Disappearance Quotes
90 Disappearance quotes by 79 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A hundred percent of marriages end in divorce, disappearance or death.
— Steve Aylett
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The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
— Stanley Milgram
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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
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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
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...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
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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
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Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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...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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
— Simone Weil
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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
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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
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Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.
— Andrew Murray
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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
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The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene
— Allen Ginsberg
Who Wrote These Disappearance Quotes
79 authors contributed a total of 90 Disappearance Quotes, led by these top contributors: