Quotes About Vanishing

The air shuddered with the beginning of absence.

Tus ojos verdes son una cámara de reducción. Si los miro lo suficiente, me volveré pequeña como mi propio reflejo, me convertiré en un punto y, después, me desvaneceré.

When I disappear, I will disappear; there'll be nothing left.

Someone who is an artist can say, 'I can create and can make what I create disappear.'

It wasn't necessarily my choice to disappear.

And when you started looking into Roger East, it was almost like he had disappeared from history.

I really like sort of disappearing.

So much of my work has been about disappearing.

Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.

But none of us were ever quite the same afterward," said Dr. Gupta quietly. "One does not expect a friend to vanish into thin air without leaving a single trace behind them. There is something—uncanny about it.

In vanishing, Margot Bamborough had assumed in Strike's mind the insubstantiality of a wraith, as though it had always been predestined that she would one day disperse into the rainy dusk, never to return.

Why is it that, as we lose our loveliness, the sheen of youth, we lose possibility as well? We acquire, but more is vanished than is given, and nothing makes up for the loss of the swallows at the Sherry, or the Victoria diamond, or the nights at Area when your booted feet ground the glass phials of amyl nitrate into the dance floor.

He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.

It's the sight of the dead...the teasing glimpse of what comes when you are no one.

That's what's so miraculous about the city: each person's bearing and behavior vanish among these thousand sorts, observations are fleeting, judgements swift, and forgetting inevitable.

To select only monuments supresses at one stroke the reality of the land and that of its people, it accounts for nothing of the present, that is, nothing historical, and as a consequence, the monuments themselves become undecipherable, therefore senseless. What is to be seen is thus constantly in the process of vanishing, and the Guide becomes, through an operation common to all mystifications, the very opposite of what it advertises, an agent of blindness.

For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. —JAMES 4:14

13. Mañana habrá desaparecido (Gone Tomorrow)

at the end of the day, the people left behind matter as much as the ones who are missing. We mourn the ones we've lost, but we agonize over the pieces of ourselves they took with them. The identities we'll never have again. The emotions we're certain we'll never feel again. The sense of our own selves, becoming undone and disappearing just as completely and suddenly as those who vanished.

Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes, ask them who they are and they will offer you a wallet or a child.

My spiritual goal is to one day walk into God and disappear.

Cómo es el fin del mundo? -le preguntó Baldabiou. -Invisible.

Estás a punto de desvanecerte, y entonces yo me digo tienes que pensar en algo, tienes que mantenerte aferrada a un pensamiento, si consigo hacerme pequeña en ese pensamiento después todo pasará, sólo hay que resistir, pero lo cierto es que…, eso es de verdad el horror…, lo cierto es que ya no hay pensamientos, en ninguna parte en tu interior, ya no queda ni un pensamiento sino sólo sensaciones.

No matter what precautions were taken, socks disappeared into a Bermuda Triangle for socks, a swirling vortex that swallowed one sock at a time, leaving its partner stranded.