Top 100 Erased Quotes
#1. Nations, no matter how small and unmeritorious, cannot be annihilated. They may be put down and even divided up, and their name erased from the roll of nations; but the generic spark is there, and will flame up to the end of time distinct and inextinguishable!
W.C. Corsan
#2. The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.
Dag Hammarskjold
#3. The year after I graduated college I had a job in a library. When people underlined passages in the library books, or made notes in the margins, the books were sent to me. I erased the lines and the notes. Yes, that was my job.
Lev Grossman
#4. I'm a chalkboard that's been erased over and over again until there's nothing left but a haze of white dust. Before this I never understood how long an hour could take, how many ticks of the second hand are in a minute, how endless the space between seconds can be.
Sarah McCarry
#5. He wanted to be deafened by the thunder of her engines, he needed to be drained of every thought by the cold, the noise, the equal amounts of boredom and adrenalin. He had believed once that he would be formed by the architecture of war, but now he realized, he had been erased by it.
Kate Atkinson
#6. The portrait of his past was partially erased by God and he is searching for those erased portions.
Durgesh Satpathy
#7. You erased my famine, unpicked my anger
Your energy charges my voice, it radiates my heart;
Now I am alive with the ore of words pouring
From my lips like molten lava glittering with joy.
Rumi
#8. If those arrangements [the fundamental arrangements of knowledge] were to disappear as they appeared ... then one can certainly wager that man would be erased, like a face drawn in sand at the edge of the sea.
Michel Foucault
#9. If I won a few billion in the lottery, I would create an institute where people who would like to die would come spend a weekend, a week, or a month in pleasure, under drugs perhaps, in order to disappear afterward, as if erased.
Michel Foucault
#10. when they gazed at the sea, people held their heads up, and their faces became curious and open, as if they were searching for something that linked them to the sun and the stars, looking for that something they knew would linger long after the wind had erased their footprints in the dust.
Thrity Umrigar
#11. Many school administrators are so cautious that they have erroneously erased all traces of religion. Some have run roughshod over teachers. Others have attempted to squelch all discussion of religion.
Mathew Staver
#13. It was as if I had been looking at the whole thing clearly on the blackboard of my mind, but when I turned to read it, part of it had been erased and the rest didn't make sense.
Daniel Keyes
#14. The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#15. Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.
George Orwell
#16. And if you have the emotional strength and/or support from family and friends, the damage is reduced or erased. We think of it as the stress (minor or disabling) that is part of life as a human.
Toni Morrison
#17. It was a beautifully simple picture these procession leaders had. It was as though a navigator, in order to free his mind of worries, had erased all the reefs from his maps. - Chapter 21
Kurt Vonnegut
#18. Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took an evening to compose their thoughts, maybe the next evening as well.
Mitch Albom
#19. I know nothing about and how else the Society might have altered maps over the years. There must be a world past the Enemy territory. How much has been erased and taken away?
Ally Condie
#20. Those old habits don't have to be erased, they just become replaced by a new habit that is more in vibrational harmony with who you are and what you want.
Esther Hicks
#21. I can't help thinking that a heroine should be able to love without being erased.
Samantha Ellis
#22. Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of 'others' and 'our' problems are being increasingly erased.
Janez Drnovsek
#23. She mourned the history that the invisible intruder had erased, but not enough that she would spend a second more of her future feeling the emptiness.
Thomm Quackenbush
#24. We are all entitled to make mistakes, but what separates a hero from a villain is how we learn from those mistakes. A villain will see his past as a weakness to be erased. A hero will see his past as experience, to be acknowledged and incorporated into the present.
Mitch Rowland
#25. If you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not have changed.
Nicolas Berggruen
#26. The threat is over, erased with violence and tiny porcelain hands so used to abuse they can stand innocent no longer.
C.M. Stunich
#27. No matter how hard the Man tries to sterilize us, I take solace in the fact that that we can't be erased.
Eddie Huang
#28. Sex, once a law as undisputed as gravity, has been disproved. The equation is erased, the blackboard broken
Isaac Marion
#29. Love is written in our instincts, yet erased by our actions.
Gayle D. Erwin
#30. ... forgotten friend Mushkin ... we read. Time had erased the never, and corrected the falsehood of man.
Anton Chekhov
#31. I realized I had to leave or become an erased soul inside a physical shape pantomiming the motions of life.
Bruce Bauman
#32. All bad memories erased! Now you can make new ones-good memories.
