Quotes About Disappearance

It's only now, in hindsight, that I think she saw her own disappearance as a quality to be desired. That perhaps she needed, finally, to live unobserved.

The police soon dismissed the notion that she'd simply run away. There was no reason to run away, her mother assured them, and she had not packed the things that would make such an escape successful

the feeling that I was becoming no one at all

Now you go into oblivion.

Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget...

No human being, particularly a young, attractive woman, is so alone that there is no one to miss her when she disappears.

Je n'imaginais pas pouvoir aimer comme je l'ai aimée. J'ai cru à elle comme on croit à un rêve. Quand il s'est évanoui, j'ai disparu avec lui.

Cómo había podido desaparecer todo ese amor? Y, sobre todo, ¿adónde se había ido? Quizá el amor sea como una sombra, alguien lo pisa y se lo lleva puesto. A lo mejor demasiada luz es peligrosa para el amor, o quizá sea al revés, sin luz la sombra del amor se desvanece y termina por desaparecer.

Wilfrid then disappears for over a decade.

We fear more than the loss of anything else the disappearance of possessions that have remained outside ourselves, because our hearts have not taken possession of them.

Françoise was constantly disappearing. The fact was that she had ordered herself a mourning dress, and did not wish to keep her dressmaker waiting. In the lives of most women, everything, even the greatest sorrow, resolves itself into a question of 'trying-on.

From time immemorial it has been one of the deepest longings of the human heart to strain against the erosion of one's life, to find a way of living and being that manages to find some stable ground within time, a place from where something eternal can be harvested from our disappearance. This is what all art strives for: the creation of a living permanence.

The art of disappearing certainly has its own kind of value. In a strange way, in modern society we seem to be inhabiting the world of absence more than presence through the whole world of technology and virtual reality. Very often it seems that the driven nature of contemporary society is turning us into the ultimate harvesters of absence, that is, ghosts in our own lives.

The bartender took another bite of the sandwich, chewed, then said, through the masticated bread and egg, "Yeah, the Minneapolis cops already been here. They're looking for him, too. He was here last night, pretty late, then he went away. Haven't seen him since.

Where is Ivan?

If every single man and woman, child and baby, acts and conducts itself in a known pattern and breaks no walls and differs with no one and experiments in no way and is not sick and does not endanger the ease and peace of mind or steady unbroken flow of the town, then that unit can disappear and never be heard of.

With the evening the air was so full of their song that it was a kind of roaring silence. It was a veil, a background, and its sudden disappearance, as after a clap of thunder, was a shocking thing…In their millions the frog songs seemed to have a beat and a cadence, and perhaps it is the ears' function to do this just as it is the eyes' business to make stars twinkle.

Our treasured and nostalgic picture of the village general store, the cracker-barrel store where an informed yeomanry gather to express opinions and formulate the national character, is very rapidly disappearing. People who once held family fortresses against wind and weather, against scourges of frost and drought and insect enemies, no cluster against the busy breast of the big town. (p 56)

Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves any more, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coattails.

She probably fell asleep and was washed away by the tortoise waves!"-Arista

The Toyota plowed headlong into the boy. But there was no impact. No screams, no blood, no bending metal.The boy simply dematerialized in a swirl of white light.

What scared me the most was when my father would put on the gasmask. His face would disappear... This was not a human being at all.

He has departed, withdrawn, gone away, broken out.

One of the things about totalitarianism is that people disappear, and you can't find out what happened to them.