Fading Quotes - Page 2

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

  Drake

  Drinking, Humble, Rapper

  Song: Every Girl

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• Never mind what haters say, ignore them 'til they fade away.

  T.I.

  Inspirational, Hater, Rap

  Song: Live Your Life

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• Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure.

  Assia Djebar

  Fear, Writing, Feminist

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• Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

  Edward Thorndike

  Wise, Wisdom, Fall

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• The people will come and go. Sometimes they'll be there for you. Sometimes they wont. Some will love you, some will not. This tide was never meant to be still. Step away from time to time. And know that only a heart fixed on the unmoving spot can ride the waves of this ever-changing, ever-fading life.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen;
  Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.

  George Peele

  Flower, Roots, Green

  'Polyhymnia' (1590) ad fin. 'Sonnet'

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• What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

  Sylvia Plath

  Ideas, Feminism, Age

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.328, Anchor

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• Why is it we love so fully what has washed up on the beaches
  of our hearts, those lost messages, lost friends, the daylight stars
  we never get to see? Bad luck never takes a vacation, my friend
  once wrote. It lies there among the broken shells and stones
  we collect, a story he would say begins with you, with me,
  a story that is forever lost among the backwaters of our lives,
  our endless fear of ourselves, and our endless need for hope,
  a story, perhaps an answer, a word suddenly on wing, the simple
  sound of a torn heart, or the unmistakable scent of the morning's fading moon.

  Richard Jackson

  Beach, Morning, Stars

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• My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Stars, Slipping, Reins

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• We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails.

  Oswald Chambers

  Light, Fading Light, Failing

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.244, Discovery House

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• Now it's closing time/the music's fading out.

  Tom Waits

  Closing, Closing Time

  Song: I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love with You, Album: Closing Time

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• Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Regret, Past, Roles

  "Kristin Scott Thomas: 'Food mixers are not on the menu, thanks...'" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2010.

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• Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence on a noxious private planet they can never leave, and where they can receive no visitors.

  Andrew Solomon

  Depression, Loneliness, World

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

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• It would be a wonderful experience to stand there in those enchanted surroundings and hear Shakespeare and Milton and Bunyan read from their noble works. And it might be that they would like to hear me read some of my things. No, it could never be; they would not care for me. They would not know me, they would not understand me, and they would say they had an engagement. But if I could only be there, and walk about and look, and listen, I should be satisfied and not make a noise. My life is fading to its close, and someday I shall know.

  George Woodward Warder

  Heaven, Would Be, Looks

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• O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Life, Religious, Falling In Love

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• In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having never experienced an atomic bombing, the vast majority around the world can only vaguely imagine such horror, and these days, John Hersey's Hiroshima and Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth are all but forgotten. As predicted by the saying, 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,' the probability that nuclear weapons will be used and the danger of nuclear war are increasing.

  Tadatoshi Akiba

  Memories, War, Fate

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• Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Sunset, Fire, Clouds

  'Miracles'

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• The sandy cat by the Farmer's chair
  Mews at his knee for dainty fare;
  Old Rover in his moss-greened house
  Mumbles a bone, and barks at a mouse.
  
  In the dewy fields the cattle lie
  Chewing the cud 'neath a fading sky;
  Dobbin at manger pulls his hay:
  Gone is another summer's day.

  Walter de La Mare

  Summer, Lying, Cat

  Walter De la Mare (1920). “Collected Poems, 1901-1918”

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• Yet as I cast my eye over the whole course of science I behold instances of false science, even more pretentious and popular than that of Einstein gradually fading into ineptitude under the searchlight; and I have no doubt that there will arise a new generation who will look with a wonder and amazement, deeper than now accompany Einstein, at our galaxy of thinkers, men of science, popular critics, authoritative professors and witty dramatists, who have been satisfied to waive their common sense in view of Einstein's absurdities.

  Arthur Lynch

  Witty, Eye, Science

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• To be in love- where scorn is bought with groans,
  Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirth
  With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights;
  If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain;
  If lost, why then a grievous labour won;
  However, but a folly bought with wit,
  Or else a wit by folly vanquished.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Night, Stupidity

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight]. [8 vols. The vol. containing the biogr. is of the 3rd ed.].”, p.19

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• No matter how you look at it, all the emotions connected with love are not really immortal; like all other passions in life, they are bound to fade at some point. The trick is to convert love into some lasting friendship that overcomes the fading passion.

  Harold Pinter

  Life, Friendship, Passion

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• The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

  Aaron Copland

  Personality, Listening, Mind

  Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.43, Harvard University Press

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• A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to be found; and though he may not himself excel in invention, his ingenuity may compose one of those agreeable books, the deliciæ of literature, that will out-last the fading meteors of his day.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Book, Men, Literature

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• Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

  Carl Sandburg

  Horizon, Explanation, Poetry Is

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Jesus becomes the captive of the hysterically religious, the chronically fearful, the insecure and even the neurotic among us, or he becomes little more than a fading memory, the symbol of an age that is no more and a nostalgic reminder of our believing past. To me, neither option is worth pursuing.

  John Shelby Spong

  Religious, Jesus, Memories

  John Shelby Spong (2009). “Jesus for the Non-Religious”, p.9, Harper Collins

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