Fading Quotes - Page 2

• If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. In other words, begin to act the part, as well as you can, of the person you would rather be, the person you most want to become. Gradually, the old, fearful person will fade away.

  William Glasser

  Change, Attitude, Fear

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• I'm in the mood to get faded, so please bring your finest.

  Drake

  Drinking, Humble, Rapper

  Song: Every Girl

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• Never mind what haters say, ignore them 'til they fade away.

  T.I.

  Inspirational, Hater, Rap

  Song: Live Your Life

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• Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

  Edward Thorndike

  Wise, Wisdom, Fall

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• The people will come and go. Sometimes they'll be there for you. Sometimes they wont. Some will love you, some will not. This tide was never meant to be still. Step away from time to time. And know that only a heart fixed on the unmoving spot can ride the waves of this ever-changing, ever-fading life.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen;
  Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.

  George Peele

  Flower, Roots, Green

  'Polyhymnia' (1590) ad fin. 'Sonnet'

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• What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

  Sylvia Plath

  Ideas, Feminism, Age

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.328, Anchor

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• Why is it we love so fully what has washed up on the beaches
  of our hearts, those lost messages, lost friends, the daylight stars
  we never get to see? Bad luck never takes a vacation, my friend
  once wrote. It lies there among the broken shells and stones
  we collect, a story he would say begins with you, with me,
  a story that is forever lost among the backwaters of our lives,
  our endless fear of ourselves, and our endless need for hope,
  a story, perhaps an answer, a word suddenly on wing, the simple
  sound of a torn heart, or the unmistakable scent of the morning's fading moon.

  Richard Jackson

  Beach, Morning, Stars

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• My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Stars, Slipping, Reins

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• We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails.

  Oswald Chambers

  Light, Fading Light, Failing

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.244, Discovery House

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• But also... well, you and I will both be Lissa's gaurdians someday. I need to protect her at all cost. If a pack of Strogoi come, I need to throw my body between them and her." "I know that. Of course that's what you have to do." The black sparkles were dancing in front of my eyes again. I was fading out. "No. If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.

  Richelle Mead

  Love You, Eye, Dancing

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy Complete Series”, p.249, Penguin UK

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• At last, Lady Evenstar, fairest in this world, and most beloved, my world is fading. Lo! we have gathered, and we have spent, and now the time of payment draws near." 'Arwen knew well what he intended, and long had foreseen it; nonetheless she was overborne by her grief. "Would you then, lord, before your time leave your people that live by your word?" she said.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Grief, Long, People

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• Yet as I cast my eye over the whole course of science I behold instances of false science, even more pretentious and popular than that of Einstein gradually fading into ineptitude under the searchlight; and I have no doubt that there will arise a new generation who will look with a wonder and amazement, deeper than now accompany Einstein, at our galaxy of thinkers, men of science, popular critics, authoritative professors and witty dramatists, who have been satisfied to waive their common sense in view of Einstein's absurdities.

  Arthur Lynch

  Witty, Eye, Science

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• I had dreamed of something so different from what reality was now offering up, but that dream had been a blind man's vision. That dream was a miracle. The morning was fading. And I remembered yet again that I was a tourist here.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Dream, Morning, Men

  Bret Easton Ellis (2005). “Lunar Park”, p.174, Vintage

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• I HIDE myself within my flower That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me too - And angels know the rest. I hide myself within my flower, That, fading from your vase, You, unsuspecting, feel for me Almost a loneliness.

  Emily Dickinson

  Loneliness, Flower, Angel

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.664, Harvard University Press

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• The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses.

  Stephen King

  Color, Wild Roses, Light

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• The sandy cat by the Farmer's chair
  Mews at his knee for dainty fare;
  Old Rover in his moss-greened house
  Mumbles a bone, and barks at a mouse.
  
  In the dewy fields the cattle lie
  Chewing the cud 'neath a fading sky;
  Dobbin at manger pulls his hay:
  Gone is another summer's day.

  Walter de La Mare

  Summer, Lying, Cat

  Walter De la Mare (1920). “Collected Poems, 1901-1918”

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• I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow. Oh, for the healing swaying, old and low, Of some song sung to rest the tired dead, A song to fall like water on my head, And over quivering limbs, dream flushed to glow! There is a magic made by melody: A spell of rest, and quiet breath, and cool Heart, that sinks through fading colors deep To the subaqueous stillness of the sea, And floats forever in a moon-green pool, Held in the arms of rhythm and of sleep.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Dream, Song, Fall

  Elizabeth Bishop (2008). “Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters”

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• All around me darkness gathers, Fading is the sun that shone, We must speak of other matters, You can be me when I'm gone Flowers gathered in the morning, Afternoon they blossom on, Still are withered in the evening, You can be me when I'm gone.

  Neil Gaiman

  Morning, Flower, Darkness

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• Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Sunset, Fire, Clouds

  'Miracles'

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• 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

  Sunset, Good Luck, Want

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• But anything worth doing is worth doing badly. Like being there by that summer ocean on the other side of the island while love was fading out of her, the stars burning so extravagantly those nights that anyone could tell you they would never last.

  Jack Gilbert

  Summer, Stars, Ocean

  Jack Gilbert, “Failing And Flying”

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

  Daniel Woodrell

  Light, Shadow, Nightfall

  Daniel Woodrell (2012). “Winter's Bone”, p.132, Hachette UK

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• The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises from within...could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the result; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline; and the most glorious poetry that has been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Inspiration, Greatness, Wind

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• Noah Calhoun watched the fading sun sink lower from the wrap around porch of his plantation-style home.He liked to sit here in the evenings, especially after working hard all day.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Home, Style, Sun

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.8, Hachette UK

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