Fading Quotes

228 quotes by 207 authors

There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away… — Emmanuelle Beart
The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that… — Maria Edgeworth
To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; coy looks, with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth — William Shakespeare
When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms of lofty elms,… — Djuna Barnes
I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The… — Douglas MacArthur
Yet as I cast my eye over the whole course of science I behold instances of false science, even more pretentious and popular than that… — Arthur Lynch
Encouragement is awesome. Think about it. It has the capacity to lift a man's or a woman's shoulders. To breathe fresh air into the fading… — Charles R. Swindoll
Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having never experienced an… — Tadatoshi Akiba
O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
I'd be a butterfly; living a rover, Dying when fair things are fading away. — Thomas Haynes Bayly
Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled… — Wystan Hugh Auden
It would be a wonderful experience to stand there in those enchanted surroundings and hear Shakespeare and Milton and Bunyan read from their noble works.… — George Woodward Warder
Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence… — Andrew Solomon
But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone. — John Ratzenberger
Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty. — Kristin Scott Thomas
Now it's closing time/the music's fading out. — Tom Waits
The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the… — Aaron Copland
A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly… — Kate Simon

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