Disappearance Quotes

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

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Death, Sin, Disappear

  Mary Baker Eddy (1950). “The Christian Science Journal”

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• The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

  Stanley Milgram

  Leadership, Responsibility, Psychology

  Stanley Milgram (2017). “Obedience to Authority”, p.8, HarperCollins

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• But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.

  Alan Watts

  Letting Go, Effort, Ego

  Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage

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• When a person disappears, everything becomes impregnated with that person's presence. Every single object as well as every space becomes a reminder of absence, as if absence were more important than presence.

  Doris Salcedo

  Missing Someone, Space, Important

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• Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Philosophy, Ideas, Medicine

  Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

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• A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

  Roberto Burle Marx

  Garden, Artist, Color

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• At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Heart, Sexuality, Pornography

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• Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity.

  Peter Benenson

  Country, Government, Two

  The Amnesty International Annual Report (p. 22), 2002.

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• The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Hands, Poetic, Pure

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• Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

  Hannah Arendt

  Peace, Power, Opposites

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  America, United States, Cards

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• Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

  Garrett Hardin

  Decay, Morality, Certainty

  "Naked Emperors : Essays of a Taboo-Stalker". Book by Garrett Hardin, 1982.

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• Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.

  William Julius Wilson

  Work, Organization, Levels

  "When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor". Book by William Julius Wilson, 1996.

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• We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

  Simone Weil

  Christian, Religious, Adversity

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• Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Mean, Ephemeral, Danger

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.71, eKitap Projesi

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• I chose the shadows; they did not choose me. I stay here securely not just because I feel plain, but because disappearance is by now the easy way. The habit. The worn path that I can trod knowingly and be assured safe passage home.

  Rod McKuen

  Home, Solitude, Shadow

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• Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Stopping, Disappear, Made

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• With every glance I take in the 'negative-positive' of existence and the inevitability of impermanence to its glowing limits. Alone and haunted, I trust my inner eye, the heart. Everything, absolutely everything, becomes visible. Appearances, disappearances, nothing seems of secondary importance to me.

  Christophe Agou

  Heart, Eye, Glowing

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• While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Past, Reality, Years

  Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.49, Penguin

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• Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire audience waves its hat or claps its hands. But this natural enthusiasm is turned abruptly into something much less buoyant when it is learnt that this liberty weighs us down immediately with tremendous responsibilities. We now have to take all God's worries on our shoulders -now that we are become men like gods. It is at this point that the Anxiety and Despondency begin, ending in utter despair.

  Wyndham Lewis

  God, Responsibility, Men

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

  Karl Popper

  Names, Tolerance, Claims

  Karl Popper (2012). “The Open Society and its Enemies”, p.668, Routledge

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• Will the day tell its secret Before it disappears, Becomes timeless night.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Night, Secret, Timeless

  "Circling: 1978-1987". Book by Dejan Stojanovic, "Suns and the Night" (p. 45), 1993.

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• The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of the personal efforts of highly endowed individuals which the creation of this new world presupposed. Still less will he admit the notion that all these facilities still require the support of certain difficult human virtues, the least failure of which would cause the rapid disappearance of the whole magnificent edifice.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene

  Allen Ginsberg

  Suicide, Hero, Addiction

  Allen Ginsberg (1972). “The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971: Pocket Poets Number 30”, p.33, City Lights Books

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• It had struck me that the world was full of holes, holes which you could fall into, never to be seen again. I couldn't understand the difference between disappearance and death. Both seemed the same to me, both left holes. Holes in your heart holes in your life.

  Sally Gardner

  Fall, Heart, Differences

  Sally Gardner (2013). “Maggot Moon Adult Edition”, p.22, Hot Key Books

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