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

  Drake

  Drinking, Long, Way

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

  Franz Kafka

  Sat

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

  Gertrude Stein

  Flower, Literature, Plastic Flowers

  Title of story (written 1930)

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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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• 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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• Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Kindness, Long, Storm

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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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• The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away.

  Sophocles

  Flower, Eye, Men

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• Autumn is the Sabbath of the year; the time to think of all the past: nature's calm twilight before the darkness. It does make all men think at times; even the lightest and the worst. The distant days of our springtime, our faded summer, comes over us like a dream. We sit in the evening of our life in tender musings, and all that has been takes shadowy form again, and passes through the thoughts.

  Cunningham Geikie

  Summer, Dream, Twilight

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