Fading Quotes

• The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Objectivity, Deceit

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

  Isaac Barrow

  Smile, Serenity, Youth

  Isaac Barrow (1859). “The theological works of Isaac Barrow, ed. by A. Napier”, p.345

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• Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.

  Blaise Pascal

  Endurance, Limits, Ends

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• Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.

  Anna Seward

  Tides, Cold, Oblivion

  Anna Seward (1810). “Works”, p.82

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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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• I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Taking A Break, Clubs, Saws

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• The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted.

  Jan Peter Balkenende

  Crush, Loyalty, Memories

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• In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Ideas, Community, India

  V.S. Naipaul (2010). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.239, Vintage

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• The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.

  Bobby Vinton

  Business, Fading Away, Different

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• I like people-watching and fading into crowds.

  Kristen Johnston

  People, Crowds

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• My star was kind of fading towards the end of the '60s and suddenly I got this call from Fellini, who just appeared to kind of love me!

  Terence Stamp

  Stars, Kind, Ends

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• But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone.

  John Ratzenberger

  America, Gone, Today

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• O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

  John Milton

  Flower

  'On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough' (1673) st. 1

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• Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Beautiful, Fall

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• I'd be a butterfly; living a rover, Dying when fair things are fading away.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Butterfly, Dying, Fading Away

  Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems”, p.55

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• Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but the loyalty never fades.

  Sylvester Stallone

  I Love You, Loyalty, Inspirational Love

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• I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too.

  John Keats

  Rose, Dew, Fever

  'La belle dame sans merci' (1820) st. 3

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• There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Frustration, Desire, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• While I was in London it was completely upside-down. I got a whole new life and it was a challenge to keep in touch with my life in Ireland, but it was great fun. Now though, I've been back home since November and gradually all connections with my HP life have been fading.

  Evanna Lynch

  Fun, Home, Challenges

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• Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.

  Paulette Alden

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandpa

  Paulette Bates Alden (1988). “Feeding the Eagles: Short Stories”

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• There was a brief moment of weightlesssness: a balancing point between air and earth, dirt and heaven. How strange, I thought, how like the moment between sleeping and falling when everything is beautifully surreal and nothing is corporeal. How like floating towards completion. But as often happens in that time between existing in the world and fading into dreams, this moment over the edge ended with the ruthless jerk back to awareness.

  Andrew Davidson

  Dream, Fall, Sleep

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• Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all.

  Propertius

  Death, Fortune, Sooner Or Later

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• Oh, the self-importance of fading stars. Never mind, they will be black holes one day.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Stars, Self, Black

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• The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Beautiful, Light, Moments

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story”, p.174, Granta Books

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• If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. In other words, begin to act the part, as well as you can, of the person you would rather be, the person you most want to become. Gradually, the old, fearful person will fade away.

  William Glasser

  Change, Attitude, Fear

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