Faded Quotes

• I'm in the mood to get faded, so please bring your finest.

  Drake

  Drinking, Humble, Rapper

  Song: Every Girl

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• Memories have no life. They're just pale reminders of a time that's gone-like faded photographs.

  Kevin Brooks

  Memories, Gone, Photograph

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• I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

  Iris Murdoch

  Half, Figures, Backgrounds

  Iris Murdoch (1976). “A Severed Head”, p.38, Penguin

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• Faded way too long, I'm floatin in and out of consciousness

  Drake

  Drinking, Long, Way

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• We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Good Night, Dream

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 4, sc. 1, l. 148

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• All that I've learned has faded away.

  Ronnie Radke

  I've Learned

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• There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.

  Franz Kafka

  Sat

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• Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart!

  Alfred Austin

  Grief, Fall, Heart

  Alfred Austin (1896). “Days of the Year: A Poetic Calendar from the Works of A. Austin”

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• The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past.

  Alfred Bunn

  Past, Light, Glory

  Alfred Bunn (1846). “The grand serious opera, entitled The maid of Artois. Words”, p.27

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• Memories were fine but you couldn't touch them, smell them or hold them. They were never exactly as the moment was, and they faded with time.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Memories, Smell, Romance

  Cecelia Ahern (2004). “PS, I Love You: A Novel”, p.246, Hachette UK

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• The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Inspirational, Pain

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.359, Penguin

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• T'is the last rose of summer,
  Left blooming alone.

  Thomas Moore

  Summer, Flower, Rose

  'Irish Melodies' (1807) "Tis the last rose of summer'

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• I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.

  Edward George, Baron George

  Flower, Light, Solitude

  "The last days of Pompeii". Book by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1834.

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• We're just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Philosophy, Blue, Jeans

  Song: Don't Chu-Know, Album: Barometer Soup, 1995

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• My smile faded, and I suddenly felt confused. My heart leapt in my chest. "Why would you do that for me?" "What wouldn't I do for you?

  Richelle Mead

  Confused, Heart, My Smile

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.1437, Zebra Books

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• When the light has sharply faded And you have lost your way Let another's love guide you It can turn blackest night into day.

  Kevin Myers

  Love, Night, Light

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• Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Kindness, Long, Storm

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• Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Memories, Flower

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.27

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• Time seemed to suspend itself, or cease altogether. Place faded away. There was only her self, the centre that endured through all times, all events, from the world, from its pain. Timeless, eternal.

  Lois Tilton

  Time, Pain, Self

  LOIS TILTON (2012). “Betrayal”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• What had happened to our love? Somehow it had faded, or worn out, or simply withered away.

  Carolyn Meyer

  Our Love, Worn, Happened

  Carolyn Meyer (2002). “Doomed Queen Anne: A Young Royals Book”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

  Virginia Woolf

  Flower, Practice, Rose

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.411, Wordsworth Editions

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• That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.

  Anita Brookner

  Light, Sun, Grey

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• In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Memories, Long, Brain

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• Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Sunset, Appreciate, Departed

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• Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

  Gertrude Stein

  Flower, Literature, Plastic Flowers

  Title of story (written 1930)

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