Quotes About Vanishing

I opened a newspaper this morning: a bishop was sounding off about "the shame of the German". Why doesn't anyone write a piece on "the shame of the Englishman"?---the ordinary hard-working Englishman, who since the war has had to watch his property and income vanishing like so much smoke?

I can't wait until the record label feels like it's time for my album to come out, and then just disappear.

The thing about being a photographer that's so cool is that you get to participate, but you also get to disappear. The camera is in front of your face all the time.

Time doesn't obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing.

What can I say, I'm a sucker for abandoned stuff, misplaced stuff, forgotten stuff, any old stuff which despite the light of progress and all that, still vanishes every day like shadows at noon, goings unheralded, passings unourned, well, you get the drift.

Very soon he will vanish completely in the wings of his own wordless stanza.

they watched the humans disappear. They watched them dissolve, like moving tablets in the humid air.

The horizon was beginning to charcoal. What was left of the blackness above was nothing now but a scribble, and disappearing fast.

She often wished she was pale enough to disappear altogether.

She slept a lot and didn't dream, and on most occasions she was sorry to wake up. Everything disappeared when she was asleep.

I listened to their last, gasping cries. Their vanishing words. I watched their love visions and freed them from their fear. I took them all away, and if ever there was a time I needed distraction, this was it.

Dormía mucho, sin sueños, y casi siempre se arrepentía de despertarse. Dormida, todo desaparecía.

When you read this, I shall be gone. I shall not tell you where I am going, because I do not intend ever to return.

Pero ahora sé que nuestro mundo no es nunca más permanente que una ola que se eleva sobre el océano. Cualesquiera que sean nuestras luchas y nuestras victorias, comoquiera que las padezcamos, enseguida desaparecen en la corriente, como la tinta acuosa sobre el papel.

And then, it is all one whether he has been happy or miserable; for his life was never anything more than a present moment always vanishing; and now it is over.

There was no trace of the slim, attractive girl that she had been.

Like socks in a dryer, it had vanished into the ether.

I cannot help vanishing and disappearing and dissolving. It is my foremost trait.

daug sapn? jie ateina ir v?l pradingsta išblunka iš atminties

We all laughed, but it wasn't really a room for laughter. Nor for tears, oddly, or for anger, or for any emotion other than a sort of solemnity. It was the place of absence; we were in the presence of something that had left. It was like coming to a valley where someone had once shouted, loud and joyously, and the echo of that shout had resonated between the hills and lasted a long time. But now it had vanished, and you stood on the same spot, and it was not the same.

Light-heartedness vanished as swiftly as it had come out there beneath the stars, and yet again he wished females to the devil.

passion is like sand. It disappears no matter how tightly one tries to hold on to it.

Interpretation reached such proportions that the real vanished.

He began to sink, gazing up at the fading light. Darkness swept over Flametail and the sunlight vanished forever.