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Quotes About Vanishing

It was usually a case of heir today, gone tomorrow.
~ Terry Pratchett
Based on the timing, the circumstances. In July 1970, William Maitland vanished from the face of the earth. In August of the same year, we heard the first reports of a foreign pilot flying for the enemy. Running weapons and gold.
~ Tess Gerritsen
I don't like magic - but I have been known to make guys disappear.
~ Mr. T
I stared at him, unable to believe this was happening. That he could just disappear, along with everything rich and strange he'd brought into my life. Vanished, like magic.
~ Karen Chance
her naked today, sort of? Is he reading my mind? Mentally, I mutter blah, blah, blah, over and over. "Shut the hell up and listen to me. We were in bed and she vanished. There one instant, then gone. Taken from inside Chester's, which is impossible. I've got the club so heavily warded, even I have a difficult time getting past them, in beast form.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Beverly once read a science magazine article about bioluminescence, the natural glow emitted by organisms like fireflies and jellyfish, but she knows the dead also give off a strange illumination, a phosphor that can permanently damage the eyes of the living. Necroluminescence - the light of the vanished. A hindsight produced by the departed body. Your failings backlit by the death of your loved ones.
~ Karen Russell
elephant vanish from the
~ Karl Shaw
No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
It is clear that life naturally ends, and when the end comes, fear vanishes, because fear is itself a manifestation of life. On losing awareness and consciousness, life abruptly ends, and there can be no further thinking and no further meaning.
~ Gao Xingjian
With all the training thrown to the wind, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere, anybody knows where, the art of Jeet Kune Do attains its perfection.
~ Bruce Lee
I sneezed and she was gone.
~ Bryan Costales
The crisis of the West is a collapsing culture and vanishing peoples, as a Third World that grows by 100 million people, the equivalent of a new Mexico, every 18 months, mounts the greatest invasion in history of the world. If we do not shake off our paralysis, the West comes to an end.
~ buchanan pat ii
Gone?—gone? What means that little word?—What
~ Herman Melville
Slowly it floats more and more away
~ Herman Melville
They were here, and then they weren't, and that was all there was.
~ Iain Banks
Kate& Derek "No, Kate, you don't understand. He vanished. He was there one moment and then he was gone." I couldn't resist. "Like a ninja. In a puff of smoke.
~ Ilona Andrews
Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?
~ Amy Tan
The world vanished inside a shrieking, whirling ochre haze. Stones and gravel pelted them, drawing flinches from the stallion and grunts of pain from Kalam.
~ Steven Erikson
He will behave now as he hopes everyone will someday behave. Because civilization isn't a thing that you build and then there it is, you have it forever. It needs to be built constantly, re-created daily. It vanishes far more quickly than he ever would have thought possible. And if he wishes to live, he must do what he can to prevent the world he wants to live in from fading away. As long as there's war, life is a preventative measure.
~ Steven Galloway
I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.
~ Steven Wright
How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
~ Steven Wright
I washed a sock. Then I put it in the dryer. When I took it out, it was gone.
~ Steven Wright
When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?
~ Steven Wright
The Khaster that should have been had disappeared deep inside him.
~ Storm Constantine