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Quotes About Disappearance

The night the day of our find, Dr. Pitt and the stone tablet disappeared!
~ Carolyn Keene
The same night that Dr. Pitt, the cipher stone, and the keys disappeared, the Tinos vanished.
~ Carolyn Keene
told someone that the slave had disappeared so quickly that he "must have gone on an underground road." Allegedly this was the origin of the nickname Underground Railroad.1
~ Catherine Clinton
I was told that my best-case scenario would likely consist of writing my memoir and then disappearing.
~ Amanda Knox
You can only choose between rich and poor. The middle class is gone.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
arriving at a mansion with another gate, low and nearly invisible inside its landscape gardening, seeming so much constructed of night itself that at sunrise it might all disappear.
~ Thomas Pynchon
During the night, Sir Stephen vanishes from the Casino. ¶ But not before telling Slothrop that his erections are of high interest to Fitzmaurice House.
~ Thomas Pynchon
The most important thing to remember is that a duplex's properties are stretchable but they aren't infinite. One minute the opening will be right there in front of you, and the next minute you won't even know where it went.
~ Kathryn Davis
Delia Siffoni já era louca, e o desaparecimento de seu filho único a deixou louca. Entrou num frenesi. Espetáculo prodigioso, cartão-postal perene, cinema transcendental, cena das cenas: ver uma louca ficar louca. É como ver Deus.[...]
~ César Aira
So when Bill showed up with a pizza, as he did periodically, Ovitz said, "We'd let him in, he'd actually have a pizza, we'd eat it, and then he'd disappear again. It was like that for years.
~ Gavin Edwards
with a goofy-looking bald baby on the cover. Dad disappeared
~ Gayle Forman
Reyes la prese in braccio con un mugolio e i due scomparvero nella fortezza; le risatine di Danika erano l'unica prova della loro presenza.
~ Gena Showalter
the same people who are taking this approach to any idea of sending an American accused to a court in the Hague are the very people demanding that my friend must be sent by Britain to the United States to disappear for the rest of his life for publishing documents which revealed war crimes.
~ George Galloway
He fixed me with his Mad Rogan stare. "If you find the connection between Brian's disappearance and the conspiracy, I want to know about it. Not eventually, not when it's convenient, but immediately." "Yes, sir. I was going to kiss you good night, but now I can't. It's against the rules to fraternize with my superior officer." "Hilarious," he said.
~ Ilona Andrews
Arland shuddered. Helen giggled again, grabbed her mug, and hurled it at the wall. The mug shattered. I looked back. Helen's seat was empty. The platter of bacon had vanished. Sean lost it and laughed.
~ Ilona Andrews
Why does one never see dead birds? How can they all hide to die?
~ Iris Murdoch
Depois de sumir, o melhor é continuar assim; voltar é se rematerializar na loucura alheia.
~ Irvine Welsh
En cierto modo —dijo— diría que hoy es más fácil desaparecer. Con la sociedad cada vez más heterogénea, con individuos cada vez más egocéntricos, ¿a quién puede importarle que una persona más, una menos, se escurra sin ruido a través de los movimientos mecánicos de una mínima participación social?
~ Isaac Asimov
How is it possible, after all, that someone should simply vanish? How can someone who lived, loved, and wrangled with God and with himself just disappear? I don't know how and in what sense but they're here. Since time is an illusion, why shouldn't everything remain?
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
El patriarcado es un juez que nos juzga por nacer y nuestro castigo es la violencia que no ves. Es femicidio. Impunidad para mi asesino. Es la desaparición. Es la violación. Y la culpa no era mía, ni dónde estaba ni como vestía. El violador eras tú.
~ Isabel Allende
The technique of "disappearing" ideological enemies, which several Latin American dictatorships were so strongly committed to during the seventies and eighties, had been practiced in Chile nearly a century earlier. None of which takes away from the fact that our democracy was the most solid, and the oldest, on the continent.
~ Isabel Allende
It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.
~ Bill Gates
'The Green Turtle' wasn't all that popular. He lasted only five issues of Blazing Comics before disappearing into obscurity.
~ Gene Luen Yang
Barry was gone in a flurry of papers blown off tabletops.
~ Susan Griffith