Faded Quotes

• We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Good Night, Dream

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 4, sc. 1, l. 148

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• Faded way too long, I'm floatin in and out of consciousness

  Drake

  Drinking, Long, Way

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• Memories have no life. They're just pale reminders of a time that's gone-like faded photographs.

  Kevin Brooks

  Memories, Gone, Photograph

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• I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

  Iris Murdoch

  Half, Figures, Backgrounds

  Iris Murdoch (1976). “A Severed Head”, p.38, Penguin

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• Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Memories, Flower

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.27

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• All that I've learned has faded away.

  Ronnie Radke

  I've Learned

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• The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past.

  Alfred Bunn

  Past, Light, Glory

  Alfred Bunn (1846). “The grand serious opera, entitled The maid of Artois. Words”, p.27

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• T'is the last rose of summer,
  Left blooming alone.

  Thomas Moore

  Summer, Flower, Rose

  'Irish Melodies' (1807) "Tis the last rose of summer'

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• Memories were fine but you couldn't touch them, smell them or hold them. They were never exactly as the moment was, and they faded with time.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Memories, Smell, Romance

  Cecelia Ahern (2004). “PS, I Love You: A Novel”, p.246, Hachette UK

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• We're just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Philosophy, Blue, Jeans

  Song: Don't Chu-Know, Album: Barometer Soup, 1995

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• I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.

  Edward George, Baron George

  Flower, Light, Solitude

  "The last days of Pompeii". Book by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1834.

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• Time seemed to suspend itself, or cease altogether. Place faded away. There was only her self, the centre that endured through all times, all events, from the world, from its pain. Timeless, eternal.

  Lois Tilton

  Time, Pain, Self

  LOIS TILTON (2012). “Betrayal”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• My smile faded, and I suddenly felt confused. My heart leapt in my chest. "Why would you do that for me?" "What wouldn't I do for you?

  Richelle Mead

  Confused, Heart, My Smile

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.1437, Zebra Books

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• There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.

  Franz Kafka

  Sat

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• Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart!

  Alfred Austin

  Grief, Fall, Heart

  Alfred Austin (1896). “Days of the Year: A Poetic Calendar from the Works of A. Austin”

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• When the light has sharply faded And you have lost your way Let another's love guide you It can turn blackest night into day.

  Kevin Myers

  Love, Night, Light

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• Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

  Gertrude Stein

  Flower, Literature, Plastic Flowers

  Title of story (written 1930)

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• You find [reverberations from 9/11 ] in them most unexpected places, like graffiti on a wall. Sometimes it's a faded picture; sometimes it's a newspaper tacked to a wall. Sometimes it's weird paraphernalia related to it, home constructed paraphernalia. It resonates through society and continues to resonate today.

  Peter van Agtmael

  Wall, Home, Graffiti

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• There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Memories, Ephemeral, Evening

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.805, e-artnow

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• In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Memories, Long, Brain

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• love is what we are about, my darling," she says. "Not even in death has our love faded, for I live in your veins.

  Susan Abulhawa

  Love Is, Veins, Our Love

  Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.244, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Wild is the music of autumnal winds Amongst the faded woods.

  William Wordsworth

  Autumn, Wind, Woods

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• Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise!Vanishd unseasonably

  John Keats

  War, Flower, Eye

  John Keats, Jack Stillinger (1982). “Complete Poems”, p.374, Harvard University Press

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• What had happened to our love? Somehow it had faded, or worn out, or simply withered away.

  Carolyn Meyer

  Our Love, Worn, Happened

  Carolyn Meyer (2002). “Doomed Queen Anne: A Young Royals Book”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When the rose is gone and the garden faded you will no longer hear the nightingale's song. The Beloved is all; the lover just a veil. The Beloved is living; the lover a dead thing. If love withholds its strengthening care, the lover is left like a bird without care, the lover is left like a bird without wings. How will I be awake and aware if the light of the Beloved is absent? Love wills that this Word be brought forth.

  Rumi

  Song, Garden, Light

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.109, Shambhala Publications

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