Fading Quotes - Page 4

• But anything worth doing is worth doing badly. Like being there by that summer ocean on the other side of the island while love was fading out of her, the stars burning so extravagantly those nights that anyone could tell you they would never last.

  Jack Gilbert

  Summer, Stars, Ocean

  Jack Gilbert, “Failing And Flying”

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• I want to see your tailpipe fading off into the sunset." Good luck, I thought. My tailpipe was somewhere on Route 1, along with my muffler.

  Janet Evanovich

  Sunset, Good Luck, Want

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• But also... well, you and I will both be Lissa's gaurdians someday. I need to protect her at all cost. If a pack of Strogoi come, I need to throw my body between them and her." "I know that. Of course that's what you have to do." The black sparkles were dancing in front of my eyes again. I was fading out. "No. If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.

  Richelle Mead

  Love You, Eye, Dancing

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy Complete Series”, p.249, Penguin UK

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• All around me darkness gathers, Fading is the sun that shone, We must speak of other matters, You can be me when I'm gone Flowers gathered in the morning, Afternoon they blossom on, Still are withered in the evening, You can be me when I'm gone.

  Neil Gaiman

  Morning, Flower, Darkness

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• It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

  Alan Moore

  Years, Style, Faces

  Alan Moore (1987). “Watchmen”, Dc Comics

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• I HIDE myself within my flower That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me too - And angels know the rest. I hide myself within my flower, That, fading from your vase, You, unsuspecting, feel for me Almost a loneliness.

  Emily Dickinson

  Loneliness, Flower, Angel

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.664, Harvard University Press

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• I had dreamed of something so different from what reality was now offering up, but that dream had been a blind man's vision. That dream was a miracle. The morning was fading. And I remembered yet again that I was a tourist here.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Dream, Morning, Men

  Bret Easton Ellis (2005). “Lunar Park”, p.174, Vintage

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• Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away.

  Walt Whitman

  Country, Horse, Doors

  Walt Whitman, Howard Nelson (2010). “Earth, My Likeness: Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman”, p.142, North Atlantic Books

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• His mother got her purse. His father reached for the door. "Scooter," he said, by way of good-bye, "have fun with your friends." But Hale was shaking his head. He put his arm around Kat's shoulders. "She's not my friend, Dad. She's my girlfriend." Hale's parents must have walked away, but Kat wasn't looking. She was too busy staring up at Hale, trying to see into his eyes and know if he was okay. The sadness that had lingered for weeks was fading, and the boy that held her was the boy she knew. A boy who kissed her lightly.

  Ally Carter

  Mother, Girlfriend, Fun

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• Over and over in the play my character says, "I'm thirty-two years old," as if that should explain everything that's wrong in her life. I don't know what it's like to be thirty-two, but I can imagine. I imagine she means she's stuck in an in-between time, she's at an age that isn't a milestone but more of a no-man's-land, an age where she's feeling like her hopes are fading.

  Lauren Graham

  Mean, Character, Men

  Lauren Graham (2013). “Someday, Someday, Maybe: A Novel”, p.110, Ballantine Books

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• I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Want, Dies, I Want To Die

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces different first principles, making debate impossible: and debate is the life of democracy; (3) because the fading of the images of sacred persons leaves a man too prone to be a respecter of earthly persons; (4) because there will be more, not less, respect for human rights if they can be treated as divine rights.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Rights, Divine Right

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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

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Heart, Looks

  William Shakespeare (1839). “The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere: Comedies / ... Shakspere”, p.19

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• Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek soft flesh and hot blood.

  Jim Butcher

  Mean, Sleep, Night

  "Turn Coat". Book by Jim Butcher, 2009.

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• When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms of lofty elms, not shadows of a fading summer; but swinging shapes as of books upon a strap, of round and square boxes held under an arm, of hurrying little people heading towards the nearest school.

  Djuna Barnes

  Summer, Book, School

  Djuna Barnes, Alyce Barry (1989). “New York”, Sun & Moon Pr

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• I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Life, Appreciation, Gratitude

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• National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.

  Carl Sagan

  Religious, Stars, Science

  "Cosmos". p. 318. Book by Carl Sagan, 1980.

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• I closed my eyes. “Are you okay?” “I’m tired. My knee is hurting again and I’m trying to teleport myself upstairs.” “Um, Kate, you can’t do that.” “I know. But I’m trying very hard. Let me know if I start fading?

  Ilona Andrews

  Hurt, Tired, Eye

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• I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole. While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, War, Twilight

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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• Noah Calhoun watched the fading sun sink lower from the wrap around porch of his plantation-style home.He liked to sit here in the evenings, especially after working hard all day.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Home, Style, Sun

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• At last, Lady Evenstar, fairest in this world, and most beloved, my world is fading. Lo! we have gathered, and we have spent, and now the time of payment draws near." 'Arwen knew well what he intended, and long had foreseen it; nonetheless she was overborne by her grief. "Would you then, lord, before your time leave your people that live by your word?" she said.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Grief, Long, People

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• • People deserve a break. The stressed and unorganized person who doesn’t have the same priorities as you may be dealing with an autistic child, abusive spouse, fading parents, or cancer. Don’t judge people until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Give them a break instead.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Sympathy, Children, Cancer

  FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from Oct 30, 2015

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• A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.

  Kate Simon

  Summer, Twilight, Sky

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• Our heroes of the former days deserved and gained their never-fading bays.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Hero, Former

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• The interest in Wisdom is fading. Soon there will not be enough left to support the aphorism, even though it tries to amuse by half-mocking the Wisdom it propounds.

  Mason Cooley

  Wisdom, Support, Trying

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