Jung Woo
#33. One by one, the electric lights ringing the lawn were ignited. Each one, as it burst into brilliance, erased a constellation from the evening sky.
Tim Westover
#34. The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.
Norbert Wiener
#35. I don't want to be penciled in anywhere, pencil can be erased.
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#36. History cannot be erased or altered.Because that would mean killing yourself.
Haruki Murakami
#37. If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased.
Maya Angelou
#38. When you start replacing facts with feelings, you disturb the equilibrium between right and wrong, confusing them as one and the same while encouraging more destructive behavior. As a stigma is erased, a behavior becomes more prevalent.
Greg Gutfeld
#39. She had a sense of longing and loss that she had never had before. It was as if her family history had been erased and they'd been left unmemorable.She imagined that Rachel's family must have similar feelings, but she did not try to share these thoughts with Rachel.
Denny Taylor
#40. This is what happens, of course: men get lost, men vanish, men are erased and reborn.
Doug Dorst
#41. Walk lightly on this # planet and yet leave such a # footprint that cannot be erased for thousands of years!
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#42. The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.
Teju Cole
#43. A bad thing about dying is that I've started to feel as though I'm being erased. Another bad thing is that I won't get to find out what happens next.
Audrey Niffenegger
#44. No matter how bad your past is, you still don't want it erased.
Paul Aertker
#45. He hooked the charm into place. "Only this star matters." His thumb brushing over her inner wrist. "Should it be erased, no other has the right to live.
Nalini Singh
#46. I have high regard and respect for those men who erased the disgrace from the forehead of our nation.
Osama Bin Laden
#47. Dachau-the significance of this name will never be erased from German history. It stands for all concentration camps which the Nazis established in their territory.
Eugen Kogon
#48. I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.
Judy Chicago
#49. Death - so feared and so dodged - was, once you faced it, the simplest thing going. In order to die, one merely had to stop attempting to live. One merely had to agree to vanish. If Alma simply remained still, pinned beneath the bulk of this unknown opponent, she would be effortlessly erased.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#50. The painting was food. He wanted to caress it, hold it in his hands, lick its glazed surface, plunge into it, dive into the Florentine light. Years vanished, decades were erased, and he was again the boy who had come here to the feast of art.
Pete Hamill
#51. Cal's touch has not erased Maven's. My memories are still there, still just as painful as they were yesterday. And as much as I try, I have not forgotten the canyon that will always stretch between us. No kind of love can erase his faults, just like none can erase mine.
Victoria Aveyard
#52. The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be erased forever.
Raul Castro
#53. History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.
Emilie Autumn
#54. The word "can't" should be erased from the dictionary. It is an excuse for I don't want to even try.
J.M. Brown
#55. I have to reach "the poetry condition" to write. Then it is as if the border around me is thinned or blurred or erased or disappeared or dead.
Kim Hyesoon
#56. She had been born knowing that boldness erased fear, while cowardice invited it and earned her only more ill treatment. No matter how she shook with dread in private, she would never show fear before her questioners or her guards. In men's minds fear was a certain mark of guilt.
Jeane Westin
#57. The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it.
Susan Meissner
#58. Standing at the crossroads where I should have been able to see and follow the footprints of the countless patients I had treated over the years, I saw instead only a blank, a harsh, vacant, gleaming white desert, as if a sandstorm had erased all trace of familiarity.
Paul Kalanithi
#60. Resentment had erased all ambiguity in our encounters with people like him; we had been polarized into "us" and "them.
Azar Nafisi
#61. Every time you envy someone you use a muscle in your face to disadvantage. If you do it only once or twice, it can be erased. But over a period of years, those muscles will tighten your mouth, narrow your eyes, and help destroy your attractiveness.
Arlene Dahl
#62. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
George Orwell
#63. The boy I used to know as Thomas Merker has been erased
replaced with a personality programmed by television and commercials to act a certain way.
Brian James
#64. Once an idea is out and about, it can't be called back, silenced or erased. You can't contain it, any more than you could put the head of a dandelion back together after the wind has scattered its seeds.
P.W. Catanese
#65. Perhaps, if we don't always have a conscious conscience, we have a subliminal one, from which the memory of past wrongs is not so easily erased.
Eva Hoffman
#66. Before modern feminism, stories of female ambition were silenced or erased; even now, they are told with apology ("Yes, it's a great honor to be a Nobel Prize laureate, but really, what I love best is staying home and being a mother to Kevin and Annie").
Harriet Lerner
#67. And yet in only a few hours we've managed to erase her almost entirely. All of her things - bought, received, painstakingly selected; her tastes and preferences; all the random stuff accumulated over the years - all of it sorted, trashed, or packed up in less than a day. How easily we get erased.
Lauren Oliver
#68. I couldn't even picture Mavis's face anymore. It was sad. She was being erased. I wanted to put my finger on her forehead, but there was nothing there.
James Tate
#69. I find this less scandalous than beautiful: a kind of palimpsestic plagiarism that moves through bodies and time, a collective song with no single origin, or whose origin has been erased
the way a star, from our earthly perspective, is often survived by its own light.
Ben Lerner
#70. A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time's records before long.
Salman Rushdie
#71. There's a reason why young people think what they think. They are taught it. In many cases when they learn at home is erased or countered or overcome.
Rush Limbaugh
#72. There are plenty of people who like you just as you are. You should remember that when you start feeling like you're being erased.
Heather Cocks
#73. The old grooves must be erased in your brain, without forming new ones. You must realize yourself as the immovable, behind and beyond the movable, the silent witness of all that happens.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#74. After all the screaming in our house, there reigned, that winter on Middlesex, only silence. A silence so profound that, like the left foot of the President's secretary, it erased portions of the official record.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#75. The love of independence is a sentiment that surely none would wish to see erased from the breast of man, though the parish law of England, it must be confessed, is a system of all others the most calculated gradually to weaken this sentiment, and in the end may eradicate it completely.
Thomas Malthus
#76. Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change.
Wayne W. Dyer
#77. Nothing can be erased in life. Life is permanent, from the breaths we take to the decisions we make.
Jessica Sorensen
#78. Everything comes to us in fifteen-second sound bites and photo opportunities. All possibility for ambiguity - the most precious trait of any adequate analysis - is erased.
Stephen Jay Gould
#79. One's past can't be erased, it can only be learned from, the child taught her.
H. L. Balcomb
#80. What is written with a sword cannot be erased.
Lev Grossman
#81. Writing [my journal] was the only way I could keep track of the last experience before a new one came along and erased the old one from my thoughts.
Kristine K. Stevens
#82. The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the Hand of Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
Alexander Hamilton
#83. Dying of grief is the ultimate sacrifice, but it is not evolutionarily feasible. If grief were that overwhelming, a species would simply be erased.
Jodi Picoult
#85. The descent to barbarism had begun with Rotterdam. It ended with Dresden and then with Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Whatever moral differences had existed when the war began were erased by its end. The victors had been morally conquered by the enemy.
David McReynolds
#86. Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.
Rumi
#87. The Bishop blessed him and helped him to his feet.
"May God have mercy on you," he said. And erased him from his heart.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#88. The life doesn't simply get erased. It gets imprinted and remembered.
Judith Butler
#89. It's never as good the second time. Things don't get better. You can't always go back, a lot of it has been erased. The photograph is a record of it having existed.
George A Tice
#90. I don't have to tell you that the one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.
W.P. Kinsella
#91. I talk about Africa and its meaning, being the birthplace of man and all that great history that's been erased and even hidden. I think it's my duty to be proud and to bring about the conversation that allows us to talk about the great history of my people.
Nas
#92. For the first time, vague doubts assaulted me, the shattering suspicion that for all pleasure and joy in life we had to pay ... I repel fear. If I had to pay I would pay, after all, the memory of ecstasy while pungisse its pain could never be erased.
Frank Harris
#93. In much postmodern theatre ... the line between theatre and non-theatre is deliberately erased.
Jeremy Begbie
#94. Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.
Blaise Pascal
#95. In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased.
Vladimir Putin
#96. Night's bewitching hand
Slams the door- in my face and that of sorrow.
No matter how hard I try,
It only mocks me.
All that I designed in daytime,
Night came and smeared with smoke.
All that I imagined at night,
Day came and erased outright.
Sohrab Sepehri
#98. Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through change and reform. One can see why that word had to be erased from our political lexicon.
Gore Vidal
#99. Born to destroy kings, born to reshape the world, born to horrify and break and remake, born to endure and never be erased. Hekate Medea, more than god and more than woman, alive now, in the time of origin.
David Vann
#100. Time had erased me a little, rubbed me out. I had faded like a photograph buried under soil. I was tanned and older, weathered and experienced and fat. I was what we all become, a by-product of the torture of ourselves.
David Whitehouse
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