Fade Quotes
711 quotes by 514 authors
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The beach has a language of its own, with its undulating ribbons of silt, the imponderable hieroglyphs of bird tracks. The receding waves catch on…
— Franny Billingsley
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By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the Adagio it becomes…
— Steven Galloway
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Transience is the force of time that makes a ghost of every experience. There was never a dawn, regardless how beautiful or promising, that did…
— John O'Donohue
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I run because long after my footprints fade away, maybe I will have inspired a few to reject the easy path, hit the trails, put…
— Dean Karnazes
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But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous
— John le Carre
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I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from…
— Neil Gaiman
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It's quite simple really. Being always transcends appearance-that which only seems to be. Once you begin to know the being behind the very pretty or…
— William P. Young
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When gods die, they die hard. It's not like they fade away, or grow old, or fall asleep. They die in fire and pain, and…
— Gary D. Schmidt
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God…
— Anthony Trollope
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Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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You think you know what is just and what is not. I understand. We all think we know." I had no doubt, myself, then, that…
— J M Coetzee
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I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade…
— Kate Morton
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The child had indeed shut up but all the questions that had accumulated on his tongue circulated in his mouth, moved through the passages of…
— Elif Safak
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In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every…
— Nicholas Sparks
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If you don't live what you sing about, your mirror is gonna fade.
— Ani DiFranco
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We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we'd never loved them, as…
— Alice Hoffman
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Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain — Quaintest thoughts…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern star Beneath his…
— Walter de La Mare
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I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more…
— Lucy Grealy
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