Fading Quotes

228 quotes by 192 authors

But anything worth doing is worth doing badly. Like being there by that summer ocean on the other side of the island while love was… — Jack Gilbert
Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall. — Daniel Woodrell
The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises from… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I thought that we were getting somewhere, but we're still nowhere at all. I watch your tail lights fading, I try but a tear won't… — Miley Cyrus
Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Blooming under a cold moon, we are like fireworks... Rising, shining, and finally scattering and fading. So until that moment comes when we vanish like… — Tite Kubo
He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard,… — Fannie Flagg
The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful. — Gary Shteyngart
there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home. — Jon McGregor
What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain. — Martha Gellhorn
Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow. — Yoko Ono
It didn't make me glow. I felt more like I was fading away, like the world had forgotten me. — Lucy Christopher
Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when… — Blaise Pascal
When I'm wasted, I can almost forget who I am," he said, his smile fading slightly. "I know I'm still there, but only barely. It's… — Becca Fitzpatrick
A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our… — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him… — Kate Chopin
Will only looked at her. There had been light in his eyes on the stairs, as he'd locked the door, when he'd kissed her--a brilliant,… — Cassandra Clare
The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we… — Kate Mosse
Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky. — William Gibson
I HIDE myself within my flower That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me tooâ€” And angels know the rest. I hide myself within… — Emily Dickinson

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