Vanishing Quotes

89 quotes by 78 authors

Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence. — John O'Donohue
Please believe me when I tell you that I picked up each soul that day as if it were newly born. I even kissed a… — Markus Zusak
The smile that flickers on a babyâ€™s lips when he sleeps- does anyone know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a… — Rabindranath Tagore
The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder. — Douglas Coupland
Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands… — Tana French
It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to… — Alan Moore
The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human conventionâ€”distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the… — Sam Harris
There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs… — Tom Stoppard
There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely… — Virginia Woolf
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within,… — James A. Baldwin
It meant nothing to him any longer, only a faint tinge of sadness--and somewhere within him, a drop of pain moving briefly and vanishing, like… — Ayn Rand
How can I ever trust you? (Acheron) You canâ€™t. But I have lived inside your memories for the last three years. I know the pain… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I wasn't paying attention," said Myrtle dramatically. "Peeves upset me so much I came in here and tried to kill myself. Then, of course, I… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found... That's out of three hundred million, total… — Jim Butcher
But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules. — James Dashner
It leaned forward, elbows on its knees, all amusement vanishing from its features, leaving its chiseled visage quietly regal, dignified. "I give you my word,… — Karen Marie Moning
Did I ever tell you,â€™ said Lymond pausing on the afterthought, on his way to the flap, â€˜that that aunt of mine once hatched an… — Dorothy Dunnett
The older woman waiting for admittance looked at me, then over her shoulder at Patch, who was vanishing down the hall. â€œHoney,â€ she told me,… — Becca Fitzpatrick
This singularity of meaning--I was my face, I was ugliness--though sometimes unbearable, also offered a possible point of escape. It became the launching pad from… — Lucy Grealy

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