Vanishes Quotes
121 Vanishes quotes by 107 unique authors
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We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.
— Haruki Murakami
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things…
— Voltaire
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I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in…
— Yann Martel
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She goes where she pleases. She appears unhoped for, uncalled for. She moves through doors and walls and windows. Her thoughts move through minds. She…
— Rachel Klein
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Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead…
— Irvin D. Yalom
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All morning, Spence has been a well-oiled machine of activity. Everyone doing her bit, quietly and efficiently. It's strange how deliberate people are after a…
— Libba Bray
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We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday’s films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep the plays of…
— Daphne du Maurier
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There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees…
— Louisa May Alcott
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What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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On its outer surface time is vulnerable to transience. Regardless of its sadness or beauty, each day empties and vanishes. In its deeper heart, time…
— John O'Donohue
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Because civilization isn't a thing that you build and then there it is, you have it forever. It needs to be built constantly, recreated daily.…
— Steven Galloway
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Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and you catch a glimpse of a tiny light in a window of a…
— Haruki Murakami
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a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would be, at that…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
— Douglas Adams
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This is how memories are; what seems so clear and unforgettable at one moment vanishes like steam the next.
— Michelle Moran
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Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception…
— Ian Mcewan
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A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it's made. You go from one place to another place, and on to…
— Damon Galgut
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Tell the Queen that there's been a robin red-breast hanging about Kotir grounds. It flies down low and vanishes near the floor. Cludd thinks it…
— Brian Jacques
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