Wither Quotes
168 quotes by 142 authors
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Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Fare well we call to hearth and hall Though wind may blow and rain may fall We must away ere break of day Over the…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again.…
— Anne Rice
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The point is always reached after which the gods no longer share their lives with mortal men and women, they die or wither away or…
— Salman Rushdie
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Who knew that better than I, who had presided over the death of my own body, seeing all I called human wither and die only…
— Anne Rice
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I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance, and none can say while some fields will blossom and others…
— Kent Nerburn
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On Christ’s glory I would fix all my thoughts and desires, and the more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted…
— John Owen
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Still, I look down, and the grass is so green, I cannot understand how it does not wither and die with sorrow. ~Song of the…
— Lisa Ann Sandell
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Still, I look down, and the grass is so green, I cannot understand how it does not wither and die with sorrow. But against the…
— Lisa Ann Sandell
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I'm a perfectly good carrot that everyone is trying to turn into a rose. As a carrot, I have good color and a nice leafy…
— Mary Pipher
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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen…
— Charles Dickens
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Lunch." I said. "Immediately. I'm going to wither away to absolutely nothing. Then you'll be racked with guilt." "I doubt it.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Being In Love Means hard questions. Will I? Won't I? Should I? Could I? Yes? No? You? Me? There is no me without you. Is…
— Ellen Hopkins
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X. I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried—“La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!†XI.…
— John Keats
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What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch.…
— Frederick Buechner
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A good leg will fall, a straight back will stoop, a black beard will turn white, a curled pate will grow bald, a fair face…
— William Shakespeare
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If you do not pour water on your plant, what will happen? It will slowly wither and die. Our habits will also slowly wither and…
— Swami Satchidananda
Who Wrote These Wither Quotes
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