Quote by Joseph Conrad

His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had…

— Joseph Conrad

“He had not died but he had faded out like a film in the sun. He had been lost or had wandered out of…

— James Joyce

“He did not understand how a life could vanish. How that was even possible. How it could close in an instant before you could…

— Paul Yoon

“He was such a throwaway thing of no importance, and yet he existed and would make that existence worthwhile.”

— Glyn Iliffe

“This had happened to him before - in an effort to disappear, he had made himself more conspicuous.”

— Dave Eggers

“He had no more imaginary space, nowhere he could escape to, no more expectations, all he could do was make himself available to the…

— Laurence Cossé

“Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Disappeared' is the only way to describe it-it was as if he dissolved into thin air without so much as a whimper. I wouldn't…

— Yōko Ogawa

“He readied himself to let go, to plunge in, to begin the swim out into the farther cold, out into the terrible, terrible freedom…

— Patrick Ness

“...he understood there was no way to escape Time, and that this moment he had been granted to watch as a child, which had…

— Chris Marker

“He realized the things he had left behind were already hiding inside him; now, for the first time, his life had a past, a…

— Bruce Brooks

“He thought he’d lived through everything. Only now did he realise he’d merely existed.”

— Dianna Hardy