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Quotes About Vanished

I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.
~ Mary Shelley
I had desired it with an ardor that far exceeded moderation, but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.
~ Mary Shelley
Funny, one somehow imagines her snuffing quietly out now, the way the moon would if the sun vanished.
~ Mary Stewart
It rang and it rand and it rang. I looked at the screen one last time, then at Stuart, and then I reached my arm back and threw the phone as hard as I could (sadly, not that far), and it vanished into the snow. The eight-year-olds, who were truly fascinated with our every move at this point, chased after it. 'Lost it,' I said. 'Whoops.
~ Maureen Johnson
It was strange, she thought, to obtain news by means of nothing but denials, as if existence had ceased, facts had vanished and only the frantic negatives uttered by officials and columnists gave any clue to the reality they were denying.
~ Ayn Rand
the porch was empty. They had gone back inside. It was as if the Overlook had swallowed them.
~ Stephen King
As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew.
~ Alfred de Musset
Not dead. Not injured. Just . . . gone.
~ Erin Hunter
disappearance.
~ Erin Hunter
The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do deep research to make the thought and utterances of lost time credible.
~ Simon Schama
And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished, for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
The missing girl—there had been unceasing news reports, always flashing to that achingly ordinary school portrait of the vanished teen, you know the one, with the rainbow-swirl background, the girl's hair too straight, her smile too self-conscious, then a quick cut to the worried parents on the front lawn, microphones surrounding them, Mom silently tearful, Dad reading a statement with quivering lip—that girl, that missing girl had just walked past Edna Skylar.
~ Harlan Coben
Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.
~ Wilfred Burchett
With the passing of its last marcher, Rube Marquard, the parade vanished into the mists of time, leaving in its wake only memories of the men and deeds gone by.
~ Maury Klein
Like us, those vanished warriors planted their standards in the sands of their own self-summoned extinction.
~ Steven Pressfield
The river Guadalquivir Flows between oranges and olives The two rivers of Granada Descend from the snow to the wheat Oh my love! Who went and never returned The river Guadalquivir Has beards of maroon The two rivers of Granada One a cry the other blood Oh my love! Who vanished into thin air
~ Federico García-Lorca
To think that each skull once had skin and flesh and was stuffed with gray matter—in varying quantities—teeming with thoughts of food and sex and dominance. All now vanished.
~ Haruki Murakami
pages—"it appears a facility has disappeared. More importantly, the organization that was housed in the facility has disappeared." "What organization?" the President asked. The Keep looked up from the papers. "The Time Patrol.
~ Bob Mayer
It was as if a complex, sophisticated society of fifteen million people simply walked away from their lives one day and never came back, leaving nothing but deserted cities and abandoned architectural masterpieces in their wake.
~ Sylvia Browne
The love had just vanished. We're still friendly.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Killed time is an abortion, life that never gets lived, gone, just gone.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Necroluminescence--the light of the vanished. A hinnsight produced by the departed's body. Your failings backlit by the death of your loved ones.
~ Karen Russell
Necroluminescence--the light of the vanished. A hindsight produced by the departed's body. Your failings backlit by the death of your loved ones.
~ Karen Russell
The broken things, forgotten things... and missing things.
~ Bruce Whatley