#disappear

When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#awareness #becomes #begin #being #disappears

I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#any #back #behind #bullet #crocodile

When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will be delighted to do cancel The Simpsons. ↗

— Harry Shearer

#cancel #delighted #disappeared #does #find

Disappear, she says. I love that word. ↗

— Will Christopher Baer

#words #love

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things. ↗

— Syd Barrett

#disappearing #i #most #things

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon. ↗

— John Berger

#close #disappear #enforced #helplessly #horizon

When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#become #branches #case #certain #cultures

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#disappears #either #else #flower #forest

But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole. ↗

— Sergey Brin

#accessible #after #anyone #black #black hole

You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life. ↗

— Jon Crosby

#actually #death #disappeared #dying #emotion