Top 100 Erased Quotes
#1. Fame is like a big eraser. It's strange, now that I'm famous. In my parents' opinion, all the shitty things - all the wreckage of my past - is erased. Now it's like I was never the kid who got arrested. Now I'm a wonderful son.
Bobcat Goldthwait
#2. Sometimes, the truth comes out in ways you wish it didn't; all you can do is hope that someday you will be forgiven, that the blemish will be erased from the permanent record known as your soul.
Ted Michael
#3. How she looks is watered-down.
How she looks is disappearing.
How she looks is erased.
"Don't stress", she says. "This is just me not wearing any makeup.
Chuck Palahniuk
#4. I prefer working out of strict continuity, because no normal human being can have a firm grip on the constantly shifting bardo-like territory of a comics universe, where entire histories can be erased by a strong enough super-sneeze.
Grant Morrison
#5. They say time heals and makes us forget, but what two people shared can never be erased.
Shannon L. Alder
#6. Dad's especially need to remember that what they say to their daughters is written in Sharpie. It can't be erased.
Sue Enquist
#7. If enough people repeat the stories for long enough, Jason will become something that cannot die, but he also will have been erased, because the actions are too large and impersonal. The stories will reveal nothing about the real man who lived.
David Vann
#8. Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?
Mickey Kaus
#9. I had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder.
Elena Ferrante
#10. Of all the contracts I had signed, this was perhaps the only one that my father could never have imagined me signing, for it traded what should never be traded. It delivered me into the unknown and erased my father's name. I could not know that this was just the first of many erasures.
Laila Lalami
#11. Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased.
Jim Carrey
#12. Movies are great, but the real romance happens right here somewhere as real close-up. Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased, so ... It's not a pleasant feeling!
Jim Carrey
#13. No, my child, these things are impossible. It would have been better if she had recognize the truth courageously. She would have suffered once, then time would have erased with its sponge. There is nothing like looking things in the face, believe me.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#14. Our decisions, once executed, can never be erased. This is because such selections introduce a new series of conditions setting in motion events which cannot later be recalled.
Henry D. Moyle
#15. I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support; you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you're from or what you did before.
Isabel Allende
#16. I erased the thought from my mind, but I couldn't undo the fact that I'd had the thought in the first place.
Scarlett Thomas
#17. It was as if nothing quite erased the initial shock of being kissed by someone who was not hers, a kiss that was stolen, claimed from her flippantly, a kiss so abrasively illicit that she seemed to deserve it, as though she was not worth much to begin with.
Suki Kim
#18. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.
Tim O'Brien
#19. The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.
Fannie Flagg
#20. It is the rarest thing ... that gets preserved, that does not get erased, broken down, transformed.
Anthony Doerr
#21. Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.
Pranab Mukherjee
#22. I don't remember my childhood very well for one reason or another, possibly childhood trauma or possibly just a very bad memory. My early life has sort of been erased from my memory banks.
Michel Faber
#23. Our common status made talk easier. [...] She knew the paradox of being stared at and not seen. She knew what it felt like to walk out of a movie theater feeling ashamed or erased.
Alex Tizon
#24. Hatred will never be erased! The only thing you can do ... is erase the ones you hate. - Hakuryuu
Shinobu Ohtaka
#26. It was unsettling, Laurel thought, suppressing a shiver, how quickly a person's presence could be erased, how easily civilization gave way to wilderness.
Kate Morton
#27. Words, I've come to learn, are pulleys through time. Portals into other minds. Without words, what remains? Indecipherable customs. Strange rites. Blighted hearts. Without words, we're history's orphans. Our lives and thoughts erased
Alena Graedon
#28. When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
Ma Jian
#29. I copied the address into my address book, erasing an earlier one that had not been good for very long. No address of his was good for very long and the paper in my address book where his address is written is thin and soft from being erased so often.
Lydia Davis
#30. [Graffiti] gets erased and painted over, and maybe it's even more beautiful because we know it won't last.
Wendy Lichtman
#32. Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.
Mariska Hargitay
#33. The distinction between the things of Caesar and the things of God is constantly being erased in our fallen world, and this always indicates that the Kingdom of Caesar is attempting to swallow up the Kingdom of God.
Nikolai A. Berdyaev
#34. I was going to tape some records onto a cassette, but I got the wires backwards. I erased the all of the records. When I returned them to my friend, he said, "Hey, these records are all blank."
Steven Wright
#35. Books'll be back," Esther-in-Unalaq predicts. "Wait till the power grids start failing in the 2030s and the datavats get erased. It's not far away. The future looks a lot like the past.
