Faint Quotes
397 quotes by 318 authors
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There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not…
— Willa Cather
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Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion...
— Albert Einstein
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There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the…
— Alan Lightman
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Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint…
— Alain de Botton
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The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the…
— Samuel Beckett
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A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.
— Hannah More
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Somewhere within all of us is a wordless center, a part of us that hopes to be immortal in some way, a part that has…
— Richard Schmid
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In London it had seemed impossible to travel without the proper evening clothes. One could see an invitation arriving for an Embassy ball or something.…
— Robert Edison Fulton, Jr.
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Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to those men whose inner life is faint.
— William E. Woodward
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It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale, delicate shadow rises…
— Robert Musil
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I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light…
— Johann Heinrich Lambert
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It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to an ancient fable,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its…
— James Russell Lowell
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There is no death-the thing that we call death Is but another, sadder name for life, Which is itself an insufficient name, Faint recognition of…
— Richard Henry Stoddard
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[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright…
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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Faint is the bliss, that never past thro' pain.
— Colley Cibber
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Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head.
— Marilyn vos Savant
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A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.
— Sean O'Casey
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I know of a world that is sunk in shame, Where hearts oft faint and tire; But I know of a Name, a precious Name,…
— J. Chapman
Who Wrote These Faint Quotes
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