Fade Away Quotes - Page 3

• On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Yoga, Self

  4 Copy quote

• Like a raisin in the sun; that will swivel up and fade away. Your success dreams will swivel up and fade away, if you are not motivated enough to work for them.

  Jon Jones

  Motivational, Dream, Sun

  4 Copy quote

• When I look over my past, I see that the stages in my life are like the phases of the moon. I've had periods where I was the waxing gibbous: fat with wealth and success. There have been other seasons when my happiness was like the waning crescent and I watched my joy fade away slowly, merging with the atmosphere around me as if it never existed. Then I felt as if I was left with nothing more than an illusion, but happiness returns in time and glows once more in corpulent fullness. It's time that makes the difference.

  Amy Neftzger

  Past, Moon, Differences

  15 Copy quote

• The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Soldier, West, World

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

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot of burgeoning goes on.

  Fay Weldon

  Husband, Emotional, New Life

  "'Only One Way Out of Here'". www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2006.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The concept of time, as it’s commonly understood by normal people with normal jobs and normal goddamn lives, doesn’t exist on the road. The nights spread out like the dark, godforsaken highways that distinguish them, and the days run together like Thanksgiving dinner smothered in gravy. You never really know where you are or what time it is, and the outside world starts to fade away. It’s cool.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Running, Jobs, Dark

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.198, Sourcebooks, Inc.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing!

  Ada Leverson

  Passion, Worship, Ideals

  Ada Leverson (1962). “The little Ottleys: Love's shadow. Tenterhooks. Love at second sight”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Being different is ... interesting; there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.

  Edward Albee

  Reality, Differences, Interesting

  Edward Albee (2007). “Seascape: The Entire Appalling Business”, p.69, The Overlook Press

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought.

  Albert Pike

  Writing, Echoes, Leaving

  16 Copy quote

• Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.

  Christina Rossetti

  Lilies, Fields, Mortality

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.266, Delphi Classics

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• ...great feeling of enthusiasm..this human component began to fade away, leaving only that supernatural enthusisam which must always be at the root of our perseverance.

  Salvador Bernal

  Perseverance, Work, Roots

  4 Copy quote

• When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of the trees and the buildings being illuminated by the brightness of the atmosphere which surrounds the objects in such a way that the shadows are few, and these few fade away so that their outline is lost in haze.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Differences

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.165, GENERAL PRESS

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew it.

  Augustus William Hare

  Character, Blood, History

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• After school the very next day, El Rey's mobile home was gone. I laid in bed and wondered what happens to people when they go, if they become like shadows, if they fade away when they disappear from your life. The only thing I could see was the broken picket fence. The only sound I could hear was the cry of birds being killed in the night.

  Joe Meno

  School, Home, Night

  4 Copy quote

• It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. I don't appreciate worship of dead Sid Vicious or of dead James Dean or of dead John Wayne. It's the same thing. Making Sid Vicious a hero, Jim Morrison - it's garbage to me. I worship the people who survive. Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo.

  John Lennon

  Hero, People, Appreciate

  Playboy interview, January 1981.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I realized that the artists who managed to fight through this recession have a better shot at longevity than most. The recession was a test of your resolve and passion. I think as we come out of these rough times we will be more adept at survival and will have gained the skills necessary to make a long fruitful artistic career. There will still be those that fade away but we are more likely to grow and bend with the times and prosper.

  Mark Edward

  Passion, Fighting, Artist

  "Lessons From Old Art Magazines". markedwardadams.com. May 3, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can get lazy. I don't think I'm a very driven person. When I have work, I work very hard. But when I don't work, I really don't do anything. I could easily just fade away.

  Steve Carell

  Thinking, Lazy, Driven

  "Q&A: Fey, Carell hit the town in `Date Night'". Interview with Jake Coyle, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. March 29, 2010.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this life-blood with its burning Passion? They are dust and shadow; a Shadow-system gathered round our Me; wherein, through some moments or years, the Divine Essence is to be revealed in the Flesh.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Passion, Years, Essence

  4 Copy quote

• It’s getting too late in my life to care about the small things. It’s getting too late to not be brave, to not live my life fully, to not try to be an artist. Trivial things like how nice your hotel room is, or if you have to be naked for a while, they fade away.

  Helen Hunt

  Nice, Artist, Brave

  "Helen Hunt Talks Baring All in ‘The Sessions’: 'It’s getting too late in my life to care about the small things'". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. September 10, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love breaks your heart, love takes no less than everything. Love makes it hard, and it fades away so easily.

  Vanessa L. Williams

  Romantic, Heart, Break

  Song: Love Is

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Romance lasts forever, love don't fade away. They may take away our future, but they can't stop yesterday.

  John Denver

  Romantic, Yesterday, Romance

  42 Copy quote

• In meditation all the fake dull thoughts that you think, all the ridiculous philosophies, the necessities, all the things that won't matter a bit when you are dead - fade away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Thinking

  5 Copy quote

• I see a lot of writers who complain when their book doesn't sell and the reason that happens sometimes, is they don't know how to publicize or promote themselves. A writer is more successful when they're involved in their literary community somehow. It's very easy for an author's book to fade away if they don't get out in public and meet people.

  Kevin Sampsell

  Book, Successful, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I stand firm behind the belief that, for me, songwriting isn't something that I do or command, it happens to me. I can either choose to stop and acknowledge it, or put it off and hope that it won't fade away. 'That Wasn't Me' is no exception - it came together more quickly than any other song I have ever constructed on my own.

  Brandi Carlile

  Song, Together, Belief

  "Interrogating Brandi Carlile: I Knew "That Wasn’t Me" Was Our "Let It Be". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Law, Duty, Enjoyment

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.3006, 谷月社

  7 Copy quote

  Show source