Quotes about Disappearance

There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.

She blazed, burned herself out, and then disappeared into the silent deep, sounding the echoes of remembrance throughout a hollow and shattered heart.

I suppose in about fortnight we shall be told that he has been seen in San Francisco. It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.

And a bird who was on a crooked branch is suddenly gone without my even hearing him.

Some odd things were found; among other things the skeleton of an ourang-outang which disappeared from the Jardin des Plantes in 1800, a disappearance probably connected with the famous and incontestable appearance of the devil in the Rue des Bernardins in the last year of the eighteenth century. The poor devil finally drowned himself in the sewer.

This is one of the greatest breakthroughs in success psychology. You develop the courage you desire by disciplining yourself repeatedly to do the thing you fear until that fear eventually disappears—and it will.

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.

If she were seventeen at the time of her father's disappearance she must be seven-and-twenty now--a sweet age, when youth has lost its self-consciousness and become a little sobered by experience.

Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.

Most of the great universities of the West were founded with the conviction that theology is the queen of the disciplines. (...) Now, in the latter part of the twentieth century, that tradition has almost disappeared.

And according to what we have of God will be our real humility, because humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.