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Vanishing Quotes

In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.

Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

Already the dandelions Are changed into vanishing ghosts.

Celia Thaxter (1896). “The Poems of Celia Thaxter”

Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.

Roger Scruton (2011). “Beauty: A Very Short Introduction”, p.161, Oxford University Press

Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.

Paul Theroux (2011). “To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux”, p.83, Ivy Books

More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie.

Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.209, Chosen Books

But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules.

James Dashner (2016). “The Maze Runner Series Complete Collection (Maze Runner)”, p.206, Delacorte Press

We cannot develop and print a memory.

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked about with such profundity.

"Cornel West, 'Living And Loving Out Loud'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 29, 2009.

The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace.

Paul Theroux (2004). “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.

Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English”, p.187, Routledge