Faint Quotes
397 quotes by 318 authors
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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when…
— Oswald Chambers
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Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage…
— Margaret Atwood
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The War is not over (and the one that is, or the part of it, has been largely lost). But it is of course wrong…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-hearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more…
— Carl Rogers
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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.
— Samuel Rutherford
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Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.
— Fernando Pessoa
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True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak; it is born of strength and understanding.
— Meher Baba
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Life is but one continual course of instruction. The hand of the parent writes on the heart of the child the first faint characters which…
— Unknown Author
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My room was in one of those turrets and at night I could hear the sea and the faint rustle of eelgrass in the soft…
— Unknown Author
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There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands.
— Charles Dickens
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Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the…
— Joseph Conrad
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When you give up vengeance, make sure you are not giving up on justice. The line between the two is faint, unsteady, and fine...Vengeance is…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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First thing I did when I found out I made it into the top 13 is I tried not to faint and you know, I…
— Haley Reinhart
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I'm a huge Wes Anderson fan I would faint if I met him, let alone got to work with him.
— Emma Roberts
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There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them at the aquarium at the Jardin des…
— Julio Cortazar
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
— Sophocles
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If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.
— Italo Calvino
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All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure…
— Alberto Giacometti
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You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your…
— Fannie Lou Hamer
Who Wrote These Faint Quotes
318 authors contributed a total of 397 Faint Quotes, led by these top contributors: