Quotes About Vanishing

very small and it will disappear. This

Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.

You didn't have to say it was gone. It was gone before it got outta here. It was going that fast.

What? Okay, back up. How in the hell do you 'turn up missing'?

I parked in the tow-away zone, and when I got back, the entire neighborhood was gone.

Follow a shadow, it still flies you.

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 unmourned, well, you get the drift. As a counselor once told me -a counselor for Disaffected Yought, I might add: "You like that crap because it reminds you of you." Couldn't of said it better or put it more bluntly. Don't even disagree with it either.

Gli passò per la testa, in quei omenti, che anche lui avrebbe potuto sparire nel nulla. Si trattava solo di capire che forma dare a quel nulla.

She watched until it became an indistinct dot in the sky.

What has faded, is already lost

Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.

The letters fading like retreating strangers in a fog.

she too faded away like the sun that had just been swallowed by the horizon

It became clear to me how men die. I saw that it is not so hard. Or easy. It is nothing. One just starts living less and less, being less and less, thinking, feeling and knowing less and less. The rich flow of life dries up, and only a thin thread of uncertain consciousness remains, more and more meager, more and more insignificant. And then nothing happens, there is not anything, there is nothing. And nothing matters—it is all the same.

How was it, Cory kept thinking, that when a person died they were no longer anywhere? You could search the entire world and never find them. It was one thing for a body to stop working and be carted away under a sheet; it was another thing for the sense of that person to evaporate. The textural and indisputable sense, as strong but as hard to pinpoint as a gas.

Without quite noticing it, I had slid downward to a place where, as Styron put it, "all sense of hope had vanished, along with the idea of a futurity.

Here is the fate of the man: To appear and to disappear!

Religion is the servant of the vanishing; science, of the existence! Disappearance belongs to the chaos and the Devil; existence, to the God!

The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.

It melted into the shadows. It had left no tracks; only a branch,

All happiness has vanished

silver fork (our crest, a fox rampant, almost handled and washed away

In other words you disappear, you become one with your words, not separate, and when you put your pen down, the you who was writing is gone.

in twenty seconds nothing was to be seen of her except floating fragments;