Vanished Quotes

• How many people must have sailed out and vanished on the Pacific before you found Easter Island?

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Vanished
  • Pacific
  • Sailed

• The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Life
  • Wind
  • Existed

• The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit; a star gleaming in our inward night.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Spirit
  • Memory
  • Vanished

• The sense of urgency has almost completely vanished.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • Completely
  • Urgency
  • Vanished

• Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.

  

  Wilfred Burchett
  • Burned
  • Ashes
  • Explosion

• I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.

  

  Robert Frost
  • House
  • Summer
  • Lonely

• Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Great
  • Loved
  • Vanished

• Interpretation reached such proportions that the real vanished.

  

  Erich Auerbach
  • Real
  • Interpretation
  • Proportions

• All trace of the woman he had seen had vanished, leaving behind a shadow with perfect posture and no conversation. She was right. Everyone would wonder if he flirted with her. He wouldn’t even know how to manage it. One couldn’t flirt with a lump.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Woman
  • Shadow
  • Trace

• EACH MORNING THERE WAS a moment, before I had fully awakened, when my mind still groped its clumsy way back to consciousness, my body not yet remembered, reality not yet acknowledged. That moment was always full of pure, sweet, uncontrollable hope. I did not ask for this hope to come; I did not even want it, for it trailed disappointment in its wake. Yet there it was, hovering within me—hope that my illness had vanished with the night and my health had returned magically with daybreak.

  

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  • Hope
  • Health
  • Morning

• And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Voice
  • Hill
  • Vanished

• At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Burning
  • Vanished
  • Executioner

• I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I'd read before all memory of them vanished.

  

  Debra Hamel
  • Started
  • Recording
  • Vanished