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 Grover’s voice was already growing fainter. ‘Sweet dreams. Don’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: