Vanishing Quotes

89 Vanishing quotes by 78 unique authors

I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian. That I am still able to be here, I owe to… — Will Rogers
I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he… — Orson Welles
PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B… — Ambrose Bierce
Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand,… — Richard Le Gallienne
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty… — Susan Sontag
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. — John Steinbeck
I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land… — E. O. Wilson
...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home… — Rebecca Solnit
With her foot on the threshold she waited a moment longer in a scene which was vanishing even as she looked, and then, as she… — Virginia Woolf
An eye is meant to see things. The soul is here for its own joy. A head has one use: For loving a true love.… — Unknown Author
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 baby’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 convention—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 can’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

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