Vanished Quotes

230 quotes by 195 authors

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the… — Lytton Strachey
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… — Joanna Baillie
The morning woods were utterly new. A strong yellow light pooled beneath the trees; my shadow appeared and vanished on the path, since a third… — Annie Dillard
After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last… — Pete Sampras
From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and… — Jean de la Bruyere
Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has… — Albert Schweitzer
Sweet April-time-O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow Of promise, and red lips with longing paled, And backward-hidden hands that clutch the… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Every cuisine tells a story. Jewish food tells the story of an uprooted, migrating people and their vanished worlds. It lives in people's minds and… — Claudia Roden
Last of all will come self-surrender. Then we shall be able to give ourselves up to the Mother. If misery comes, welcome; if happiness comes,… — Swami Vivekananda
For two months after Christmas vacation we limped around campus with muscles too tigh and sore to walk properly, yet we had no good idea… — Stefan Kieszling
I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of… — Albert Speer
Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but was a slow evolution through… — Joseph Fort Newton
The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual revision… — Russell Kirk
There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. . . . When the duties of life have all been nobly done;… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures have not passed… — Lucretius
Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The days when it was possible to win a serious game only by merit of sporting character or depth of chess understanding have vanished forever.… — Anatoly Karpov
The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a city… — Donna Tartt
With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world. — Richard Peck
If I get too comfortable, I will wake one morning and everything around me will have shifted overnight. All I knew? I know no longer.… — Rebecca Lim

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