Browsing Topic Best Vanishing Quotes

The more we wait, the more everything and everyone looks like a grain of sand escaping between our fingers before vanishing into the wind.

The vast majority of species that are vanishing, we haven’t even discovered yet. How can you possibly put them back in nature if the ecosystem is gone?

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 and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.

To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what is written down. Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we would be naked on earth.

Like vanishing dew,a passing apparitionor the sudden flashof lightning — already gone –thus should one regard one’s self.

In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word ‘coal’ is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity

Go back to The October Palace, which came out in 1994, and there are poems with windows, doors, the rooms of the gorgeous and vanishing palace that is this ordinary world and ordinary life. Jungian archetype would say the house is a figure for the experienced, experiencing self.

Art is a means of memorialization of the past, a record of a rapidly vanishing world; a means of exorcising, at least temporarily, the ravages of homesickness. To speak of ‘what is past, or passing or to come’-in the most meticulous language thereby to assure its permanence; to honor those we’ve loved and learned from and must outlive.

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules.

My first film, ‘Vanishing on 7th Street,’ I really just kinda went in for it. Just gave it my all at the auditions.

There was one bursting now, a delicate constellation of many-coloured stars which drifted down and lingered in the still air…. The final rocket went up, a really large one, a piece of reckless extravagance. Its sibilant uprush was impressive, dragonlike; it soared twice as high as any they had had before…. The sparks from the rocket came pouring down the sky in a slow golden cascade, vanishing one by one into a lake of darkness.

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 population. That breaks down to about one person in three hundred and twenty-five vanishing. Every year…. Maybe it’s a coincidence, but it’s almost the same loss ratio experienced by herd animals on the African savannah to large predators.

I was in a movie called ‘Vanishing on 7th Street,’ and that was my first leading role in a movie. It’s an apocalyptic thriller, and it’s really cool. It’s the first movie I ever shot.

We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.

Every so often a disappearance is in order. A vanishing. A checking out. An indeterminate period of unavailability. Each person, each sane person, maintains a refuge, or series of refuges, for this purpose. A place, or places, where they can, figuratively if not literally, suspend their membership in the human race.

The axe and saw are insanely busy, chips are flying thick as snowflakes, and every summer thousands of acres of priceless forests, with their underbrush, soil, springs, climate, scenery, and religion, are vanishing away in clouds of smoke, while, except in the national parks, not one forest guard is employed.

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

Just because you keep something a secret doesn’t mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.

I’m not vanishing into thin air.

Life itself is vanishing fast. Make haste for eternity.

The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I’m one of the intellectuals.

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects – making it possible… to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish.

My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. They’re my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing.

I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee – may he rot and perish. Good afternoon.

Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.