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Quotes About Disappeared

Mark Spitz didn't ask about Harry. You never asked about the characters that disappeared from a Last Night story. You knew the answer. The plague had a knack for narrative closure.
~ Colson Whitehead
I'm a gamer, and I became obsessed with 'Resident Evil.' I played the first two games back to back. It took me, like, 10 days. I disappeared from view. Stayed in my apartment. Didn't return anyone's calls. After 10 days, I emerged with 10 days' worth of stubble and kind of bloodshot eyes going, 'I love this! We have to turn it into a movie.'
~ Paul W. S. Anderson
My pleasures disappeared with my vices.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Public art is ephemeral by nature. Google 's new project not only catalogs an artist's work but archives it and allows people to see the art long after it has disappeared.
~ Shepard Fairey
I did get offers from Hollywood, but they were all scripts with monsters in them. If I had done them, I would have disappeared. I would have come back to France anyway, and I would have had to start all over again and lost a lot of time.
~ Carole Bouquet
I have an affinity for the old Seattle coffee shops, places like the Green Onion and the Copper Kettle, the classic kind of coffee bar - little places that served breakfast, lunch and dinner and have pretty much disappeared.
~ Tom Douglas
It is a question with me still, and the answer has altogether disappeared from the world.
~ Wendell Berry
this was a "dirty war" and it "disappeared" some 30,000 people during the war of 1936–39.
~ Helen Graham
These dead were in some regards the antithesis of the Republican disappeared in that their deaths were, from the start, supercharged with state symbolism and the disinterred bodies of many of them (such as those at Paracuellos, but there are many other examples) were made highly visible in the 1940s as part of a ceremonial process of state "sanctification".
~ Helen Graham
Rome fell silently to ruins. A New city rose in its place, and it was too erased by emptiness. Like phantom Giants, cities, kingdoms, and countries swiftly fell and disappeared into emptiness-- swallowed up in the black maw of the Infinite
~ Leonid Andreyev
The body was there, the woman inside disappeared.
~ Jeanette Winterson
The stigma that used to exist many years ago, that actors from film don't do television, seems to have disappeared. That camera doesn't know it's a TV camera... or even a streaming camera. It's just a camera.
~ Kevin Spacey
What happened at the battle was just like magic! The Cronies disappeared, but it wasn't tragic. One by one they popped far away. Where they went, nobody can say!
~ Unknown
There was a SkyWing!" Winter snarled. "It attacked me and stole my prey and then disapp — oh, SEAL GUTS!
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Good talent needs a showcase to prove its worth.There are many cases across the world across arts where good and talented artists have disappeared bcz no one saw them.
~ Unknown
The cause of quarrel had disappeared on paper at the same time as the fighting all over Europe began.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Research shows that shaming fat folks into thinness doesn't work. And come on if it did, most of the fat women in the world would have probably disappeared by now
~ Jennifer Weiner
In the cities the birds are forgotten among other things but then one could say that the cities are made of absences of what disappeared so they could be there
~ W.S. Merwin
We the survivors are not the true witnesses. The true witnesses, those in possession of the unspeakable truth are the drowned, the dead, the disappeared.
~ Primo Levi
All of this while I left lifted by a strange new medium, a strange element--I now tell you that I was newly buoyant in a brighter life. In the midst of a hymn, God had disappeared. It was like waking from a nightmare in which I'd been paralyzed. Like discovering that gravity itself had been only a bad dream.
~ Denis Johnson
Sloth kept him in bed awhile. Restlessness drove him downstairs to the tiny court behind his kitchen, where the sun made more mist. Under its warmth everything gave off ghosts. They work from the bricks, rose with a deep reluctance, disappeared.
~ Denis Johnson
The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
~ Balthus
Time, it covered over everything eventually. Events, people, memory. Chiniquy had disappeared beneath Time.
~ Louise Penny
Quite by chance, her talk of ghosts comes on the very day the book I am in the middle of reading has completely disappeared, only to be replaced by a novella by Henry James.
~ Diane Setterfield