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Quotes About Vanished

The sensation Ihad experienced vanished like smoke from a snuffed candle, leaving behind wisps of namelesslonging.
~ Julianne Donaldson, Edenbrooke
she didn't even have time to scream, just gave a startled "Oh!" and was gone
~ Naomi Novik
A quantity is something or nothing: if it is something, it has not yet vanished; if it is nothing, it has literally vanished. The supposition that there is an intermediate state between these two is a chimera. D'Alembert
~ Carl B. Boyer
Everyone was nowhere to be seen
~ Geoff Dyer
The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.
~ Iris Murdoch
The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomimes.
~ Iris Murdoch
History is littered with leaders and movements, now long vanished and mostly forgotten, who failed to get to the deep truths of how and why their defeat happened.
~ Clive Lewis
As the snakes swarmed her, the faded fabric vanished, leaving her with a brilliant skirt of weaving reptiles.
~ Suzanne Collins
Our country vanished from the map of Europe after the attack of the Soviet Union against Poland. That is our history. It is a very difficult one.
~ Andrzej Duda
She's gone," he answered.
~ Natalie Babbitt
Yes! - these were her realities - all else had vanished!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
It's only been 400 years since they vanished," he told me. "Why does nobody here know anything about them?
~ Charles C. Mann
Think of the fruitful impact on Europe and its descendants from contacting Asia. Imagine the effect on these places and people from a second Asia. Along with the unparalleled loss of life, that is what vanished when smallpox came ashore.
~ Charles C. Mann
San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.
~ Jack London
Depression, the war, and the ninety-percent tax rates of the forties and fifties, there was less and less of this paper, and it finally vanished as mysteriously as it had first appeared.
~ Nelson DeMille
At the end of my patient reconstruction, I had before me a kind of lesser library, a symbol of the greater, vanished one: a library made up of fragments, quotations, unfinished sentences, amputated stumps of books.
~ Umberto Eco
miraculously gone.
~ Kyle Onstott
His shadow splayed out huge before him, and his mind gleamed with ancient wars and winged beings, a mountain of melted demon bones and the city on the far side of it—a city that had vanished in the mists of time.
~ Laini Taylor
The great man is always the good man; he is always simple. He draws from, nay, lives in, the inexhaustible fountain of divine Goodness within; he inhabits the Heavenly Places; communes with the vanished great ones; lives with the Invisible: he is inspired, and breathes the airs of Heaven.
~ James Allen
The undiscovered places that are interesting to me are these places that contain bits of our disappearing history, like a ghost town.
~ Ransom Riggs
Extinct," Steep murmured. "Yes." He smiled. "Extinct, extinct, extinct." It was like a mantra:
~ Clive Barker
What stopped me was the awful feeling that if I meddled with fate in any way and tried to rationalize her fantastic gift, that gift would be snatched away like that palace on the mountain top in the Oriental tale which vanished whenever a prospective owner asked its custodian how come a strip of sunset sky was clearly visible from afar between black rock and foundation.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Apparently, a tribe of Fuegian Indians had used the place to bury their dead in warm weather, and then vanished
~ Laurence Bergreen
San Antonio, and all her crew, had vanished.
~ Laurence Bergreen