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Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said. -- Khaled Hosseini
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Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished. -- Og Mandino
The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business. -- Alex Berenson
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
The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion. -- Lytton Strachey
What's happening to our world? Imagine the year 2000 and our ozone layer has vanished... Our planet has a fever and she is burning up - what will you do? -- Charlene, Princess of Monaco
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. -- Swami Vivekananda
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. -- Victor Hugo
We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape. -- Henry Morton Stanley
Religion has been terribly tarnished in the course of time, its pristine purity has long since vanished under the regime of creed, and it is no longer Catholic, that is to say, Universal. -- Max Heindel
The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do deep research to make the thought and utterances of lost time credible. -- Simon Schama
In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished. -- James Buchan
For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time. -- George Sutherland
Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready. -- Hilary Mantel
When did I learn the Bible? When I was four or five years old. It's still the pull of my childhood, a fascination with the vanished world, and I can find everything except that world. -- Elie Wiesel
I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished. -- Hugh Leonard
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
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev is telling no tales. The older of the two brothers who committed the Boston Marathon bombings was likely the one who planned the attack, but when he died in a shootout with police just days after the blasts, his thoughts and motivations vanished with him. -- Jeffrey Kluger
It is a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the earth, except for two tiny vials, one locked in a highly secure facility at the Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta, and another stored in a similarly secure vault in Siberia. -- Michael Specter
Before Barack Obama took office, it looked like that pride could have vanished forever, but today, from the staggering depths of the Great Recession, the nation has had 29 straight months of job growth. Workers across my state and across the country are getting back the dignity of a good job and a good salary. -- Ted Strickland
We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for fuel but also plastic. If plastic vanished, there would be total chaos. We have to think quite carefully about using oil and its derivatives, because it's not going to be around forever. -- Margaret Atwood
After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove. -- Pete Sampras
You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanished. I mean, a lot of my good friends - when we were in high school, we would never have been able to hang out together because we were in such different cliques or whatever. Now, who cares? -- Brandon Sanderson
Ice Cold' is the eighth in my 'Rizzoli and Isles' thriller series. It was inspired by a true occurrence in the 1960s, now known as the 'Dugway Incident,' in which 6,000 sheep mysteriously died overnight in a remote area of Utah. I thought, 'What if it happened instead to people? What if the inhabitants of an entire village vanished overnight?' -- Tess Gerritsen
Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished. -- Rebecca Solnit
The love had just vanished. We're still friendly. -- Rush Limbaugh
The sense of urgency has almost completely vanished. -- Cleve Jones
All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart. -- Kabir
An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle and vanished. -- Abraham Maslow
He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family. -- Lance Morrow
I cherished hope, it is true, but it vanished when my person reflected . . . -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion. -- Junot Diaz
The vanished lives of all are filled with many shames. Therefore do not judge. -- Sri Yukteswar Giri
Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart -- Robert Frost
I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago. -- Robert Frost
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me -- Simone de Beauvoir
Courage! even sorrows, when once they are vanished, quicken the soul, as rain the valley. -- Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis
With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world. -- Richard Peck
Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village... a simultaneous happening -- Marshall McLuhan
With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West. -- Bryan Ward-Perkins
Coordinating there Events and objects with remote events And vanished objects. Making ornaments Of accidents and possibilities. -- Vladimir Nabokov
The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed. -- Iris Chang
And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished, for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare. -- H. P. Lovecraft
And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past. -- John Wyndham
the 'total overpaintings' developed... through incessant reworking. The original motif peeped through the edges. Gradually it vanished completely. -- Arnulf Rainer
You killed my Dad." Any trace of kindness or sympathy vanished from Rixon's eyes. "Well this is awkward. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
After three days without one, the desire to read a newspaper vanished. And really, one was happier without. -- Josephine Tey
The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has... -- E.A. Bucchianeri
The songs I had are withered Or vanished clean. Yet there are bright tracks Where I have been. -- Ivor Gurney
The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished; And what is love but a rose that fades? -- Edgar Lee Masters
Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has -- E.A. Bucchianeri
It was like there was some parallel universe we all vanished off to where we had all this sex. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth. -- Saint John Chrysostom
Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The person who did all of these things has gone away, vanished without a trace in the ecstasy of existence. -- Frederick Lenz
But then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I'll admit I created. -- Ellen Hopkins
The person who did all of these things has gone away, vanished without a trace in the ecstasy of existence. -- Frederick Lenz
What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished. -- Peter S. Beagle
I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone. -- Jeanette Winterson
Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished. -- Susan Choi
The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomimes. -- Iris Murdoch
Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better. -- Daniel Handler
The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy. -- Beaumont Newhall
The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough. -- James G. Frazer
I was trapped in admiration for what I had once admired, as a fly in amber remains the captive of some long-vanished pine. -- Gene Wolfe
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
What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words. -- Robert E. Howard
And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished. -- Jennifer Egan
The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable. -- Georges Rodenbach
Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly. -- Isaac Asimov
[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication. -- Dennis Oppenheim
When there hasn't been anything there, nothing can be said to have vanished from the place where it has not been.("Out Of The Deep") -- Walter de La Mare
Curses of vanished elders echoed down on me; too pretty, too soft, too pale, eyes far too full of the Devil, ah, that devilish smile -- Anne Rice
Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished. -- Richard Eder
At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe was a hill. -- E. M. Forster
We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant past -- Dmitri Volkogonov
As traditions of mourning wane, women's role as designated mourners has also vanished. In consequence, the woman elegist must summon her own resources as an artist. -- Susan Stewart
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The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had not known living men. -- Marc Bloch
The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains. -- Li Bai
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure, and go calmly on! -- Ben Jonson
I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism. -- Albert Speer
As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew. -- Alfred de Musset
We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever. -- Jose Saramago
Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Where do vanished objects go?" "Into nonbeing, which is to say, everything," replied Professor McGonagall. "Nicely phrased," replied the eagle door knocker, and the door swung open. -- J. K. Rowling
Christianity has in fact long vanished, not only from the reason but also from the life of mankind, and it is nothing more than a fixed idea. -- Ludwig Feuerbach
I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years I must endure the timid sun. -- William Butler Yeats
You've slipped away like a fistful of sand. You've vanished so quickly like a wind. Do you know how I long to hold you love of my life. -- Euginia Herlihy
Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America; or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and well in condo and suburb. -- Cynthia Ozick
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
If somehow every volunteer vanished tomorrow, so much of this country would come to a standstill: schools, hospitals and libraries. You can't name an institution that doesn't depend on volunteers. -- Al Roker
Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst. -- Albert Schweitzer
Remember evil Russian dictator Vladimir Putin? He vanished for 10 days. He had disappeared and there were a lot of rumors. One rumor was he had disappeared because he had himself executed. -- David Letterman
Sweet April-time-O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow Of promise, and red lips with longing paled, And backward-hidden hands that clutch the joys Of vanished springs, like flowers. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. -- Thomas Carlyle
Do not look sad. We shall meet soon again." "Please, Aslan", said Lucy,"what do you call soon?" "I call all times soon" said Aslan; and instantly he was vanished away. -- C. S. Lewis
This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique - and insignificant. -- Emile M. Cioran
Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one generation is never entirely so to the next. -- Carl Lotus Becker
For one crazy moment he had the notion of a vanished tribe of librarians, lost in the deep underground caverns of the Bodleian, a wild and savage tribe that fed on unwary travellers. -- Lavie Tidhar
I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that's vanished - the England of my childhood has actually disappeared. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
Then, as they stood there, struggling back and forth without avail, Eragon said in a low fierce voice, "I...see...you." A bright spark appeared in Arya's eyes, then vanished just as quickly. -- Christopher Paolini
All she's caught is fleas! She's a medicine cat, not a warrior. She should be helping me, not trying to pretend that her entire history vanished on the day the truth came out. -- Erin Hunter
The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun. It was one of the days when the glitter of winter shines through a pale haze of spring. -- Edith Wharton
For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time." -- George Sutherland
All right," said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone. -- Lewis Carroll
"All right", said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone. -- Lewis Carroll
There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him. -- Ramana Maharshi
It was amazing how instantaneously the choking fear vanished, amazing how suddenly the feeling of security washed over me - even before I was off the street - as soon as I heard his voice. -- Stephenie Meyer
Wherever public worship has been established and regularly aintained, idolatry has vanished from the face of the earth. There is not now a temple to a heathen god where the word of God is read. -- Matthew Simpson
The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work on it. -- al-Hasan al-Basri

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