David Mitchell
#36. I'm not alive. People believe memories grow vague, are erased by time, since nothing endures against the passage of time. That's the difference; time does not pass over me, over us. It doesn't erase anything, doesn't undo it. I'm not a live. I died in Auschwitz but no one knows it.
Charlotte Delbo
#37. And on some nights in bed, in that moment before sleep erased the day, I would picture the way the sky in Lapland looked the morning I left, how the train had sped south beneath a sky that was brighter than it had been in weeks. It had pulsed with reds and oranges, as though hiding a beating heart.
Vendela Vida
#38. Pain is erased when inflicted upon others.
Crixus
#39. Memories images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
Italo Calvino
#40. Bubby scoffs at my question. A Jew can never be a goy, she says, even if they try their hardest to become one. They may dress like one, speak like one, live like one, but Jewishness is something that can never be erased. Even Hitler knew that.
Deborah Feldman
#41. Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind's pathetic and fruitless attempts at immortality.
Sarah Silverman
#42. The past, has been erased; the present, forgiven; and the future, redeemed.
Anthony Liccione
#43. You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue.
Carol Ann Duffy
#44. The ending of the day was the ending of a powerful song, one that filled you up with anticipation because all the mistakes you made in the blazing light of day were erased.
Calia Read
#45. The loose skin on her face had been lifted. Her nose was smaller. Her teeth were capped. The lines on her forehead had been erased. Her eye bags had disappeared. Her wrinkles had gone. Her breasts were much, much bigger. But she was still limping.
David Walliams
#46. Every time a bit of information is erased, we know it doesn't disappear. It goes out into the environment. It may be horribly scrambled and confused, but it never really gets lost. It's just converted into a different form.
Leonard Susskind
#47. I'm a huge Springsteen fan, and yet if either he or Bob Dylan had to be erased from the world's hard drive, I would save Bob Dylan's work for sure - he's the greater talent, and by leaps and bounds and skyscrapers and rocket blasts. But Bob Dylan is an alien to his public.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#48. Having your existence completely erased has to qualify as a life-changing event, by anyone's definition.
Rysa Walker
#49. In the process Paul laid out a comprehensive theory of poverty, of a world designed by the elites of all nations to serve their own ends, the pieces of the design enshrined in ideologies, which erased the histories of how things came to be as they were.
Tracy Kidder
#50. A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
Hans Frank
#51. His shirt is rumpled. His fingers, long and slender, are stained yellow at the tips from smoking. His mind is always on something else. My mind is busy, too, reading every cue and signal, keeping track of all the things that cannot be discussed, that must not be remembered, that have to be erased.
Kristen Iversen
#52. For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was created.
Esmeralda Santiago
#53. I'm the one erased. Or I guess I'm not even that, because the thing about being erased is that first you have to leave a mark.
Robyn Schneider
#54. What is a shadow? It is the self without a face or a name, all outline and no feature, the self on the verge of being erased. It is the incidental child of matter and light. Look how it spreads itself on the ground, weary but weightless, unable to leave a trace.
Conchitina Cruz
#55. I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.
Kurt Cobain
#56. If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased, because a great deal of one's suffering is based on sheer lies.
R.D. Laing
#57. In God's vocabulary, 'lost' is an unnecessary adjective that is easily erased by the adjective 'found' if we would simply be brave enough to hand Him the eraser.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#58. For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?
Attila The Hun
#59. When I checked the other day, I found it - my strawberry patch - overgrown and hidden under weeds, but still there ... like secrets, like memories. You can make yourself believe that they have been erased. But they are there, if you look closely. If you have a wish to uncover them.
Linda Olsson
#60. we are the boat
returning to dock
we are the footprints
on the northern trail
we are the iron
coloring the soil
we cannot
be erased
Remi Kanazi
#61. A fresh lightning tree sprouted in the distance as Mother Nature painted the sky in rapid strokes, strobed the results, and then erased her magnificent creation, leaving its after-image burned into Rolf's retinas. So beautiful. So fleeting. Like life itself.
Richard Phillips
#62. Every river they came to was bridge-less, as if its name had been erased, as if the sky were starless, homes doorless.
Michael Ondaatje
#63. There was no plan for us. We are a misspelling being erased by Death in order for the story of total chaos to continue.
Keith Buckley
#64. I don't know their names. Their names have been erased from my memory banks. If I tried to bring 'em back, I'd get shocked.
