Fainter Quotes

17 quotes by 16 authors

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task. — Friedrich Nietzsche
False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken… — Samuel Johnson
The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound - and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard subside and allow him to… — H P Lovecraft
No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew… — Norton Juster
The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer… — Wendy Lesser
The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true of chocolate and… — Anthony Doerr
The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories are… — Thomas B. Macaulay
When the moon is ninety degrees away from the sun it sees but half the earth illuminated (the western half). For the other (the eastern… — Galileo Galilei
The garden rose may richly bloom In cultured soil and genial air, To cloud the light of Fashion's room Or droop in Beauty's midnight hair,… — John Greenleaf Whittier
For our part, when we feel, we evaporate; ah, we breathe ourselves out and away; with each new heartfire we give off a fainter scent.… — Rainer Maria Rilke
But Groverâ€™s voice was already growing fainter. â€˜Sweet dreams. Donâ€™t let me die! — Rick Riordan
He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees. Prepares your brittle substance… — Emily Dickinson
In Egypt, I loved the perfume of the lotus. A flower would bloom in the pool at dawn, filling the entire garden with a blue… — Anita Diament
The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which… — Marcel Proust
All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to… — Nikola Tesla
We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the… — Edwin Powell Hubble
The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by… — Marcel Proust

Who Wrote These Fainter Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 17 Fainter Quotes as follows: