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Quotes About Vanishing

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
~ Susan Sontag
The light was draining out of the room, going back through the window where it had come from.
~ Raymond Carver
It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.
~ Raymond Chandler
Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished.
~ Rebecca Solnit
When I recovered the blouse, I lost the memory, for the two were irreconcilable. It vanished in an instant, and I saw it go. Sometimes you hear of murals and miraculously preserved bodies buried, sealed, protected from light for hundreds or thousands of years. Exposed to the fresh air and light for the first time, they begin to fade, crumble, disappear. Sometimes gaining and losing are more intimately related than we like to think.
~ Rebecca Solnit
But of Marcus Felstead there was no sign.
~ Reginald Hill
Because fear is ugly and joy is beautiful, simple as that? Maybe so. Nothing so pretty as vanished fear.
~ Richard Bach
McVries opened his eyes and smiled again. The next instant He was gone.
~ Richard Bachman
And I thought of a cresting wave of water, lit by a moon, rushing past and vanishing upstream, pursued by a band of yelping students whose torchbeams criss-crossed in the dark. There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond these, there is unrest. There is great unrest.
~ Julian Barnes
deliquescent.
~ Julian Barnes
Every day stole away more of her presence, leaving in its place faint wisps of memories devoid of color, scent, and sound.
~ Karen Hawkins
National differences and antagonism between peoples are daily more and more vanishing, owing to the development of the bourgeoisie, to freedom of commerce, to the world market, to uniformity in the mode of production and in the conditions of life corresponding thereto.
~ Karl Marx
This Jackson bloke was the ruddy Scarlet Pimpernel, here, there and everywhere, always one step ahead of Barry. And everywhere he went, women were disappearing.
~ Kate Atkinson
Because that was how it happened: one moment you were there, laughing, talking, breathing, and the next you were gone. Forever. And there wasn't even a shape left in the world where you'd been, neither the trace of a smile nor the whisper of a word. Just nothing.
~ Kate Atkinson
And with a massive roar the fifth wall comes down and the house of fiction falls, taking Viola and Sunny and Bertie with it. They melt into thin air and disappear. Pouf!
~ Kate Atkinson
Beauty's of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
~ Robert Burns
All of the stories, all of the beauty, all of the songs and events of this life will vanish in the ocean of time.
~ Debasish Mridha
A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.
~ Paul Valery
In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.
~ Jeff Goodell
But is there any comfort to be found? Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
~ William Butler Yeats
Her world must be flat because she disappeared all at once rather than a bit at a time.
~ William H. Gass
sá»± bí ?n c?a ng??i nào Ä'ó xu?t hi?n và bi?n m?t trong cuá»™c ??i b?n suy cho cùng l?i ch?ng ph?i Ä'i?u gì quá bí hi?m.
~ David Gilmour
An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle and vanished.
~ Abraham Maslow
Religion is the servant of the vanishing; science, of the existence! Disappearance belongs to the chaos and the Devil; existence, to the God!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan