To Disappear Quotes

#1. Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.

Walter Benjamin

#2. Were all stars to disappear and die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total dark sublime,
Though this might take me a little time.
- W. H. Auden, "The More Loving One

W. H. Auden

#3. Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.

Raymond Queneau

#4. If current technological processes continue without change, the environment will change, and we, the human species, will either have to mutate or even die, to disappear, as many species have disappeared.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#5. When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether.

Matthew Fox

#6. Waylon said it best when he sang to Willy; 'If you see me gettin' smaller, I'm leavin' don't be grievin', just gotta get away from here. If you see me gettin' smaller, don't worry, I'm in no hurry I've got the right to disappear.

Waylon Jennings

#7. Then it occured to me that the elicate shades of feeling, of reaction, are the result of communication, and without such communication they tend to disappear. A man with nothing to say has no words.

John Steinbeck

#8. The world grows bigger as the light leaves it. There are no boundaries and no landmarks. The trees and the rocks and the anthills begin to disappear, one by one, whisked away under the magical cloak of evening.

Beryl Markham

#9. President Bush stopped off at a bass pro fishing store to pick up a fishing reel, some line and some rubber worms. He's going to disappear and go fishing. So he must think he's back in the National Guard.

Jay Leno

#10. Viktor had been very sad about their grandfather's death, but Flora had intuited that it was less the person he grieved for than the fact of death itself. Death meant that people actually disappeared. That everyone was going to disappear

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#11. It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear. But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten the reservations were meant to be death camps.

Sherman Alexie

#12. Education is a tender garden, whereas ignorance is weeds. History - the old history - was full of examples proving that, when civilizations fell, learning was the first thing to disappear.

Anonymous

#13. I can't be a part of the large convoy because it's not a choice that you can make. The fact that I'm an educated person means that I can't be on that convoy. I don't want to be on it. I don't want to be a victim. I don't want to disappear into the darkness.

Arundhati Roy

#14. It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.

Martin Luther

#15. It is not true that were the Soviet Union to disappear the remaining states could easily live in peace.

Kenneth Waltz

#16. And in that vastness, it seemed like every memory existed only to disappear one day.

Vatsal Surti

#17. Suppose you feel you cannot accept some fact about yourself. Then own your refusal to accept. Own the block. Embrace it fully. And watch it begin to disappear. The principal is this: Begin where you are-accept that. Then change and growth become possible.

Nathaniel Branden

#18. She had the right idea, old man, don't you think - to disappear before it gets too late?

Patrick Modiano

#19. Systems analysts rarely call their parents from across the country with mysterious problems. Still more rarely do they disappear. It is not part of the technical mentality to disappear.

R.A. MacAvoy

#20. Gorillas are in danger of being wiped out by the Ebola virus. I feel like we have limited time to get to know them and understand them and they're going to disappear - that's terrifically sad. Wouldn't it be great if we could stop that?

Sara Gruen

#21. I'm really lucky because my goal, as an actor, is to disappear into the characters that I'm playing.

Jessica Chastain

#22. Accountability in public office is but one manifestation of this cultural inheritance, and we should not be surprised that it is the first thing to disappear when the utopians and the planners take over.

Roger Scruton

#23. Accept that to be adult is to disappear, is to learn to hide to the point of vanishing?

Elena Ferrante

#24. You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.

Patrice Motsepe

#25. She was half running away from the hall, and she knew that she had done something cataclysmic, and she wanted nothing more than to be swallowed up by the darkness and to disappear forever.

J.K. Rowling

#26. The reason you do this stuff - comedy, plays, movies - is to be seized by something, to disappear in the service of an idea.

Mike Nichols

#27. Success underwater depends mostly on how you conduct yourself. Diving can be the most relaxing experience in the world. Your weight seems to disappear. Space travel will be available only to a few individuals for some time, but the oceans are available to almost everyone - now.

Sylvia Earle

#28. I don't understand it, sir. What's the point of trying to fix a world were in so briefly? Where's the meaning in all that work if it's just going to disappear? Without any warning?

Isaac Marion

#29. If you and your church were to disappear off the face of the earth tomorrow, would anyone in the community around you notice you were gone? And if the community did even notice would they say 'we are really glad they are gone', or 'we are really going to miss them'?

Timothy Keller

#30. Our top design objective was for Kindle Paperwhite to disappear in your hands - to get out of the way - so you can enjoy your reading. We hope

Anonymous

#31. I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold her, smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die.

Brooke Shields

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. Creators shouldn't feel this way about their fans. I shouldn't want them to disappear. They're the reason I have . . . the reason I have anything.

Francesca Zappia

#35. The black well of sky and stars went out and out and out forever; her body and her complexity seemed to disappear.

Maxine Hong Kingston

#36. She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.

Alice Hoffman

#37. Why are they going to disappear him?'
I don't know.'
It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.

Joseph Heller

#38. The West, both the elites (consciously) and ordinary people (sub-consciously), want Russia to go to hell; to disappear, drown, explode. It is because Russia is once again defending humanism all over the world.

Andre Vltchek

#39. I like to disappear in the parts I play.

Mark Ruffalo

#40. I needed my daughter to disappear from my sight. If I could have had a wish, I would have wished her away.

Ben Marcus

#41. If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a void much more terrifying than all the recesses and the deviations for which wine is regarded as responsible.

Charles Baudelaire

#42. The problem of individual differences and group differences would not be made to disappear by abolishing tests. One cannot treat a fever by throwing away the thermometer.

Arthur Jensen

#43. During a movie, you lose all ability to focus on your own interests. Your life is in service. After that you just want to disappear, switch off the phone, and sleep and watch movies for a month.

Robert Richardson

#44. The things that prey on my mind in London seem to disappear as soon as I find myself in a different environment. Survival mode kicks in.

Hayley Atwell

#45. When a Chameleon player is gradually disappearing, it is no longer allowed to choose the last part to disappear as 'genitalia...

Michael Atamanov

#46. Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.

Douglas Coupland

#47. Some things are not meant to disappear until their purpose has been met.

Christina Farley

#48. I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.

Liya Kebede

#49. I keep waiting for you to disappear. Nothing I want this much could be real.

Kit Rocha

#50. It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.

Nicole Kidman

#51. Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

John F. Kennedy

#52. I really want to disappear, grow a beard, not talk to anyone, not make any friends ... I just want to disappear and study.

Rivers Cuomo

#53. The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.

Thomas Merton

#54. I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disappear and become formless. I lived in a very imaginary world. I loved poetry and wrote my first novel when I was 9. It was about a little girl and the people she met in the woods.

Amanda Plummer

#55. So who has more at stake? A young man trying to get laid with the least amount of white water before he ships off to his next assignment and has nothing but a memory of a nice month on the beach, or a family that desperately needs and wants old heartaches to disappear?

Roxanne St. Claire

#56. Tears flow and smiles fade to the same rhythm of life, to disappear together in the bottomless abyss.

Remy De Gourmont

#57. As much as there are intellectual choices to be made and all the rest of it, a great actor has the ability really, to disappear and lose themself in a kind of mystical fashion. My appreciation and fascination with true acting is really all over the book, definitely.

Rebecca Miller

#58. I felt ancient and exhausted. I felt like a prisoner within myself and as if I was just watching a movie that was playing before my eyes. I just wanted all of it to end and disappear; I wanted to disappear.

J.M. Northup

#59. I used words without precautions. I wanted to disappear into them, I fled into the bovaryism of the writer trying to create an effect.

Storm Jameson

#60. You don't have to be invisible to disappear.

Rebecca McNutt

#61. When I was twenty I was in love with words, a wordsmith. I didn't know enough to know when people were letting words get in their way. Now I like the words to disappear, like a transparent curtain.

Wallace Stegner

#62. He just watched the way Finnikin's hands rested on Evanjalin's neck and he rubbed his thumb along her jaw and the way his tongue seemed to disappear inside her mouth as if he needed a part of her to breathe himself.

Melina Marchetta

#63. Don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want - freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.

James Altucher

#64. I have a longing for fiction, to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

#65. Words have been the fine threads that have tied me to this world, forbidding me to disappear

B.N. Toler

#66. It is easy to disappear when no one is looking at you.

Kristin Hannah

#67. I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.

Yulia Tymoshenko

#68. In a snowfall that covers the winter grass a white heron uses his own whiteness to disappear.

Dogen

#69. What I love about the currawongs is the way in which they appear from nowhere and, for a brief period, rule the garden's soundscape, only to disappear as quickly as they arrived.

John Gould

#70. July 4th fireworks exhale over the Hudson sadly.
It is beautiful that they have to disappear.
It's like the time you said I love you madly.
That was an hour ago. It's been a fervent year.

Frederick Seidel

#71. Many types of people will have to disappear ... Many people will want to join us. Possibly we will conquer the whole world. People will die young but it will be fun. We will burn the corpses of the heroes.

Eduard Limonov

#72. Writing is not destined to leave traces, but to erase, by traces, all traces, to disappear in the fragmentary space of writing more definitely than one disappears in the tomb.

Maurice Blanchot

#73. We are not lonely, because we chose to be alone.
We are not lost, because we chose to disappear.

Steven Wilson

#74. When you prepare well; you will appear well. For you not to disappear when you have appeared you must deal with fear and close your ears to what people say for you not to be discouraged.

Osunsakin Adewale

#75. I've told you before and I'll tell you again. The strong survive and the weak disappear. We do not intend to disappear.

Jimmy Hoffa

#76. Antonio Bolivar Salvador has an incredible story because he's one of the last Ocaina people left. The Ocaina people are - and the Ocaina language is basically about to disappear in this generation. You know, there are very few people that speak it. And he's one of them.

Ciro Guerra

#77. The U.K. is already disadvantaged on the wholesale cost of energy, and then it puts taxes on it. Anybody who's an energy user is just going to disappear.

Jim Ratcliffe

#78. Now, every day when I wake up I am grateful. I have to be. And I have to count the things that are abundant in my life. Literally count them. If I don't they will begin to disappear. I've watched them disappear before. I don't want it to happen again. In

James Altucher

#79. Books are how I learned to disappear, to live in a world other than the uncomfortable physical one.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#80. There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.

Calvin Coolidge

#81. To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

Michael Caine

#82. I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.

Tom Hanks

#83. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear.

Sherman Alexie

#84. I knew the marks were never going to disappear. They were always there. Permanent in the deepest sense of the word.

Keary Taylor

#85. I curl up, make myself smaller, try to disappear entirely. Wrapped in silence, I slide my bracelet that reads 'mentally disoriented' around and around my wrist.

Suzanne Collins

#86. By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was too thin to support major backlist retailers.

Jason Epstein

#87. I can stab myself, but I can't reach the knife to pull it out. And then everything starts to disappear. I start to fade away, too. Only the knife is always there - to the very end.

Haruki Murakami

#88. discursive regimes of the late eighteenth century drew the figure of man into the sand, and even if he manages to survive the etching, typing, and storing of the late nineteenth-century analog media, he is certain to disappear with the compression of that sand into silicon.

Geoffrey Winthrop-Young

#89. The first things people always ask are,
why?
And how?

But not with me.

I don't want to do anything.
I don't want to be anything.
I want to disappear elegantly.
I want people to look for my goodbye note
and find nothing but smoke.

Lora Mathis

#90. In meditation and/or intense life interfaces, our personal view is often superseded by Self's, causing our apparent reality and all of it's limitations to disappear.

James R. Swartz

#91. Creativity means you have to disappear, you have to allow God to be.

Rajneesh

#92. Email is not going to disappear. Possibly ever. Until the robots kill us all.

Paul Buchheit

#93. Does this mean that religious consumption will increase online? That could be. We do not know yet, but to expect religion to disappear because of online technology is like expecting people to stop listening to music because Napster, Spotify and Wimp are offering us all the music we want online

Torkel Brekke

#94. It is better to burn than to disappear.

Albert Camus

#95. Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.

Gary Ross

#96. There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.

Anais Nin

#97. Considering the fact that I have been in the spotlight more or less since I was 18, there is an aspect of normality to my public profile, which I have grown to live with. As much as I would like to disappear into the crowd, my work won't let me - difficult as it is for my family.

Cat Stevens

#98. Some day we will try
To do as many things as are possible
And perhaps we shall succeed at a handful
Of them, but this will not have anything
To do with what is promised today, our
Landscape sweeping out from us to disappear
On the horizon.

John Ashbery

#99. There, it was over. How was it so easy to disappear from someone else's life? Perhaps it was with the same ease that you enter it. A chance meeting, a few words exchanged, and a relationship begins. A chance falling out, a few words exchanged and that same relationship is over.

Antoine Laurain

#100. The human race might be about to disappear, but not before putting on a two-year frenzy of recreational sex.

Neal Stephenson