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Disappearance Quotes

Lines on what fades, vanishes and is lost

These quotes treat disappearance broadly: work drying up in struggling communities, a missing flight that gripped the world, and markets losing their competitive edge to endless mergers. Our Architecture page covers a steadier kind of structure by comparison.

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

Quotes by William Julius Wilson

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

Quotes by Stephane Mallarme

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

Quotes by Stanley Milgram

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...

Quotes by Roberto Burle Marx

Aesthetic Quotes

The 'crownd' is still the unit, the favourite coin of the labourers, especially the elder folk. They use the word something in the same sense as the dollar, and look with regret upon the gradual disappearance of the broad silver...

Quotes by Richard Jefferies

The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.

Quotes by Najib Razak

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

Quotes by Mary Baker Eddy

There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing.

Quotes by Martin Filler

The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist sector and the gradual disappearance of the system of free enterprise under a free representative government.

Quotes by John T. Flynn

Ale Quotes

The merger mania which goes on and on and on is the sign of the disappearance of competition. As we deregulate, the mergers increase, which means there's less and less competition. At the national level, at the regional level, but...

Quotes by John Ralston Saul

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.

Quotes by Jerzy Kosinski

The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.

Quotes by Jack Schwartz

The time necessary for the disappearance of half the atoms, called the half-life, is a fundamental characteristic of each radio-element; according to the substance, the value of the half-life varies between a fraction of a second and millions of years.

Quotes by Irene Joliot-Curie

The disappearance of Israel as a Zionist project, through war, cultural exhaustion or demographic momentum, is... plausible... Many Israelis see the demise of the country as not just possible, but probable.

Quotes by Ian Lustick

Anti-Semitism Quotes

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.

Quotes by Hermann Ebbinghaus

If you are asking did I support the Soviet Union, yes I did. Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life.

Quotes by George Galloway

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?

Quotes by Garrett Hardin

From sublime affairs of state to the stark and vulgar popular culture of our own contemporary lives, let's make this descent into the lower registers together and recognize the good, nasty fun of 'Gone Girl,' Chicago writer Gillian Flynn's novel...

Quotes by Alan Cheuse

Frequently Asked Questions

What kinds of disappearance do these quotes talk about?
The quotes cover several distinct kinds of disappearance: work vanishing from struggling communities, a missing aircraft that captured global attention, and market competition eroding as mergers pile up. It's a broad, somewhat somber theme.
Why would someone search for quotes about disappearance?
People often look for this kind of language when processing loss, uncertainty, or change, whether that's a missing person, a vanished opportunity, or something structural slipping away over time.
Is there a quote here about a real historic disappearance?
Yes, one quote references the disappearance of flight MH370, describing how it tested collective resolve at the time.
Does any quote connect disappearance to economics?
Two quotes do: one on the disappearance of work as a driver of social breakdown, and an older one warning that unchecked drift could see free enterprise gradually give way to a more controlled economic system.
Where can I find more thoughtful, reflective quotes like these?
Our Aesthetic collection offers a different but equally reflective set of lines.

One line even reaches back into older economic warnings about free enterprise eroding under unchecked drift. For more reflective reading, try our Aesthetic collection.