Disappearance Quotes - Page 2

• A hundred percent of marriages end in divorce, disappearance or death.

  Steve Aylett

  Divorce, Ends, Hundred

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• Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.

  Alain de Botton

  Loss, Frustration, Intellectual

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• Genocide involves the attempt to achieve the disappearance of a group by whatever means. It does not have to be violent, it could be a combination of policies that would lead to a certain group dying out.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Mean, Dying, Groups

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• El nuestro es el siglo de los viajes forzados de las desapariciones. El siglo de la gente que ve impotente cómo otros, que estaban cerca de ella, desaparecen en el horizonte.

  John Berger

  Viajes, Gente, Horizonte

  John Berger (2011). "Keeping a Rendezvous", p.12, Vintage.

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• There is only the constant knowledge and enjoyment of the Heart, moment to moment, through the instant of all conditions of appearance and disappearance. Of this I am perfectly certain. I am That.

  Adi Da

  Heart, Moments, Appearance

  Adi Da Samraj (2005). “Easy Death: Spiritual Wisdom on the Ultimate Transcending of Death and Everything Else”, p.3, North Atlantic Books

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• No hay muerte para los que aman perfectamente, sólo desaparición, que con el tiempo se puede soportar.

  Harriet Martineau

  Grief, May

  Harriet Martineau, Elisabeth Sanders Arbuckle (1983). “Harriet Martineau's Letters to Fanny Wedgwood”, p.30, Stanford University Press

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• Se trata de la mayor pérdida de seres vivos que componen nuestra biodiversidad desde la desaparición de los dinosaurios.

  Peter Garrett

  Loss, Space, Generations

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• De vez en cuando conviene una desaparición. Desaparecer. Una salida. Un periodo indeterminado de indisponibilidad. Cada persona, cada persona cuerda, mantiene un refugio, o una serie de refugios, con este fin. Un lugar, o varios lugares, donde puede, en sentido figurado si no literal, suspender su pertenencia a la raza humana.

  John Murray

  Raza, Orden, Soledad

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• Las carreras de galgos son un negocio de apuestas autorregulado que depende de la cría incontrolada y la desaparición inexplicable de miles de perros cada año. Es una situación inaceptable e indefendible.

  Annette Crosbie

  Perro, Juego, Yo

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• Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.

  Adyashanti

  Soul, Soul Searching

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• Sí, apoyé a la Unión Soviética, y creo que la desaparición de la Unión Soviética es la mayor catástrofe de mi vida.

  George Galloway

  Pensamiento, Apoyo, Sindicatos

  "Sadam y yo". Entrevista con Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. 16 de septiembre de 2002.

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• The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression, but also for enthusiastic justifications for slavery, persecution, abandonment of small children, torture, and genocide... Moreover, religion enshrined hierarchy, authority, and inequality... It was the age of equality that brought about the disappearance of such religious appurtenances as the auto-da-fe and burning at the stake.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Religious, Children, Rights

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• The retreat and disappearance of glaciers—there are only 160,000 left—means we're burning libraries and damaging the planet, possibly beyond repair. Bit by bit, glacier by glacier, rib by rib, we're living the Fall.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Fall, Mean, Library

  Gretel Ehrlich (2010). “The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold”, p.53, Vintage

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• The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Faith, Thinking, Government

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• The disappearance of the heroic ideal is always accompanied by the growth of commercialism. There is a cause-and-effect relationship here, for the man of commerce is by the nature of things a relativist; his mind is constantly on the fluctuating values of the marketplace, and there is no surer way to fail than to dogmatize and moralize about things.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Growth, Mind

  "Ideas Have Consequences". Book by Richard Weaver, p. 32, 1948.

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• Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes.

  Enlace Kelly

  Life, Goodbye, Series

  Kelly Link (2001). “Stranger Things Happen: Stories”, p.143, Small Beer Press

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• real freedom is not a matter of the shifting of advantage from one sex to the other or from one class to another. Real freedom means the disappearance of advantage, and primarily of economic advantage.

  Suzanne La Follette

  Sex, Freedom, Real

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• Dominicus Corea had a posthumous son, Lewis Corea who became the Dissawe of Uva. Sir Paul Peiris wrote that `With the disappearance of Dominicus Corea, came a short lull in military operations of which the Portuguese officials availed themselves to give free rein to that rapacity which so frequently disgraced their careers in the East'. Dominicus Corea was succeeded by his brother Simon, as Dissawe of the Sat Korale, Kotte and Sitawaka.

  Dominicus Corea

  Brother, Military, Son

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• The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.

  Simone Weil

  Ideas, Firsts, Weakness

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• [History]... is nothing else but the rise and disappearance of races.

  Arthur Kemp

  Carrera

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• I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be space and that it represents an important life insurance for our future survival, as it could prevent the disappearance of humanity by colonizing other planets.

  Stephen Hawking

  Believe, Race, Space

  "'Colonize planets to save the human race' – Professor Stephen Hawking", www.rt.com. February 20, 2015.

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• [Tras su desaparición de 18 días en 1974:] Quiero mucho a mi marido, pero no me preguntó cuando se presentó a alcalde ni me consultó para presentarse a gobernador. Estaría bien que me lo pidiera. ... He sido la hija de mi madre, la hija de mi padre, la esposa de mi marido, la madre de mis seis hijos y la abuela de mis once nietos, pero nunca he sido yo. Pero ahora lo soy porque me fui. Soy una mujer cambiada.

  Angela Alioto

  Hija, Madre, Correr

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• The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity's language, technology, and buildings are an extension of its constructive faculties, the desert alone is an extension of its capacity for absence, the ideal schema of humanity's disappearance.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Technology, Silence, Humanity

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• Performance's being...becomes itself through disappearance.

  Peggy Phelan

  Actuaciones

  "Unmarked: The Politics of Performance". Book by Ann O'Day Maples Professor of the Arts/Professor of English Peggy Phelan, Peggy Phelan, 1993.

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• Que el hombre aprenda a buscar lo permanente en lo mutable y fugaz; que aprenda a soportar la desaparición de las cosas que acostumbraba reverenciar; sin perder su reverencia; que aprenda que está aquí, no para trabajar, sino para ser trabajado; y que, aunque el abismo se abra bajo el abismo, y la opinión desplace a la opinión, todo está finalmente contenido en la Causa Eterna.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Looks, Fleeting

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.396

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