Faded Quotes
284 quotes by 225 authors
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In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color…
— Jeremiah Wright
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It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Beauty itself soon fades, and when a woman has beauty and nothing else, well, it's like putting all the goods in the shop window, isn't…
— Henry Arthur Jones
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She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The great Pioneer Missionaries all had 'inverted homesickness' this passion to call that country their home which was most in need of the Gospel. In…
— Samuel Marinus Zwemer
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The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away.
— Sophocles
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The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place…
— Lytton Strachey
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The crucified but risen Jesus appears in the believing, assembled community of the church. That this sense of the risen, living Jesus has faded in…
— Edward Schillebeeckx
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Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and…
— Dan Simmons
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The church has lost her testimony. She has no longer anything to say to the world. Her once robust shout of assurance has faded away…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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That rock and roll, eh? That rock and roll, it just won't go away. It might hibernate from time to time, sink back into the…
— Alex Turner
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As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning,…
— Jack Handey
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No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew…
— Norton Juster
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In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols dragging their bellies…
— Ken Wilber
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The South is like my favorite pair of blue jeans. It's shrunk some, faded a bit, got a few holes in it. it just might…
— John Shelton Reed
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Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Having a separate bathroom for the black domestic was just the way things were done. It had faded out in new homes by the time…
— Kathryn Stockett
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The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past.
— Alfred Bunn
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When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
— Zhuangzi
Who Wrote These Faded Quotes
225 authors contributed a total of 284 Faded Quotes, led by these top contributors: