Quotes by category:Fading

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

fading loneliness depression

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

Anna Seward

fading tides cold

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

fading endurance limits

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

Carl Sandburg

fading explanation horizon

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

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

fading american-dream dream

Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right or wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Now life interested him more.

D. H. Lawrence

fading belief should-have

Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.

Daniel Woodrell

fading shadow light

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

fading sagging shrinking

There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.

Don DeLillo

fading talking past

Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.

Edwin Way Teale

fading life long

I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

fading dies want

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

Friedrich Schiller

fading flower spring

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

Gary Shteyngart

fading light beautiful

Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen;

George Peele

fading flower roots

Now, I wish to encourage those who are in the midst of hard trials, who feel their faith may be fading under the onslaught of troubles. There seems to me no better answer to the question of why trials come and what we are to do than the words of the Lord Himself, who passed through trials for us more terrible than we can imagine.

Henry B. Eyring

fading trials wish

My concern is less the monarchy as such than the attempt of a fading colonial power to hang onto grandeur.

Hilary Mantel

fading monarchy concern

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

Isaac Barrow

fading serenity smile

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

fading men book

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

fading sunset good-luck

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

fading visionaries mean