Disappearance Quotes

“If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

“Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“I dreamed of you every night. It felt so real. And when I'd wake up the next morning, it was like your disappearance was fresh. Like you'd left me all over again.”
― Brodi Ashton, Everneath

“Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape

“If you didn't pay attention to the buoys and markers, you'd hit something.  Not enough people paid attention.  Our marinas were swamped with repairs.”
― Albert Waitt, The Ruins of Woodman's Village

“She had the right idea, old man, don't you think - to disappear before it gets too late?”
― Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures

“I didn't know whether it was the events of the night or the coffee that had made me jittery.  I reached into the cabinet over the sink and pulled down the bottle of Jack Daniels.”
― Albert Waitt, The Ruins of Woodman's Village

“With a white skullcap and mustache, he looked like every other worker in the building. No one knew he was a MEASS terrorist.”
― Karl Braungart, Triple Deception

“We are not lonely, because we chose to be alone.
We are not lost, because we chose to disappear.”
― Steven Wilson

“Will the day tell its secret
Before it disappears,
Becomes timeless night.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987

“Something I learned very quickly was that grieving was complicated by lack of certainty, that the hope inherent in a missing loved one was also a species of curse. People posted about children who had gone missing upwards of fifteen years ago and whose faces were now impossible to conjure, about friends who had messaged to confirm a meeting place and then simply never showed up. In almost every case, the sense of loss was convoluted by an ache of possibility, by the almost-but-not-quite-negligible hope of reprieve. Deus ex machina – the missing loved one thrown back down to earth. Grief is selfish: we cry for ourselves without the person we have lost far more than we cry for the person – but more than that, we cry because it helps. The grief process is also the coping process and if the grief is frozen by ambiguity, by the constant possibility of reversal, then so is the ability to cope.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“ليلتها، كنت قاسياً معها.. لكنني لم أعاتبها خشية أن تعاود الغياب.. ولم تسألني هي عن سبب خشونتي، ربما لأنها كانت تدرك أسبابه!.. كنت خائفاً جداً لأنني أعرف بأنني قاب قوسين أو أدنى من اختفائها!..

سألتها بعد ذلك بأيام: كيف تفعلين هذا؟!.. كيف تختفين فجأ وتظهرين فجأة؟!..

قالت بسخرية: أتظن بأنني ساحرة؟!..

- لماذا تجيبين الأسئلة بالأسئلة؟!..”
― أثير عبدالله النشمي, في ديسمبر تنتهي كل الأحلام

“Gentlemen, how did the Tariq’Allah find out about the weapon? Was it from sources in the United States or Iraq?”
― Karl Braungart, Triple Deception

“What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, Finding Beauty in a Broken World

“The fourth man in the terrorist team was Conor Lenihan. Conor had been born in Catholic Belfast and brought up in the sectarian ways of his peers.”
― Michael Parker, The Eagle's Covenant

“Disappear for a while! Let the people miss you! And this is what the sun does with the sunset! When you reappear, you are much loved!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Only a few months into our marriage, we started marking off areas in the apartment as "Nothing Places," in which one could be assured of complete privacy, we agreed that we never would look at the marked-off zones, that they would be nonexistent territories in the apartment in which one could temporarily cease to exist, the first was in the bedroom, by the foot of the bed, we marked it off with red tape on the carpet, and it was just large enough to stand in, it was a good place to disappear, we knew it was there but we never looked at it, it worked so well that we decided to create a Nothing Place in the living room, it seemed necessary, because there are times when one needs to disappear while in the living room, and sometimes one simply wants to disappear, we made this zone slightly larger so that one of us could lie down in it, it was a rule that you never would look at that rectangle of space, it didn't exist, and when you were in it, neither did you, for a while that was enough, but only for a while.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“The only comfort I found was in planning to disappear.”
― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

“The two impulses cannot be separated. The desire to have a life and the desire to disappear from it. The world is unlivable and yet we live in it every day.”
― Laura van den Berg, The Third Hotel

“Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemos.”
― Bernard Of Cluny, Scorn for the World: Bernard of Cluny's De Contemptu Mundi

“You need to lose yourself and disappear in the depths of the repetitions? Find a coast and watch the repetitive waves! Soon your mind vanishes away and when your mind disappears you disappear!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“No relatives, no friends, nobody. Doesn't that seem strange to you? Someone disappears and no one gives a damn?”
― Rutu Modan, Exit Wounds

“It's the most beautiful disappearance ever.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

“The building looked even more spectacular to Ngozi than it had in Femi’s phone pic. 
A pale cream rather than true white, it was two stories high with cappuccino trim and dark, 
reflecting windows. A central balcony overlooked the driveway.
“Wow,” Ngozi murmured. “The White House.”
― Kwei Quartey, Last Seen in Lapaz

“Dressed in an expensive-looking dark
gray suit, the man was in his early sixties and had the air of one
accustomed to giving orders, not carrying them out.”
― Kwei Quartey, Last Seen in Lapaz

“The biggest problem in this world is the feeling that everything you do will fly away, blend into the void and disappear!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“For one can no more live without leaving tracks than one can without casting a shadow. S., as his eminence grise, is stealing his tracks, and he cannot fail to sense the magic to which he is being subjected. He is being photographed incessantly. The photograph here has neither a voyeuristic nor an archival function. Its simple message has the form: at this location, at such and such a time, in this particular light, someone was present. But at the same time it conveys the following: there was no point in being here, in such and such a place, and at such and such a time - and in fact no one was here; I was the one who followed him, and I can assure you that no one was here.
It is of no interest to know that someone is leading a double life. It is the tailing itself that supplies the other with a double life. The most ordinary of lives may be transfigured in this way; likewise, the most extraordinary of lives may be rendered trite. In any case, life thus succumbs to a strange attraction.”
― Jean Baudrillard

“I’m on trial for my own disappearance?”
― Charles Yu

“This was a time when many people were disappearing for no logical reason.”
― Ahmed Saadawi

“My door was open when you needed me, when you didn't need me anymore, it was just the disappearance of interests.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih