O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish…

By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it…

— Elizabeth Strout

Because civilization isn't a thing that you build and then there it is, you have it forever. It needs to be built constantly, recreated…

— Steven Galloway

So in the heart, When, fading slowly down the past, Fond memories depart, And each that leaves it seems the last; Long after all…

— Henry Van Dyke

Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that…

— Anonymous

I'm in the mood to get faded, so please bring your finest.

— Drake

“We are all slowly fading, some faster than others and I'm fading fast.”

— Jennifer Zhou

Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.

— Anna Seward

Time is passing like the wind is flowing, the love is fading like hearts stop beating.

— Morgan Ramsey

In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for…

— V. S. Naipaul

We have ignored this cancer for so long that the romance of environmental concern is already fading in the shadow of the grim realities…

— Edmund Muskie

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

— Carl Sandburg

The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

People make promises, and bear their souls to someone despite knowing how common it is for promises to be broken.

— Rachel Copeland

For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her…

— Albert Camus

“her voice suddenly gone as if it had snagged on the mist and was carried off into the failing light, leaving the phone dead…

— Mike McCormack