Disappearance Quotes

90 Disappearance quotes by 79 unique authors

The masters thought they were loved until one day one of their favorites farted loudly while serving dinner and the next day was gone. The… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if… — Garrett Hardin
Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States. — Jerzy Kosinski
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual,… — Roberto Burle Marx
They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are… — Rebecca Solnit
Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared… — Karl Popper
The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when… — Mark Twain
A hundred percent of marriages end in divorce, disappearance or death. — Steve Aylett
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. — Stanley Milgram
News of Daniel's disappearance does not alarm me as it might have done a week ago. Given recent events, very little alarms me as it… — Patricia C. Wrede
When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest… — Jodi Picoult
...despite all this, it is still hard to admit that there is no one more English than the Indian, no one more Indian than the… — Zadie Smith
Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no… — Roland Barthes
Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
...when a phone call competes for attention with a real-world conversation, it wins. Everyone knows the distinctive high-and-dry feeling of being abandoned for a phone… — Lynne Truss
The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its leaders, is hard to miss… — David F. Wells
If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up… — Herbert Marcuse
Beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It’s the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you see both… — Muriel Barbery
Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If… — Alejandro Jodorowsky
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them. — Simone Weil
We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our… — Alain de Botton
Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself. — Alain de Botton
Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all. — Andrew Murray
The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene — Allen Ginsberg

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