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Quotes About Disappearance

It was foolish to worry about time, of course. Time plays a role when there's someone to keep track of it, to depend on it. And if no-one like that remains, then time, too, stops and disappears.
~ Andrey Kurkov
Nu, jaren later, zie ik zelf hoe idioot verlegen ik was. Geen wonder dat verlegen wezens zoals wij uitsterven. Wij waren nog slechts schaduwen, die voor zonsondergang nog even lang werden om daarna helemaal te verdwijnen. Ik ben ook verdwenen. Niemand weet dat ik nog leef.
~ Andrus Kivirähk
Próbuj? wyobrazi? sobie ?wiat przed fotografi? i nie potrafi?. Prawdopodobnie w ogóle nie istnia?, nieustannie przepada?,poch?oni?ty przez ruchliwe, nienasycone zmys?y, nic z niego nie zostawa?o.
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
The exile marks the disappearance of this language (i.e., Biblical Hebrew) from everyday life and its subsequent use for literary and liturgical purposes only during the Second Temple period.
~ Angel Sáenz-Badillos
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.
~ Angela Carter
They're coming back!" she yelled. Marcia jumped, lost the Projection completely and, far away at the Port, and her crew disappeared forever, much to the shock of a lone fisherman on the harbor wall.
~ Angie Sage
If people began to notice that their cats and dogs were disappearing at an alarming rate, no one thought to link it with the sudden appearance of the Washing-up Boy's meat pie hut. And, when the ranks of the Custodian Guards were devastated by food poisoning, it was the barracks' Canteen Cook who was blamed. The Washing-up Boy prospered and never, ever, ate one of his own meat pies or sausages.
~ Angie Sage
Startled starlings flew up out of the high grass, their black whorl a little tornado that did not touch down and therefore did no damage. They disappeared like a momentary perception above Yancey's head, fanning out and flying west. Or like the clotted words crammed into a cartoon bubble.
~ Ann Beattie
disappearance. He lived alone. She had an idea that he might have been married once, but he didn't talk about children. He lived in Denby
~ Ann Cleeves
If I do cardio I'll disappear.
~ Chris Evans
When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear.
~ Portia de Rossi
I think most writers, in a sense, have this desire to disappear, to be absolutely anonymous, to be removed in some way: that comes out of the need to be a writer.
~ Sam Shepard
People think I disappear sporadically, but I just do projects that don't get international acclaim.
~ Holly Hunter
Some people you work on a film with, and then they disappear.
~ Martin Short
And when you started looking into Roger East, it was almost like he had disappeared from history.
~ Anthony LaPaglia
My father, the political dissident Jaballa Matar, disappeared from his home in Cairo in March 1990.
~ Hisham Matar
I really like sort of disappearing.
~ Katey Sagal
So much of my work has been about disappearing.
~ Glenn Ligon
People I love and trust advise me to just drop off the face of the Earth for an extended period of time, and maybe that will calm or cool things down. But my work is very public work.
~ Shaun King
It wasn't a leap for me to go from not wanting to be in my body as a teenager, not wanting to be in my house, to thinking, 'What would happen if I had disappeared?' And then going from writing scenes of angry kids to thinking a little more about the parents and what their lives would be like.
~ Charles Bock
Fue Cuny quien me descubrió, a finales de abril, que un equipo de incógnito de las Fuerzas Especiales estadounidenses y oficiales reservistas con entrenamiento especializado —incluidos un juez federal estadounidense y un abogado del distrito de Filadelfia— habían llevado a cabo la misión de hacer un seguimiento del destino de cientos de palestinos desaparecidos en Kuwait.
~ Robert Fisk
He's a writer," she said, as though this explained everything. "He's disappeared before?" "He's emotional," she said, her expression glum. "He's always going off on one, but it's been ten days and I know he's really upset but I need him home now.
~ Robert Galbraith
Estamos a desistir da liberdade (...) e com a perda da liberdade, o cowboy desaparece, juntamente com o leão da montanha e o lobo cinzento.
~ Robert James Waller
It is blasphemy to say a bit of metal has destroyed life, just as it is presumptuous to say that because life has disappeared it has been destroyed. I stood among the heaps of the dead and I knew — no, I felt that death is only a sound we make to signify the Thing we do not know. I
~ Robert Leckie