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Quotes About Disappearance

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~ Susan McBride
I would argue that it might be easier to endure loneliness than to endure the idea that you might disappear.
~ Susan Orlean
I was still a novice at the caped crusader super-sleuth thing, but it didn't take a degree from the Sherlock Holmes Detective School to see exactly what had happened here. Alison had come home, put her lunch in the zapper, poured herself a beverage, turned on her computer and . . . vanished off the face of the earth.
~ Suzanne Brockmann
there's no such thing as an underwear elf. Even when it goes missing, it's somewhere in the room. So make sure you find it." -- DARK OF NIGHT by Suzanne Brockmann
~ Suzanne Brockmann
I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
~ Bat for Lashes
I've reached the vanishing point without you.Here my heartache begins with your paintrying to find an unborn startin this fatal disappearanceFrom the poem 'Me with the Vanishing Point
~ Munia Khan, To Evince the Blue
History is filled with evidences that Leadership by Force cannot endure. The downfall and disappearance of "Dictators" and kings is significant. It means that people will not follow forced leadership indefinitely.
~ Napoleon Hill
He also dropped out of the scene and is no longer to be found among other flambeurs.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Unknown to all but Hester Prynne, and possessing the lock and key of her silence, he chose to withdraw his name from the roll of mankind, and, as regarded his former ties and interests, to vanish out of life as completely as if he indeed lay at the bottom of the ocean, whither rumor had long ago consigned him.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
You don't go missing in a museum- you just get temporarily absorbed by the walls.
~ Neal Shusterman
Ils rient et parlent de choses auxquelles je ne comprends rien et je reste figé au milieu. Ils m'admirent, mais seulement comme on admire une chose dont on sait qu'elle est sur le point de disparaître.
~ Neal Shusterman
Someday," I told Jan, "when they demonstrate that the world has four dimensions instead of just three, a man will be able to go for a walk and just disappear. No burial, no tears, no illusions, no heaven or hell. People will be sitting around and they'll say, 'What happened to George?' And somebody will say, 'Well, I don't know. He said he was going out for a pack of cigarettes.
~ Charles Bukowski
Scattered among the houses and fields were skeletons bleached by the sun. Slowly Dermer's crew realized they were sailing along the border of a cemetery two hundred miles long and forty miles deep. Patuxet had been hit with special force. Not a single person remained. Tisquantum's entire social world had vanished.
~ Charles C. Mann
By the time we made our way through the crowded tables and reached the hotel lobby, the two men were nowhere to be seen. Lucy pressed on to the front entrance, and we followed. On the steps in front of the hotel, we looked across the boulevard to a vast green expanse of trees, shrubs, and lawns. There was still no sign of the two men. We looked up and down the wide pavement, again without seeing either Dietrich or Richter
~ Charles Veley
We disappear as stars do, soundless, without a trace.
~ Charles Wright
Why did you leave me?How could you do that to me?That note you left didn`t explain,didn`t tell me anything,just said you were going and not coming back and not to look for you.Not look for you!How could you think i wouldn`t?Did you really believe I´d let you go like that?You must have known i would go crazy,wondering where you were,what was happening to you...you must have known what you had done to me,vanishing like that. -Domenico Alessandros
~ Charlotte Lamb
The Foxhall jaw has now been missing for many years.
~ Louis Leakey
I thought it would be really cool to play a role where I go missing and people look for me and I'm in this other world.
~ Noah Schnapp
Real prayer is a disappearance, a surrender to the embrace of deepening mystery, in darkness. In that darkness, finally, God alone is. And God is infinite surprise.
~ Tim Farrington
a girl from his English class who'd overdosed on sleeping pills after learning of the disappearance of her identical twin.
~ Tom Perrotta
No, no, no... you've got it all wrong... you can't act death. The fact of it is nothing to do with seeing it happen ---it's not gasps and blood and falling about---that isn't what makes it death. It's just a man failing to reappear, that's all ---now you see him, now you don't, that the only thing that's real: here one minute and gone the next and never coming back---an exit, unobtrusive and unannounced, a disappearance gathering weight as it goes on, until, finally, it is heavy with death.
~ Tom Stoppard
The disappearance of so many regimes so closely bound to a revolutionary narrative marked the death knell of a 200-year promise of radical progress.
~ Tony Judt
Popular culture would never have achieved such a high degree of influence had it not been for the disappearance of family culture and Folk culture. With our social revolution, there would have been no cultural revolution. Without age0segregated high schools and the disappearance of the family economy, there would have been no Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, or Katy Perry.
~ Kevin Swanson
Nobody in Pixie Hollow has seen her.
~ Kiki Thorpe