Vanished Quotes
230 quotes by 200 authors
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There are persons who can speak no more, whose very names have vanished. Yet a name excised from the verge where it once lived still…
— Erin Moure
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Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do…
— Emile M. Cioran
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I ask but one thing of you, only one, That always you will be my dream of you; That never shall I wake to find…
— Amy Lowell
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The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain…
— Li Bai
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Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It…
— Hilary Mantel
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My love for my children makes me glad that I am what I am, and keeps me from desiring to be otherwise; and yet, when…
— James Weldon Johnson
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I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that have vanished abound. There's a…
— May Kendall
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Forget the past. The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Time’ has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village... a simultaneous happening
— Marshall McLuhan
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We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant past
— Dmitri Volkogonov
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But the main point is that soldiers, after fighting for some time, are apt to be like burned-out cinders. They have shot off their ammunition,…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Machines have about as much warmth as a cube of ice. And that is why the horse is still part of our lives and will…
— Marguerite Henry
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One thing is certain: for many of those who came back from WWII, the music of Frank Sinatra was no consolation for their losses. Some…
— Pete Hamill
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I was literally singing to myself on my way home, after the killing. The tension, the desire to kill a woman had built up in…
— David Berkowitz
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The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.
— Iris Chang
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I have always had a love for American geography, and especially for the landscapes of the South. One of my pleasures has been to drive…
— Willie Morris
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The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I…
— Swami Vivekananda
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure, and go calmly…
— Ben Jonson
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Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat…
— Wilfred Burchett
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