Fading quotes
46 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen."
"The god hypothesis is no longer of any pragmatic value for the interpretation or comprehension of nature, and indeed often stands in the way of better and truer interpretation. Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler, but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire Cat."
"I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally."
"Now it's closing time/the music's fading out."
"Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds."
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"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."
"Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right or wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Now life interested him more."
"Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations."
"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."
"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."
