Vanished Quotes

230 quotes by 195 authors

Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart… — Loren Eiseley
...there was another, gorier parturition, when two nations incarnated out of one. A foreigner drew a magic line on a map and called it the… — Rohinton Mistry
East of the sun and west of the moon.' As unfathomable as the words were, I realized I must figure them out, reason it through.… — Edith Pattou
Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer… — Garth Nix
And stop doing that,â€ he said. â€œBacking away, giving me that look.â€ Like youâ€™re scaring me? Maybe you are.â€ He stepped back so fast he… — Kelley Armstrong
Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail,… — Neil Gaiman
Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach toward the earth… — Rainer Maria Rilke
The time for lies and secrets is over," she meowed. "The truth must come out. Starclan was wrong not to tell you who you were… — Erin Hunter
At first, it feels as if she has vanished forever, and all traces are destroyed. But later, when the pain of loss doesn't overwhelm all… — Maria V. Snyder
You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house-- , and you almost stepped… — Rainer Maria Rilke
A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears… — Rabindranath Tagore
Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Only what?â€ I asked. I could barely hear my own voice. He turned his gaze back to me, firm and unflinching. â€œOnlyâ€¦ more human.â€ And… — Richelle Mead
I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people feel that they're… — Arthur Miller
And again there are no words. Words exist that can, used by a poet, achieve a dim monochrome of the body's love, but beyond that… — John Wyndham
Everything passes away-suffering,pain, blood, hunger,pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds… — Mikhail Bulgakov
His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful party of four… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished:… — Victor Hugo
One corner of his mouth crooked up, then the quirk vanished in a thoughtful pursing of his lips. "He's bisexual, you know." He took a… — Lois McMaster Bujold
Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days… — Audrey Niffenegger

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