Fade Away Quotes

• As time passes, my story fades away.

  Dave Dravecky

  Stories, Time Passes, Fades

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• It's better to burn out, than to fade away.

  Neil Young

  Death, Running, Believe

  "My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" (song) (1978). The last sentence was quoted by singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain in his suicide note, 8 Apr. 1994. See Richard Cumberland 1

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• Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Veterans Day, Peace, Military

  Address to joint meeting of Congress, 19 Apr. 1951

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• But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the stories, we'd just fade away.

  Charles de Lint

  People, Stories, Remember

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• A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.

  Kurt Cobain

  Self, Miserable, Highlander

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• Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Goodbye, Military, Light

  1951 Address to Congress after being relieved of his duty by President Truman, 19 Apr.

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• Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks. Some doors are opened, some roads are blocked. Sundowns are golden, then fade away. And if I never do nothing, I'll get you back someday.

  Tom Petty

  Rocks, Doors, Golden

  Song: Walls

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• There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life.

  Pete Maravich

  Basketball, Dedication, Light

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• The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Flower, Illusion, Fades

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David E. Wellbery (1988). “The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella”, p.38, Princeton University Press

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• The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Stars, Life And Love, Twilight

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America

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• Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Happy Birthday, Twilight, Opportunity

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America

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• Do nothing and hope the enemy fades away.

  Fabius Maximus

  Enemy, Fades

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• In that undifferentiated reality of the Self there is eternal bliss. All the phantoms of existence fade away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Reality, Self

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• It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out.

  John Lennon

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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• I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my memory of the sound.

  Ken Kesey

  Memories, Sound, Fades

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.84, Hamilton Books

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• I have no fear; I have nothing to lose. I'd rather burn out than fade away, and I would rather go out in a blaze of glory on my own terms than let anybody dictate anything to me in my career. I had the chance to wrestle The Undertaker [on Smackdown in 2013], and one thing I took away from it was that he looked me in the eye and said, 'Trust your instincts because you've got great instincts.'

  Dean Ambrose

  Eye, Careers, Chance

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• You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.

  Al Pacino

  Retirement, Thinking, Insecurity

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• loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.

  Milan Kundera

  Ideas, Empires, Unbearable

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• The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

  Plato

  Body, Pleasure, Charm

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.210, Xist Publishing

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• Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly lies to the bone. Beauty dies and fades away, but ugly holds its own! Create and cultivate Inner Beauty that never fades away but grows and matures with Time!

  Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate

  Lying, Inner Beauty, Skins

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• What do I do now?” “I don’t know. Fade away, perhaps. Or find another role.

  Neil Gaiman

  Roles, Fades, Knows

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• Determination is like a muscle. If you do not use it regularly, it fades away.

  Lynn Jennings

  Determination, Use, Muscles

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• I have something to say: it's better to burn out, than to fade away.

  Clancy Brown

  Lovely, Highlander, Famous Last Words

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• I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away.

  Kurt Cobain

  Passion, Remember, Suicide Note

  "Frances Bean Cobain pays tribute to dad Kurt on his birthday" by Andrea Park, www.cbsnews.com. February 20, 2017.

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• If you have an effect that nobody can replicate, then your phenomenon fades away. So if you want to to have a legacy, then you jolly well better have an effect that replicates.

  Susan Fiske

  Legacy, Want, Wells

  "We talked to the scientist at the center of a brutal firestorm in the field of psychology". Interview with Rafi Letzter, www.businessinsider.com. September 26, 2016.

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