Disappeared Quotes
336 Disappeared quotes by 281 unique authors
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Remembering the ball became for Emma a daily occupation. Every time Wednesday came round, she told herself when she woke up: 'Ah! One week ago...two…
— Gustave Flaubert
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Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms from opposition parties…
— Amartya Sen
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When I was a kid, my mom once told me that God was an artist and how on occasion He’d throw a bucketful of paint…
— Kristina McMorris
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What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted…
— Meghan O'Rourke
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I stare at this ceaseless, rushing crowd and imagine a time a hundred years from now. In a hundred years everybody here-me included-will have disappeared…
— Haruki Murakami
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From out of nowhere, Phury felt an overwhelming tide of guilt, like someone had popped the lid off all his deepest concerns and his fears…
— J R Ward
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Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I started making up…
— Marya Hornbacher
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The two girls disappeared into the stern cabin once more. Will watched them go, then asked Halt, 'Anything you'd like me to do? Grow a…
— John Flanagan
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Dan moved forward and replaced Jonah at the helm. "I've got a plan!" "That's my man!" The famous grin disappeared as Jonah took in the…
— Gordon Korman
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Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my hands. Precious as…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief hidden inside a…
— Haruki Murakami
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He stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. ''For you a thousand times over!'' he said. Then he smiled his Hassan smile and…
— Khaled Hosseini
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If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from…
— Jonas Salk
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I watched the land for as long as I could, until it disappeared behind its shawl of mist, and until I had it fixed in…
— Aimee Friedman
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Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted.…
— Lauren DeStefano
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Life…we understand it differently at different stages. It’s what is interesting about getting older, you realize your relationship with the past is always negotiable. There…
— Jeanette Winterson
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A light was on in the kitchen. His mother sat at the kitchen table, as still as a statue. Her hands were clasped together, and…
— Suzanne Collins
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When she fell asleep, she dreamed of death-- not just for her, not just for her species, but for every living thing she had ever…
— Dan Wells
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Her hair was strawberry blond, and she had the shape of a popsicle stick: turn her sideways and she practically disappeared.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as it was his…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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Lucas: I wanted to talk to you after class, but you disappeared. Me: I have another class right after. One of those profs who stops…
— Tammara Webber
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A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.
— Albert Camus
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Time would not change what I was feeling--or not feeling. I'd had time, and though the ache from his desertion hadn't disappeared, it was decreasing.…
— Tammara Webber
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As he gave a sleepy, growling groan, that hand disappeared under the sheet. Arizona's lips parted, and her heartbeat tripped up. She cleared her throat.…
— Lori Foster
Who Wrote These Disappeared Quotes
281 authors contributed a total of 336 Disappeared Quotes, led by these top contributors: