Vanishing Quotes

• I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Eye, Thinking

  John Steinbeck (2012). “The Portable Steinbeck”, p.42, Penguin

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• Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Earth, Photographer

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• Life itself is vanishing fast. Make haste for eternity.

  Robert E. Murray

  Haste, Eternity

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• I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Funny, Friendship, Forgiveness

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"

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• 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.

  Susan Sontag

  Beauty, Time, Past

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.69, Macmillan

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• Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.

  Ben Hecht

  Party, Greatness, Glowing

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• America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking open space, and of an over-all environment that is diminished daily by pollution and noise and blight.

  Stewart Udall

  Nature, Land, America

  Stewart L. Udall (1963). “The Quiet Crisis”

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• Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

  Jim Morrison

  Inspirational, Positive, Freedom

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

  Dan Millman

  Disappointment, Expectations, World

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• I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.

  Dale Carnegie

  Blessing, Irritation, Air

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• The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.

  Douglas Coupland

  Weather, World, Wonder

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.87, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Photographer, Deals

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• There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is a beauty which God grants when by His grace men are born again. That kind of beauty never vanishes but blooms eternally.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Beauty, God, Christian

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• The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Blow, Optimism, Shadow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.22, Harvard University Press

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• 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.

  James Salter

  Book, Writing, Past

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• We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Life, Lawyer, Seems

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).

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• If you can believe, worry and anxiety will vanish

  T. B. Joshua

  Believe, Worry, Anxiety

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• 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.

  Jules Renard

  Death, Ignorance, Fire

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.41, Tin House Books

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

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Life, Religious, Falling In Love

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• They come out of nowhere, instantaneously materialize and just as quickly they break and vanish. Chasing after such fleeting mirages is a complete waste of time. That is what I choose to do with my life.

  Miki Dora

  Life, Time, Choices

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

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Fables (Book VIII)". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668-1694.

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• It meant nothing to him any longer, only a faint tinge of sadness--and somewhere within him, a drop of pain moving briefly and vanishing, like a raindrop on the glass of a window, its course in the shape of a question mark.

  Ayn Rand

  Pain, Moving, Sadness

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.17, Penguin

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• With her foot on the threshold she waited a moment longer in a scene which was vanishing even as she looked, and then, as she moved and took Minta's arm and left the room, it changed, it shaped itself differently; it had become, she knew, giving one last look at it over her shoulder, already the past.

  Virginia Woolf

  Past, Feet, Giving

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.110, Virginia Woolf

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• There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Moving, Past, Staying

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2004). “The Complete Short Stories and Essays”, p.850, Simon and Schuster

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• Even though in the world you are the most learned scholar of the time, Behold the vanishing of this world and this time!

  Rumi

  World, Awareness, Scholar

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