"Disappear" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... whatever she does and in all probability such deaths are due to some law of anticipation by which organisms in which morbous germs have taken up their residence (modern science has conclusively shown that only the plasmic substance can be said to be immortal) tend to disappear at an increasingly earlier stage of development, an arrangement which, though productive of pain to some of our feelings (notably the maternal), is nevertheless, some of us think, in the long run beneficial to the ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... his luggage and went out. She saw his long, rustic form disappear behind the bushes of ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... Could the materialists inaugurate their belauded age of reason, sentiment would perish utterly in that pitiless atmosphere, and the world be reduced to a basis of brute selfishness. The word duty would disappear, for why should man die for man in a world whose one sole god was the dollar. Why should a Damien sacrifice himself if selfish ease be the only divinity? If there be no Fatherhood of God there can be no Brotherhood of Man—we are but accidents, spawn of the sun and slime, ...
— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
... said his father. "You and I, dear boy, will lie at peace in the earth that bore us, and our names will disappear as surely as our ...
— A Room With A View • E. M. Forster
... the Great Charter and the attempted revolution which followed. The reign of John was the culmination of a long tendency in English history, most rapid since the accession of his father, towards the establishment of an absolutism in which the rights of all classes would disappear and the arbitrary will of the king be supreme. The story of his reign should reveal how very near that result was of accomplishment. A monarchy had been forming in the last three reigns, and very rapidly ...
— The History of England From the Norman Conquest - to the Death of John (1066-1216) • George Burton Adams
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