Vanish Quotes
281 Vanish quotes by 222 unique authors
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Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path , to vanish into the vast sea…
— Richard Selzer
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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were,…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had…
— Archibald MacLeish
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It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go....We are living in the end of the sovereign states....In the great struggle to evoke…
— H.G. Wells
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The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is good to come to a country you know practically nothing about. Your thoughts grow still, useless. Everything must be rebuilt. In a country…
— Andrzej Stasiuk
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God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and…
— Joyce Cary
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We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish.
— Dinaw Mengestu
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. These qualities have ever been displayed in their mightiest…
— John Quincy Adams
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
— William James
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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The…
— Guillaume Apollinaire
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These are my daughters, I suppose. But where in the world did the children vanish?
— Phyllis McGinley
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God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond control. Even if our core…
— Robert Wright
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And when the sun rises we are afraid it might not remain when the sun sets we are afraid it might not rise in the…
— Audre Lorde
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If life were eternal, all interest and anticipation would vanish. It is uncertainty which lends it fascination.
— Yoshida Kenko
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Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and…
— Ramana Maharshi
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In a very real sense, we are shipwrecked passengers on a doomed planet. Yet, even in a shipwreck, human decencies and human values do not…
— Norbert Wiener
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No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish…
— Dogen
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Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Not even the lichen of the tundra is at peace. All is struggle, all is war for dominance. Those who lose, vanish. -And we’re no…
— Steven Erikson
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Confronted with the loving-sharing Consensus of subject-SUBJECT relationships all Authoritarianism must vanish. The Fairy Family Circle, co-joined in the shared vision of non-possessive love -…
— Harry Hay
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If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real,…
— Ramana Maharshi
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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow....
— Yunus Emre
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Never allow weakness to overtake your mind. Remember Mahavira, remember the Divine Mother! And you will see that all weakness, all cowardice will vanish at…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it…
— Spalding Gray
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