Fading Quotes - Page 7

• If you are a star in Hollywood then you are always a star in your eyes, but not always in the eyes of new directors for whom your great performances are always fading into the past.

  Lee Grant

  Stars, Eye, Past

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• Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Memories, Butterfly, Mean

  Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.10, Granta Books

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• I've lived the American Dream, but, sadly, for too many, the American Dream is fading.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Dream, American Dream

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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.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, Twilight, Mind

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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• I think of myself as a fairly decent human being and it gives me great pain to be considered for all the mean S.O.B.s that come along. I've played bird decapitators, puppy stranglers, woman beaters, wife poisoners, child molesters - every goddamn thing you can think of. It was quite scene there for a while. But I think the image is changing...I hope to God the old image is fading from people's minds.

  George C. Scott

  Children, Pain, Mean

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• Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled-to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world. I want to believe I am looking into the white fire of a great mystery. I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing-that the light is everything-that it is more than the sum of each flawed blossom rising and fading. And I do.

  Mary Oliver

  Believe, White, Fire

  Mary Oliver (2013). “New and Selected Poems, Volume One”, p.102, Beacon Press

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• [Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Powerful, Passion

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• The world is sagging, snagging, scaling, spalling, pilling, pinging, pitting, warping, checking, fading, chipping, cracking, yellowing, leaking, stalling, shrinking, and in dynamic unbalance.

  Donald Barthelme

  Sagging, Shrinking, World

  1974 Guilty Pleasures,'Down the Line with the Annual'.

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• Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Spring, Flower, Seeds

  Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.382

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• Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.

  T. S. Eliot

  Climbing, Despair, Speak

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.91, Faber & Faber

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• Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls.

  Alfred Noyes

  Flower, Towers, Tolls

  Alfred Noyes (2008). “The Flower of Old Japan”, p.60, Wildside Press LLC

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• So in the heart, When, fading slowly down the past, Fond memories depart, And each that leaves it seems the last; Long after all the rest are flown, Returns a solitary tone,— The after-echo of departed years,— And touches all the soul to tears.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Memories, Heart, Past

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• In view of the fading animals the proliferation of sewers and fears the sea clogging, the air nearing extinction we should be kind, we should take warning, we should forgive each other Instead we are opposite, we touch as though attacking, the gifts we bring even in good faith maybe warp in our hands to implements, to manoeuvres

  Margaret Atwood

  Animal, Air, Views

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems: 1965-1975”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophical, Thinking, Doubt

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?

  Daniele Vare

  Horse, Flower, Sunset

  Daniele Varè (1954). “Novels of Yen-Ching”

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• The individual who fears the criticism of others is no different from the one who seeks their praise. Both are shadow figures, fading into the landscape, lacking the will to act for themselves.

  Richard Bode

  Criticism, Shadow, Different

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• On the Continent and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic.

  Mark Steyn

  Population, West, Aging

  Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.33, Regnery Publishing

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• What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Pain, Fall, Tree

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• Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow.

  Yoko Ono

  Mother, Moon, Giving

  FaceBook post by Yoko Ono from May 03, 2011

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• Geoffrey Hill may be the strongest and most original English poet of the second half of our fading century, although his work is by no means either easy or very popular. Dense, intricate, exceedingly compact, his poetry has always had great visionary force.

  John Hollander

  Mean, Visionaries, Half

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• Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their perfumes. They come with all their scents, they speak of the fields they have left, the rain which has nourished them, the daybreaks they have seen.

  Paul Cezanne

  Rain, Portraits, Scent

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• What if we're all like that? Like ghosts ... in someone's mind ... gradually fading ... fading ... until finally ... one day ... we just disappear ... drift into nothingness. Wouldn't that be sad?

  Walter Wykes

  Memories, What If, Mind

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• Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves;
  And mid-May's eldest child,
  The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine,
  The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.

  John Keats

  Summer, Children, Wine

  'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 5

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• For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second time is to be reminded that we had forgotten well-nigh everything that the writer told us. Parting from the narrator and his narrative, we retain only a fading impression; and he, as it were, takes the book away from us and tucks it under his arm.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Book, Narrators, Arms

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• Many ALS patients end up fading away quietly and dying. For me, this was not OK. I did not want to fade away quietly.

  Steve Gleason

  Dying, Fading Away, Want

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