All good things vanish in less than a day, Peace, plenty…

“He wants to tell her that when things vanish they become something else, in death we rise again in the blades of grass, the…

— Anthony Doerr

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

— Marcus Aurelius

“It's not just that things vanish--but once they vanish, the memory of them vanishes as well. Dark areas form in the brain, and unless…

— Paul Auster

I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish.

— Doris Lessing

For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.

— Thomas Jefferson

Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly into the mist. And all that remains is…

— Haruki Murakami

But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the…

— Dave Eggers

No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects;…

— Benjamin Robbins Curtis

It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land…

— Yasmina Khadra

The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only…

— Aristotle

Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all…

— Sam Keen

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

— Mick Farren

I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit…

— Clive Barker

One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or…

— Susan Sontag