Fades Quotes - Page 9

• When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite.

  Yann Martel

  Dog, Atheist, Pain

  Yann Martel (2012). “Self”, p.12, Vintage Canada

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• Because Roman civilization perished through barbarian invasions, we are perhaps too much inclined to think that that is the only way a civilization can die. If the lights that guide us ever go out, they will fade little by little, as if of their own accord.... We therefore should not console ourselves by thinking that the barbarians are still a long way off. Some peoples may let the torch be snatched from their hands, but others stamp it out themselves.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Thinking, Light, Hands

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• Given that we desire long life, should we not take eternal life into account? If we long for a kingdom which, however enduring, has an end, and glory and joy which, great as they are, will fade, and wealth that will perish with this present life, and we labour for the sake of such things; ought we not to seek the kingdom, glory, joy and riches which, as well as being all-surpassing, are unfading and endless, and ought we not to endure a little constraint in order to inherit it?

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Order, Long

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• A bone heals, a bruise fades, but art is forever

  Otep Shamaya

  Art, Forever, Bruises

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• We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Death, Stars, Ocean

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• I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes me roughly like a brutal nurse. I see it crouching inflexibly in a corner of the ceiling. It comes down in geometrical diagonal like lightning.It says, I remain, I AM, I shall never cease to be: your memory will grow a deathly glaze: you will forget, you will fade out, but I cannot be undone.Thus every quarter hour it puts the taste of death in my mouth, and shows me, but not gently, how I go whoring after oblivion.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Memories, Nurse, Facts

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• Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

  Jim Bishop

  Grief, Joy, Unexpected

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• In this moment that blooms and fades as it passes, he is enough, and all is well in the world.

  Lauren Groff

  World, Moments, Enough

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• "Beauty fades," my father would tell me, "but dumb? Dumb is forever."

  Judy Sheindlin

  Beauty, Father, Forever

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• Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,- A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Pride, Men

  The Deserted Village l. 51 (1770)

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• All that may be wished for, will by nature fade to nothing.

  Shantideva

  Inspirational, Life, May

  Shantideva, Padmakara Translation Group (2008). “The Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.186, Shambhala Publications

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• Roses bloom, and then they wither;
  Cheeks are bright, then fade and die;
  Shapes of light are wafted hither,
  Then, like visions, hurry by.

  James Gates Percival

  Light, Rose, Vision

  James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1866). “The Poetical Works of James Gates Percival: With a Biographical Sketch”, p.363

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• Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Summer, Fall, Sadness

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• If someone harmed or tortured or killed one of my children I'd feel everything almost anyone else would feel. I'd probably have intense feelings of revenge. But these feelings would fade. In the end they're small and self-concerned. Only the grief would last.

  Galen Strawson

  Children, Revenge, Grief

  Interview with Tamler Sommers, believermag.com. March 2003.

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• Children who have been in work for a long time suddenly get a thud down to earth once the cuteness fades, hips widen, voices drop and jawlines strengthen.

  Jessie Cave

  Children, Voice, Long

  "My jailed Harry Potter co-star is the victim of a make-believe world" by Jessie Cave, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2012.

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• I don't know, man, I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.

  Mike Tyson

  Men, Dumb Celebrity, Knows

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• I guess I'm going to fade into Bolivian.

  Mike Tyson

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• ... For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Dream, Night, Years

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• Evil can be helped to fade away more quickly if we remain in obedience to the Law of Love - evil must be overcome with good.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Law, Evil, Overcoming

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• A poet's interest in craft never fades, of course.

  Mary Oliver

  Crafts, Poet, Interest

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Modern problems proliferate and remain unsolved because we spend so much time trying to deal with societal and world problems without first dealing with family and community problems. If we organized for normal families and communities - if these two groups provided the functions they are designed for - world problems would diminish and fade out in two or three generations.

  Ralph Borsodi

  Two, Community, Trying

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• Like a force of nature love can fade with the stars at dawn...

  Neil Peart

  Stars, Dawn, Force

  "The Speed Of Love". Song by Neil Peart, Geddy Lee Weinrib and Alex Lifeson, 1993.

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• Everybody can perform, there are so many outlets. Musicians are no longer limited. In the past, the record companies made most of the money. I for one am not sorry to see them fade away.

  Jake Holmes

  Sorry, Past, Musician

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• We all go through stages. Concerns about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and noticed and trying to establish yourself, all fade as your responsibilities and character grow.

  Stephen Covey

  Character, Responsibility, Ambition

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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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