Faint Quotes

397 quotes by 329 authors

What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy… — Jeanette Winterson
The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke. — Yasunari Kawabata
The Young Soldier It is not death Without hereafter To one in dearth Of life and its laughter, Nor the sweet murder Dealt slow and… — Wilfred Owen
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: 'My friend,… — Denis Diderot
It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering â€” only expensive â€” blind, faint-hearted, doubting world. — Nikola Tesla
There would have to be bread, some rich, whole-grain bread and zwieback, and perhaps on a long, narrow dish some pale Westphalian ham laced with… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I think we continually need to understand how important an event the war was - how defining, how central to who we are. Everything that… — Ken Burns
In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature mental ability sinks… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
A person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He will feel the… — Eugene Ionesco
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
I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I see him at… — John Owen
True love is not for the faint-hearted. — Jack Kornfield
How hard a thing is life to the lowly and yet how human and real is it? And all this life and love and strife… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them;… — Algernon Blackwood
The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make. — Tad Williams
The simple truth is that being a creative artist takes courage; itâ€™s not a job for the faint of heart. It takes courage each and… — Terri Windling
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some… — David Brainerd
Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems. — Cory Booker
When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too,… — Harry Stack Sullivan
Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom,… — William Hazlitt

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