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Quotes About Disappearance

Very happy or unhappy, people disappear.
~ Amanda Craig, A Vicious Circle
I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.
~ Sarah Vowell
We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.
~ Oscar Romero
Magicians disappear all the time, but as soon as a regular person does it, everyone is all scared. "Tom's gone!" "Is he a magician?" "No." "Then let's print up some flyers!"
~ Mitch Hedberg
Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing.
~ C.J. Cherryh, Deceiver
That would be cool if the earth's crust was made out of graham cracker. It would disappear just like the ozone layer, but for completely different reasons.
~ Mitch Hedberg
I spilled spot remover on my dog now he's gone.
~ Steven Wright
Marcus and Ellie exchanged a worried look and examined the bag again. Sure enough, the gold was gone.
~ Justin Swapp, The Magic Shop
How would you like it if someone you cared about just disappeared on you?
~ Jami Attenberg
was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis . . . .
~ Jan Karon
Basta con que alguien salga por una puerta y desaparezca para que su imagen empiece a difuminarse, basta con dejar de ver para ya no ver claro, o no ver nada; y con oír pasa lo mismo, y no digamos con el tacto.
~ Javier Marías
Si desaparecemos no se notará nuestra falta, el hueco será rellenado sin solución de continuidad, como un tejido que se regenera rápido.
~ Javier Marías
Pero, en estos tiempos, es como si el mundo desapareciera cada día. De vez en cuando es un tiempo que no existe. Es inútil apostar por él. Durante más de dos años yo aposté, con cuerpo de perdida y dignidad de caballero, por un tiempo inexistente. No me quejo. No me arrepiento. Puse algo de dinero. Un gramo de locura. Un montón de afecto. Quizás amor. - Nazdrave! Afortunadamente, el amor ya no es lo que era.
~ Eduardo Mendicutti
La incomunicación es la mejor manera para que algo que existía deje de existir.
~ Alberto Fuguet
but the image of a "fatal" disappearance of the "vanishing American" allows Indian ancestry - as opposed to African American "blood" - to function as nostalgia and pride rather than shame. Somehow, by claiming the Indians as ancestors, whites can legitimate as lawful inheritance the taking of their land.
~ Alessandro Portelli
IT HAPPENED SO QUICKLY, so unexpectedly, that Little Jon's cry was almost instantly cut short as the blackness closed over him.
~ Alexander Key
He met the Beans on the trail, and led them on to where his people waited. They all carried glowing lights that made a radiance in the forest. But presently, one by one, the lights vanished. The forest grew still again, and empty save for a wandering doe and her fawn. The
~ Alexander Key
If the president of the college had asked me what I thought about Dewey McLean, I'd say he's a weak sister. I thought he'd been knocked out of the ball game and had just disappeared, because nobody invites him to conferences anymore.
~ Luis Walter Alvarez
It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well.
~ Diane Keaton
That's what happens when people take away their love, Bea. It makes you smaller. Sometimes, it makes you disappear.
~ Rebecca Stead
But of Marcus Felstead there was no sign. Pascoe had pulled into the Club car park close behind the Evanses' car. He had not got out immediately, but sat and watched the broad Welshman and his wife pick their way carefully over the already frosted surface towards the club-house.
~ Reginald Hill
It is almost as if the Greeks, at a time when they were about to disappear from history, wished to avenge themselves for their own incomprehension by imposing on a whole section of mankind the limitations of their own mental horizons.
~ Rene Guenon
When you are grateful to be the person in the mirror, feelings of dissatisfaction, discontentment, disappointment, or I'm-not-good-enough completely disappear. And with them, every dissatisfying, discontenting, and disappointing circumstance in your life magically disappears too.
~ Rhonda Byrne
Electra droned
~ Ric Gillespie