Quotes About Vanishing

ancestors, perhaps as friends, perhaps as foes—we do not know. Nor again do we know why they vanished, although given our species' dismal record as responsible stewards of nature, it's a decent bet that we drove them to extinction.

Time is a transparent medium. People and cities arise out of it, move through it and disappear back into it. It is time that brings them and time that takes them away.

The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit; a star gleaming in our inward night.

By the grace of God, may we all be vanishing stars.

Where does the flame of a candle go after is faded?

Beautiful men and women with distorted shadows came and scorched their handprints onto doors before vanishing skyward, drafts of heat billowing behind them with the whumph of unseen wings. Here and there, feathers fell, and they were like tufts of white fire, disintegrating to ash as soon as they touched the ground.

To be so tired was like evaporating. Water to vapor. Flesh to ghost. Bit by bit, from the surface inward, you feel yourself begin to disappear, or at least to be translated into another state--from a tangible one, blood and spirit, to a kind of lost and drifting mist.

In great ceremony they entered the prison. They were never to be seen again.

She started disappearing as soon as she was born. Just to get away from you.

How to keep—is there any any, is there none such, nowhere known some, bow or brooch or braid or brace, lace, latch or catch or key to keepBack beauty, keep it, beauty, beauty, beauty… from vanishing away?

It is rescue work, this snatching of vanishing phases of turbulence, disguised in fair words, out of the native obscurity into a light where the struggling forms may be seen, seized upon, endowed with the only possible form of permanence in this world of relative values—the permanence of memory. —JOSEPH CONRAD

Just like a character in a novel, he disappeared suddenly, without leaving the slightest trace behind.

El trabajo de hombre es efímero y se desvanece como la espuma del mar... Así se desvaneció nuestra civilización grandiosa y colosal.

Spiritually we need to recognize the importance of wanting less in our lives, to the point that we want to disappear.

Like dew I was born Like dew I vanish ..and all that I have ever done Is but a dream Within a dream

I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.

I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished.

In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.

There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.

All things that have been in this world, all things that are or will be in it, have to vanish: we have our sad farewell to give them.

Now the soft-voiced gentle woman of my reverent worship has all but vanished.

Look up at the stars and you're gone.

Liberdade é perder toda a esperança... Você olha para uma estrela e desaparece dentro dela.