Fading Quotes

[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.

I've lived the American Dream, but, sadly, for too many, the American Dream is fading.

Pale in her fading bowers the Summer stands, Like a new Niobe with claspèd hands, Silent above the flowers, her children lost, Slain by the arrows of the early Frost.

It didn't make me glow. I felt more like I was fading away, like the world had forgotten me.

He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard, like old aristocrats, fading away; antique relics of times gone by.

What if we're all like that? Like ghosts ... in someone's mind ... gradually fading ... fading ... until finally ... one day ... we just disappear ... drift into nothingness. Wouldn't that be sad?

I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.

The individual who fears the criticism of others is no different from the one who seeks their praise. Both are shadow figures, fading into the landscape, lacking the will to act for themselves.

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

When things become too popular they are always fading away for something else.

Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.

Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.

To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; coy looks, with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth

The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America.

Our heroes of the former days deserved and gained their never-fading bays.

Scheduling is always tough, no matter what the budget size is, and we had our own run-ins with that, on 'Fading of the Cries.'

Surely 't is better, when summer is over To die when all fair things are fading away.

You realize who you're in love with is fading fast. You don't know what to do, but in that period time moves so slowly.

Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.

Justice is a fading light.

If you are a star in Hollywood then you are always a star in your eyes, but not always in the eyes of new directors for whom your great performances are always fading into the past.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

You went to Woodstock and all that trash, your generation is fading fast.

I like to look put together without trying too hard. I don't want to look as if God's made another rainbow - I prefer muted, autumnal colours, like most fading redheads.

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.

Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.

his eyes took in the barren slopes and the scattered boulders and the lonley gray road windingits way into the fading hills,and i could feel him thinking to himself this is no place to die

[Donald trump] is moved from the enemy being Barack Obama, now gone, fading is Hillary Clinton, and there is no question he's chosen the enemy.

On the Continent and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic.

The interest in Wisdom is fading. Soon there will not be enough left to support the aphorism, even though it tries to amuse by half-mocking the Wisdom it propounds.

Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek soft flesh and hot blood.

I thought that we were getting somewhere, but we're still nowhere at all. I watch your tail lights fading, I try but a tear won't fall.

Love the fading flowers as much as you love the undifferentiated which lasts forever.

Those cultural wars, Sexual Revolution issues are fading from the scene, and the coming generation has basically settled them.

Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all.

Beauty,--the fading rainbow's pride.

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.

Our yesterdays Are like a lonely and a ruined land Wherein a breeze of recollection sighs-- A fading land to which is no return.

My concern is less the monarchy as such than the attempt of a fading colonial power to hang onto grandeur.

He was already fading. I knew that it wouldn't be long until he was just a vague image, however much I tried to cling onto his memory.

Ever since her diagnosis, she’s been fading like a light bulb with cancer’s hand on the rotary dimmer.

I am suspended in the moment. Flickering images faded with age, frozen thoughts hovering precariously in dead space, a whirlwind of memories that slice through my soul.

I'm a Polaroid developing in reverse

Maybe we ran out of words, maybe we don't know what to say, maybe we both want to go our separate ways, maybe we want to speak up but we're afraid. All I know is this feeling isn't fading away.

If you pour everything you have into this life, this world, which is temporary and fading, you're jeopardizing your relationship with God, the only thing that's eternal.

The first thing fading is your beautythe least trustworthy is your minddown here on this earthnothing's of any worth—in the end

The first thing fading is your beautythe least trustworthy is your minddown here on this earthnothing's of any worthin the endin the end

We are nothing but shadows Fading away Trying to hold on to This bittersweet life That we call our own...

A lie can only make a temporary sense. The truth is permanent and lasts forever.