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Quotes About Disappearance

People didn't just disappear without a trace. Not Willa Luce, and most certainly not boring old Alice Washburne, who had two girls at home, chickens to feed, and only ventured to town two days each week: to sell eggs and knitting at the farmers' market on Saturday mornings, and to go grocery shopping each Wednesday, when the Shop and Save had double-coupon day.
~ Jennifer McMahon
It's only when I'm awake that I think about dying. I love the thrill of impending, weightless doom Someday. You are all the colours in one, at full brightness. ..the ones who didn't make it and never had a chance. I'm disappearing. Maybe I'm already gone. It's not what you take. It's what you leave.
~ Jennifer Niven
And for a long time I look at myself in the bathroom mirror, and I actually disappear before my eyes. I am disappearing. Maybe I'm already gone.
~ Jennifer Niven
If we could truly see ourselves the way others see us we'd disappear on the spot.
~ Émile Michel Cioran
Mais il avait oublié l'inventaire, il ne voyait pas son empire, ces magasins crevant de richesses. Tout avait disparu, les victoires bruyantes d'hier, la fortune colossale de demain. D'un regard désespéré, il suivait Denise, et quand elle eut passé la porte, il n'y eut plus rien, la maison devint noire.
~ Émile Zola
This sounded the death knell of small family businesses, soon to be followed by the disappearance of the individual entrepreneur, gobbled up one by one by the increasingly hungry ogre of capitalism, and drowned by the rising tide of large companies.
~ Émile Zola
We lost the crickets.
~ Eoin Colfer
Les religions commencent divines, elles finissent humaines. De manière générale, les institutions, comme les civilisations, foncent vers leur disparition, car le temps les vide. En vieillissant, la forme prend plus d'importance que le fond, le contenant compte davantage que le contenu. Ce qu'on appelle la décadence.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
I was disappearing here in this world, which in some way meant I was reappearing somewhere else. I was whole somewhere else. I was free somewhere else. That thought was comforting. The parallel me had never been raped. Had never been touched. Had never been so obscenely violated. The parallel me had no restrictions. Still enjoyed sunlight. The parallel me had a future that couldn't be darkened by his past.
~ Amber Tamblyn
We interrupt this program for breaking news: Has anyone seen this nobody?
~ Amber Tamblyn
Perhaps it makes sense that a creature that doesn't get ill and has few enemies among its neighbors would also live agelessly and die without explanation or cause--would simply vanish without a trace.
~ Amy Stewart
Lo sai perchè su di te soffia il ghibli? Perchè tu sei il deserto. Il vento fa scomparire le orme appena stampate sul tuo corpo. Non credere che queste mie parole siano dettate da rancore, gelosia o altro. Nascono solo dal bene che ti ho voluto. Ti auguro non che tu possa trovare la felicità, ma che nel tuo deserto possa accadere il miracolo di un'oasi. Addio, Laura
~ Andrea Camilleri
It was all over: dead. He had no idea, where Frankie had gone. But what was worse, he was everywhere.
~ Andrew Holleran
The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it exists for three weeks, and then it disappears into thin air.
~ Isabel Allende
I've been on a show before where I was on a billboard and then, after like three or four weeks, they took the billboard down and replaced it with nothing. Took my face down and put a white board up.
~ Matthew Perry
It's Jill," said Eddie grimly. "She's missing.
~ Richelle Mead
Chapter Twelve Ryker tried to formulate a possible scenario around the Darling girls disappearance, but there were too many missing
~ Rita Herron
What's become of WaringSince he gave us all the slip?
~ Robert Browning
Lord Luc, of course, was brother to Tigraine, then the Daughter-Heir of Andor, and he vanished in the Blight. Who Isam is, or what he has to do with Luc, I do not know, however." "We
~ Robert Jordan
Man is the only animal species capable of conceiving the notion of his own disappearance, and the only one capable of the despair that notion brings. What a strange race: so savagely determined to destroy itself, so savagely intent on preserving itself.
~ Robert Merle
Happiness, after all, depends for the most part not on one's ability to resolve contradictions but on making them disappear, the way the gaps between trees disappear when we look down a long avenue of them.
~ Robert Musil
Presenciar o mistério da vida era suficientemente impressionante para evitar pensar na morte, em qualquer uma das suas manifestações: o abandono, a perda, o desaparecimento. Não, a única coisa que o seu espírito e o seu coração desejavam era festejar a vida.
~ Laura Esquivel
This is the truth: You lose some things because you didn't see the darkness rushing toward you. Some things disappear because it all snuck up on you so quickly and quietly, and you weren't paying attention. Okay. But once in a while a loss is preventable. You can stop it. And if you don't, you are to blame. The trick is knowing which is which.
~ Lauren Fox
It's sad when you see someone do really well and then you just don't hear about them anymore.
~ Debbie Reynolds