Quotes about Fading
Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.
- Charles Dickens
Only when we are thus ''dead to the world and all its toys, its idle pomp and fading joys'' can we feel the freedom that Paul knew.
- Leonard Ravenhill
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
The world around him began to dim. Sylous's final words sounded far away as Jamie's consciousness faded. "I need you. I need all of you.
- Ted Dekker
I watched your snapshot fade for twenty years.
- Margaret Atwood
Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forgetWhat thou among the leaves hast never known,The weariness, the fever, and the fretHere, where men sit and hear each other groan;Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs,Where youth grows pale, and specter-thin, and dies;Where but to think is to be full of sorrowAnd leaden-eyed despairs.
- John Keats
Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.
- Aristotle
They had forgotten — as people inevitably forget
- F Scott Fitzgerald
All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf.
- Anonymous
Because they had no root, they withered away.
- Anonymous
He knew that beauty faded quickly when embodied by selfishness...
- Francine Rivers
Worldly honor is passé. It is part of a fading kingdom. Honor in Christ is the only true honor.
- Edward Welch