Fades Quotes - Page 29

• I have something to say: it's better to burn out, than to fade away.

  Clancy Brown

  Lovely, Highlander, Famous Last Words

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• Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.

  Carl Pomerance

  Fun, Math, Science

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• Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day:
  Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away,
  To sleep! to sleep!
  Sleep, mournful heart, and let the past be past:
  Sleep, happy soul, all life will sleep at last.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Grief, Heart, Sleep

  "The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marion". Play by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1892.

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• Departing summer hath assumed
  An aspect tenderly illumed,
  The gentlest look of spring;
  That calls from yonder leafy shade
  Unfaded, yet prepared to fade,
  A timely carolling.

  William Wordsworth

  Summer, Spring, Looks

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.358

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• Elephants, it turns out, are surprisingly stealthy. As the sunlight fades, other species declare their presence. Throngs of zebras and wildebeests thunder by in the distance, trailing dust clouds. Cape buffalo snort and raise their horns and position themselves in front of their young. Giraffes stare over treetops, their huge brown eyes blinking, then lope away in seeming slow motion. But no elephants.

  Thomas French

  Zebras, Distance, Eye

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• It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.

  Hugh Mackay

  Magic, Lovely, Inevitable

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• I'm not going to just fade out, I know.

  Kato Kaelin

  Lovely, Knows

  "Only in America". Interview with Andrew Solomon, andrewsolomon.com.

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• When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of the trees and the buildings being illuminated by the brightness of the atmosphere which surrounds the objects in such a way that the shadows are few, and these few fade away so that their outline is lost in haze.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Differences

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.165, GENERAL PRESS

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• History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?

  Washington Irving

  Fall, Character, Dust

  Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.144, Penguin

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• Now I just have these reddish scars there. I guess I always will, although Goody says they’ll fade over time. I don’t know if I want them to fade. That probably sounds totally freaky, but part of me doesn’t want to forget what it felt like, even though it hurt. If I forget about the pain, I might also forget that it was a really stupid idea to do it in the first place.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Hurt, Pain, Stupid

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• The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew it.

  Augustus William Hare

  Character, Blood, History

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• After school the very next day, El Rey's mobile home was gone. I laid in bed and wondered what happens to people when they go, if they become like shadows, if they fade away when they disappear from your life. The only thing I could see was the broken picket fence. The only sound I could hear was the cry of birds being killed in the night.

  Joe Meno

  School, Home, Night

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• It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important, the objects that you hold dear. The others fade from your life entirely. You wanted them, but they did not want you in return.

  Sheila Heti

  Long, Important, Want

  Sheila Heti (2012). “How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life”, p.56, Macmillan

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• And I was shocked, To see the mistakes of each generation, Will just fade like a radio station, If you drive out of range...

  Ani DiFranco

  Mistake, Generations, Radio

  "Song: Out of Range". July 26, 1994.

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• I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station.

  Ronald Harwood

  Piano, Lovely, Radio

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• The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.

  Brian Sibley

  Memories, Lovely, Seems

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• I am conscious about myself and everything, and then suddenly, or slowly, my conscious fades out. Switches off. And it's not existing, and that's a marvelous feeling. That from existing, I am not existing. And at that moment, nothing can happen to me.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Feelings, Moments, Conscious

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• A measure of victory has been won, and honors have been bestowed in token thereof. But honours fade or are forgotten, and monuments crumble into dust. It is the battle itself that matters - and the battle must go on.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Dust, Community, Honor

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• Act on what you love, not from what you fear, and watch how fear fades as love grows.

  Guy Finley

  Watches, Love Grows, What You Love

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Mar 27, 2012

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• You will remember this when all else fades, this moment, here, together, by this well. There will be certain days, and certain nights, you’ll feel my presence near you, hear my voice. You’ll think you have imagined it and yet, inside you, you will catch an answering cry. On April evenings, when the rain has ceased, your heart will shake, you’ll weep for nothing, pine for what’s not there. For you, this life will never be enough, there will forever be an emptiness, where once the god was all in all in you.

  John Banville

  Rain, Heart, Night

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• Wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the world always changes. Wishes get slimy, and their colors fade, and soon they are just mud, like all the rest of the mud, and not wishes at all, but regrets. The trouble is, not everyone can tell when they ought to launder their wishes. Even when one finds oneself in Fairyland and not at home at all, it is not always so easy to remember to catch the world in it's changing and change with it.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Regret, Home, Color

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.75, Feiwel & Friends

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• Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, "You're not going where I need to go, and there's no way I'm going to persuade all of you to follow me. So rather than standing here watching the opportunities fade away, I'm heading off. I'm betting some of you, the best of you, will follow me.

  Seth Godin

  Opportunity, Thinking, Needs

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.110, Penguin

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• I'd rather die than fade away

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Dies, Fade Away

  Song: Fear

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• You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade. Best to close the door; the TV is always on in the next room. Tell the others right away, "No, I don't want to watch TV!" Raise your voice -- they won't hear you otherwise -- "I'm reading! I don't want to be disturbed!" Maybe they haven't heard you, with all that racket; speak louder, yell: "I'm beginning to read Italo Calvino's new novel!" Or if you prefer, don't say anything: just hope they'll leave you alone.

  Italo Calvino

  Reading, Winter, Night

  Italo Calvino (2010). “If On A Winter's Night A Traveller”, p.3, Random House

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• If you fall in love based on zero hours spent with me? That's maybe something to be aware of. That will fade fast. You can't be in love with a google search.

  Taylor Swift

  Falling In Love, Zero, Google

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