#vanish

I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished. ↗

— Black Elk

#again #back #came #changed #dancing

At the end of the Middle Ages, nobody would ever have expected the monasteries to vanish from the scene within a generation - yet they did. Change does happen. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#change #did #does #end #ever

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined. ↗

— Philip Guston

#am #arbitrary #arrives #destined #falls

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

#difficulties #disappear #effect #magical #obstacles

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#others #ourselves #see #spot #us

In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished. ↗

— James Buchan

#altogether #between #both #cities #distinction

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

#anticipated #attractions #based #began #book

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#fires #his #impossibilities #made #man

I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#corner #day #down #eye #her

I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#had #how #i #i do #never