Shaquille O'Neal
#65. Carrying a child is a sacred thing. There is a bond established between mother and child in the womb that lasts forever. The truth of this bond can never be erased.
Daniel Black
#66. In the broad light of day, I could not give his tale nearly so much credence as I had granted it when sitting rapt before a midnight fireplace whilst the tempest without erased the natural world.
Lyndsay Faye
#67. You see, I have no real complaints of how you've left your past behind I guess what gets me worried is you've erased him from your mind.
Harry Chapin
#68. When you got born again your past was not erased, it became non-existent.
Chris Oyakhilome
#69. When you do pratikraman after conflict, the conflict is erased. When you give rise to new conflicts, the energies that had arisen will disappear again.
Dada Bhagwan
#70. Mistakes can't be erased, but they move you from your present position.
Richard Diebenkorn
#71. Progress is slow, it is uneven, it is fragile and in some parts of the world it is being erased.
Angelina Jolie
#72. We live through evolution ourselves, each of us, progressing through different apprehensions of the world, at each age forgetting the last age, every previous mind erased. We no longer see the same world at all.
David Vann
#73. The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.
Greg Boyle
#74. The heathen could only be eliminated as a force if their culture was completely erased.
Tariq Ali
#75. Ours is a culture that dances on the edge of ephemerality. If our servers slept for too long or if we left our iPads unplugged for too long, we'd wake up like Rip Van Winkle to find all of our book culture erased.
Jason Merkoski
#76. Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.
Ori Gersht
#77. I feel us tilting toward each other like trees in a strong breeze. I've been craving the sight of him for days, but now its not enough. I'm not sure who moves first. The inches between us are erased until I'm in his arms and my mouth finds his.
Jessica Spotswood
#78. (never entirely erased the stink, though - she must have one rank pussy),
Gillian Flynn
#79. The idea that what had happened could be erased, that the burden that was on her now could be lifted, that the past could be restored and could make its way effortlessly into a painless present.
Colm Toibin
#80. Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.
George Michael
#81. How easily we all vanish from the face of the earth. One moment, we live. The next, we are erased.
Kate Wrath
#82. Where's Barack Obama when Christmas references are being erased from civic calendars? Is he crying out in defense of religious liberty and our First Amendment? Nope. He's as silent as a church mouse. And animosity toward religion continues to grow.
Chuck Norris
#83. I learn to
love the thing that has to be erased,
the thing I may not be allowed to keep,
sand that runs away beneath my running feet.
Imtiaz Dharker
#84. Whatever hath been written shall remain,
Nor be erased nor written o'er again;
The unwritten only still belongs to thee:
Take heed, and ponder well what that shall be.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#85. Words are powerful and once spoken can never be erased.
Various
#86. Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many.
Fernando Pessoa
#87. Because the Bolsheviks, who were so intent upon recasting the future from a mold of their own making, would not rest until every last vestige of his Russia had been uprooted, shattered, or erased. Returning
Amor Towles
#88. A game. That's all life is, that's all it feels like. Everyone waiting for their turn to spin the bottle or for the bottle to finally choose them. Who would you rather is real. We can be erased, that's real too.
Alexis Bass
#89. Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
Primo Levi
#90. Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled. Nor ever can the overt act be erased.
Pythagoras
#91. Components of today include a shape asleep on the floor an erased white world the tumblers vibrating in the closet and he brought the wrong book. Alive in a room as usual.
Anne Carson
#92. Why can't you just look into my mind and see what happened for yourself? You erased
my memory, can't you bring it back?
-I buried it beyond even my reach, so as to be sure it stayed forgotten.
Great. If Mega-Master Mencheres couldn't pry it out, then it must really be lost.
Jeaniene Frost
#93. This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best.
Night, sleep, and the stars.
Walt Whitman
#94. The boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.
Mary Astor
#95. He'd done this hundreds of times: done a job, been drugged with a narcotic that erased his short term memory, and dumped in a seedy hole in the wall locale, where when he climbed out, he would have to figure out where he was, find a payphone, and call in for his next job.
Jennifer Arnett
#97. Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased," Polo said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little.
Italo Calvino
#98. I wanted to build a fire with our shadow selves and burn there or be erased by the narcotic of limerence when I turned your face into a fire: a love story.
Melissa Broder
#99. Even now, you refused to be pixelated, forgotten, silenced, erased. Not that I wanted to erase you. The opposite. I wanted the opposite.
David Levithan
#100. We are never as beautiful as now. The crushing sadness of hotel rooms; the gelid lights and clean notepads; the blank walls and particles of someone else's erased life.
Aleksandar Hemon
