Anthony LaPaglia Quotes

It's an unknown, it's a disappeared. It has no identity, it's neither alive nor dead...it's disappeared

A lot of people assumed I faded off into the sunset.

When it comes to certain portions of our history, we've just forgotten it all.

Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.

Words writ in waters.

The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered handful of doves or dust might be reunited by a word, that a paper rose consumed by fire could be made to bloom from a pile of ash. But everyone knew that it was only an illusion. The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.

How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.

In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere.

And the history books forgot about us, and the bible didn’t mention us

The Invisible Man, who said to his wife, I don't care if it looks silly, don't stop! Never got a dinner!

They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

What? Okay, back up. How in the hell do you 'turn up missing'?

Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.

Who was I? The stranger was footsteps in the snow a long time ago.

Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes like so much salt. Deer apparently ascend bodily into heaven; the brightest oriole fades into leaves.

Hes gone. Hes just gone.

Our past has gone into history.

I learned a lot that night. For example, that part of being the magician's assistant means coming face-to-face with illusion. That invisibility is really just knotting your body in a certain way and letting the black curtain fall over you. That people don't vanish into thin air; that when you can't find someone, it's because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere.

What is forgotten cannot be healed, and that which cannot be healed easily becomes the cause of greater evil.

What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief.

Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes.Sometimes, people can discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes, we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying enough attention.

The strands are all there; to the memory nothing is ever lost.

Strange how short-sighted being invisible can make you.