Noam Chomsky

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. 'Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won't? How do I know there's anything there except what I'm conscious of?

American Activist

Gabriella Wilde

When you play a lead role, you're in pretty much every scene. It's incredibly tiring. You really have to disappear into the film because you have no time to do anything else. You are either awake and playing the character, or you are trying to catch up on sleep.

English Actress

Thich Nhat Hanh

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

Vietnamese Clergyman

George Takei

Radio dramas have disappeared. What we do have now is books on tape, which I find wonderful. I've done some of those. Otherwise, radio acting is now gone.

American Actor

Harry Graf Kessler

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

German Diplomat

Jayson Blair

Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.

American Journalist

Mark Twain

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

American Writer

Ehud Olmert

The enemies of peace have not disappeared.

Israeli Politician

Lawrence Durrell

British Writer

Robert Motherwell

American Artist

Use 'disappear' when something is no longer visible because it's blocked by something else.

Hidden by objects

'Disappear' is sometimes used to describe something that seems to vanish, because of a visual trick.

Visual tricks

We use 'disappear' when something or someone goes missing suddenly and it's surprising.

Unexpectedly lost

Apply 'disappear' to situations where there's no clear reason or explanation for the absence.

No explanation

Use 'disappear' when practices, languages, or traditions are fading over time.

Cultural fading

'Disappear' can mean the complete end of something that was once common or widespread.

End of existence

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