Faded Quotes

284 Faded quotes by 225 unique authors

The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away. — Sophocles
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past. — Alfred Bunn
When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments. — Zhuangzi
When the light has sharply faded And you have lost your way Let another's love guide you It can turn blackest night into day. — Kevin Myers
This world loses its appeal when the steps become tottering, when the hearing becomes dim, when the faded eyes cannot see as they once did.… — John R. Rice
She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else… — J.R.R. Tolkien
When all hopes of recognition or honor have faded into distant memory, when purity of heart meets sorrow of mind, when all the world seems… — Franz Schubert
Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long… — Abraham Lincoln
I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded. — Erma Bombeck
One more thing. The people and the friends that we have lost... or the dreams that have faded... never forget them. — Unknown Author
To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has been… — Sara Sheridan
Why don't you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will be delightful-a melange… — Diana Vreeland
I have found that in fiction one is freer to speak the truth, if only because in fiction the truth is not expected or required.… — Philip Sington

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225 authors contributed a total of 284 Faded Quotes, led by these top contributors: