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Quotes About Disappearance

He was taken to hospital. I never saw him again, and he never opened his mouth.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Todos los que tenían una cuenta de ahorro, una hipoteca o cualquier otro tipo de inversión vieron cómo éstas desaparecían de la noche a la mañana. Pronto dejó de importar si se trataba de una calderilla ahorrada o de un gran capital. Todo se esfumó.
~ Sebastian Haffner
Los ahuyentó, ni siquiera los expulsó, pues ya ante el primer indicio de amenaza y espanto todos, empezando por el káiser, desaparecieron sin hacer el más mínimo ruido ni dejar el menor rastro, más o menos como, más adelante, entre 1932 y 1933, lo harían los dirigentes de la República. Los políticos alemanes, empezando por los de derechas hasta llegar a los de izquierdas, tienen muy mal perder.
~ Sebastian Haffner
Thousands of husbands disappeared in those weeks. Sons as young as twelve. Brothers. Friends. What better way to remake society, my mother thought, than to eliminate the teachers and principals, the students, the lawyers and doctors—truly, anybody who had an opinion and a voice? Beyond the river, execution grounds, field after field irrigated with blood, waited to be discovered. Buildings would crush the bones.
~ Shawna Yang Ryan
I knew that if I said a single word, I would burst into tears, as I always did, always had, my entire life, whenever anything difficult had to be discussed. It always was too scary; a threat I had felt since childhood that at any moment a relationship might disappear with a poof because of something little I had done or said.
~ Sheila Heti
There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne.
~ Harriet Martineau
something?" "Relax," Lizzie said. "Granny never mentioned it. But she kept a scrapbook. She clipped all the newspaper articles about the disappearance of … what was his name again?" "Russell Strickland." As Josephine whispered the name, she
~ Mary Kay Andrews
Hannah] Arendt wrote about the subjugation of public space - in effect the disappearance of public space, which, by depriving a person of boundaries and agency, rendered him profoundly lonely.
~ Masha Gessen
Perché invero che cosa c'è da sapere su chi scompare? Che cosa c'è da sapere su chi è diventato invisibile? Che cosa c'è da sapere su chi sta sanguinando con la bocca piena di foglie scure?
~ Mats Wahl
And then the surface beneath us just went away
~ Maureen Johnson
In government-controlled Syria, the broken land over which Bashar al-Assad presided as nominal victor, there was no sign that the regime would cease the policies of repression and violence that had provoked the original uprising. In July 2018, the government issued death certificates for sixty thousand people who had simply disappeared in government detention.
~ Azadeh Moaveni
They jealous 'cause you got the night in you. Some people got night in 'em, some got morning, others, like me and your mama, got dusk. But it's only them that's got night can become invisible. People what got night in 'em can step into the dark and poof—disappear! Go any old where they want. Do anything. Ride them stars up there, like as not.
~ Barbara Neely
This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
~ Basho Matsuo
The ring rolled down the gutter and disappeared into a sewer grate, and there it remained for a long, long time. But not forever. In Derry, things that disappear into the sewer system have a way – an often unpleasant one – of turning up.
~ Stephen King
The Mahaparinirvana Sutra says, "All things are impermanent. This is the law of appearing and disappearing. When appearing and disappearing disappear, then this stillness is bliss.
~ Stephen Mitchell
Qualunque sia il caso, lei è sparita dalla mia vita. È il prezzo che ho dovuto pagare per aver flirtato romanticamente con l'apocalisse. Sono stato così sciocco da credere di poter giocare con il caos, mentre era il caos a giocare con me.
~ Steve Erickson
Jemu watched his father disappear. He didn't throw the coconut and he didn't cry. Never again would he know love for another human being that wasn't adulterated by another, contradictory emotion.
~ Kiran Desai
That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.
~ Jonathan Tropper
Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.
~ Joseph Heller
disappearance.
~ Erin Hunter
The forest had disappeared. He was inside a hot and airless kitchen, curled in his bed. Moonlight filtered through the window, casting shadows on the smooth, hard floor. The noise had been the rattle of hard, dried pellets of food as they were tipped into his dish. Rusty had been dreaming.
~ Erin Hunter
It is often said that the more spiritual a person becomes, the more unassuming they are. Eventually, they vanish entirely.
~ Eugene Thacker
Then a month after Bernard's sixteenth birthday, Sir Aubrey came down to breakfast, and so did Dudley and so did Joan. They helped themselves to kedgeree and scrambled eggs and kidneys and bacon. Then Sir Aubrey rang for the footman to bring fresh coffee and said, "Where's Bernard? The wretched boy is late again." But Bernard wasn't late--he was gone, and nobody from Westwood ever set eyes on him again.
~ Eva Ibbotson
As a seven-year-old, I remember when Etan Patz disappeared and was immortalized as the first missing-child face on a milk carton.
~ Chelsea Cain