Withered Quotes

100 quotes by 86 authors

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. — Mortimer Adler
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family. — Chanakya
Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of… — Edward McKendree Bounds
The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying gestures. And in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the… — Jane Austen
This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was… — Jonathan Swift
Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main. — Emily Bronte
Poor Fred - he's actually working on a typo, and somebody ought to tell him. Twice in the New Testament Jesus withered fig trees, Isaiah… — Thom Hartmann
I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet ... the evenings in late autumn time, when… — Jerome K. Jerome
Man, when living, is soft and tender; when dead, he is hard and tough. All animals and plants when living are tender and delicate; when… — Laozi
A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At death, they… — Laozi
I get worried for young girls sometimes; I want them to feel that they can be sassy and full and weird and geeky and smart… — Amy Poehler
From a withered tree, a flower blooms — Gautama Buddha
I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the… — Charles Dickens
There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be… — Vasily Grossman
All our lives we are engaged in preserving our experiences and keeping them fresh by artificially sprinkling the water of memory over them. They have… — Vimala Thakar
May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience the… — Brennan Manning
All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry. — Laozi
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn;… — Oscar Wilde
The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have know a… — Walter Scott

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