Vanishing Quotes

89 Vanishing quotes by 78 unique authors

Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing... — Henri Cartier-Bresson
A man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Many, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it was a vanishing… — Arthur C. Clarke
Liupan the Mountain of Six Circles Dazzling sky to the far cirrus clouds. I gaze at wild geese vanishing into the south. If we cannot… — Mao Zedong
Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man and young maid,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Necessary, since every moment in our lives is marked by death, like a shadow from another realm, it appear to us like a vanishing point… — Andre Comte-Sponville
A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have… — Marcel Proust
In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point. — Marshall McLuhan
In London it had seemed impossible to travel without the proper evening clothes. One could see an invitation arriving for an Embassy ball or something.… — Robert Edison Fulton, Jr.
My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. They're my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing. — Nick Brandt
There was one bursting now, a delicate constellation of many-coloured stars which drifted down and lingered in the still air.... The final rocket went up,… — Jan Struther
As the spring comes on, and the densening outlines of the elm give daily a new design for a Grecian urn, — its hue, first… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
I want my images to achieve two things in this regard - to be an elegy to a world that is tragically vanishing, to make… — Nick Brandt
We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the… — Richard Le Gallienne
More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie. — Corrie Ten Boom
... I was reminded of a remark of Willa Cather's, that you can't paint sunlight, you can only paint what it does with shadows on… — Wallace Stegner
Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion. — Paul Theroux
Happiness is indeed a Eurydice, vanishing as soon as gazed upon. It can exist only in acceptance, and succumbs as soon as it is laid… — Denis de Rougemont
Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family's bungalow! David Suzuki rides… — Linwood Barclay
In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event. — Jeff Goodell
Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the… — Victor Hugo
Perspective is a law of optics... The Chinese did not have a system like it. Indeed, it is said they rejected the idea of the… — David Hockney
The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the west's greatest mistakes… — David Hockney
The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals. — Robert E. Sherwood
The great purpose is to set aside a reasonable part of the vanishing wilderness, to make certain that generations of Americans yet unborn will know… — Frank Church

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