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Quotes About Disappearance

As I listened to this priest, all the presence and mystery disappeared from the room and everything returned to the relative world.
~ Adyashanti
woman could act her part with that icy unconcern. Poirot did not make his appearance the following morning,
~ Agatha Christie
She'd stayed after lab and told him, explaining about the morning sickness and the positive pregnancy test. He collected his things, said he had to go, telling her he'd call later that night. The gym teacher was in his place at the front of the classroom the next day. She never saw him again.
~ Aimee Molloy
Professor Henry Higgins: There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years!
~ Alan Jay Lerner
The total disappearance in 1946 of "East Prussia" into East Poland and the Soviet exclave of Kaliningrad was also an act of revenge and ethnic cleansing.
~ Alastair Bonnett
Dad was wiped from our lives. The day after he died, every photo of him disappeared from the house. It was as if he'd never existed. Me and my brothers weren't even allowed to go to his funeral. His death was made absolute.
~ Ant Middleton
I detest the niqab and the burka for their erasure of women and for dangerously equating piety with that disappearance - the less of you I can see, the closer you must be to God.
~ Mona Eltahawy
You spend five months filming in outer space and saving the world, and suddenly that kind of family unit and story disappears, and you come crashing back down to Earth, and you have to do your own washing... and most actors are insecure that the last job they did will be their last job ever.
~ Sam Worthington
As soon as Todd drove off the motorway it vanished from the mirror, and so did the sun across the moor.
~ Ramsey Campbell
Hackie said, Reggie Wright Jr. told him (during a conversation at the Death Row studios in Tarzana) that the case against Snoop was destroyed when important evidence disappeared from the West Los Angeles Police Station. Wright seemed to imply that one of his friends on the LAPD had taken care of this for him, Hackie recalled.
~ Randall Sullivan
We no longer belong here, we are mutants, and our only choice is to become even more mutant so that we eventually leave and disappear from this region. We are nothing now but the residue of a defeated, conquered past and we are stubbornly holding on to old creeds, a few archaic rituals and the facade of western modernity.
~ Rawi Hage
I suppose I am interested in women plus anonymity plus disappearance.
~ Rachel Kushner
What happen to the pirates we are supposed to see? Then we go down the chutes, and it's where the pirates were. But they're all gone. There is nothing but skeletons down here!
~ John Hench
They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old language of the imagination; one of the ten thousand tragedies of their disappearance would be a silencing of this speech.
~ Rebecca Solnit
about sixty-six thousand women are killed by men annually, worldwide, in the specific circumstances they began to call "femicide." Most of them are killed by lovers, husbands, former partners, seeking the most extreme form of containment, the ultimate form of erasure, silencing, disappearance. Such deaths often come after years or decades of being silenced and erased in the home, in daily life, by threat and violence. Some women get erased a little at a time, some all at once.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Told from the man's point of view, Vertigo is awash with romantic fog, but from the woman's perspective, it's about being forced to disappear— not from the top of a tower, but in everyday life as two successive lovers make her into someone else for their own ends, a common enough tragedy.
~ Rebecca Solnit
But of Marcus Felstead there was no sign.
~ Reginald Hill
I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there… I just kept getting smaller and smaller beside the pond, more and more unnoticed in the darkening summer grass until I disappeared into the 32 years that have passed since then…
~ Richard Brautigan
Constance: Tell me, what happened to William's little maid? I never saw her again after that dinner. Mary Maceachran: Elsie? -- She's gone. Constance: Oh, it's a pity, really. I thought it was a good idea to have someone in the house who is actually sorry he's dead.
~ Julian Fellowes
Why is it that we always neglect the things that matter most? This is a universal question, because through the days and weeks and months and years after your disappearance, I understood that I did not cherish you enough. I never told you that I loved you enough. I never held you enough. I never listened to you enough. You
~ Karin Slaughter
matter most? This is a universal question, because through the days and weeks and months and years after your disappearance, I understood that I did not cherish you enough. I never told you that I loved you enough. I never held you enough. I never listened to you enough. You
~ Karin Slaughter
odporovali, i když vÄ›tÅ¡inou jen slovy. Jsou to anonymní mu?edníci, kteÃ…â"¢í zmizeli - a z toho je jasnÄ› vidÄ›t, že ú?inný odpor nebyl možný. Až do roku 1939 byly pÃ…â"¢eci koncentra?ní tábory n??ím, co se týkalo jen NÄ›mc?.
~ Karl Jaspers
Then the exception would be as if he did not exist at all.
~ Karl Jaspers
This Jackson bloke was the ruddy Scarlet Pimpernel, here, there and everywhere, always one step ahead of Barry. And everywhere he went, women were disappearing.
~ Kate Atkinson