Fading Quotes

• 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.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • God
  • Belief

• Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence on a noxious private planet they can never leave, and where they can receive no visitors.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • World
  • Depression
  • Loneliness

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

  

  William Gibson
  • Body
  • Cold
  • Hands

• 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
  • Ocean
  • Stars

• What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Alone
  • Pain
  • Humans

• We have ignored this cancer for so long that the romance of environmental concern is already fading in the shadow of the grim realities of lakes, rivers and bays where all forms of life have been smothered by untreated wastes, and oceans which no longer provide us with food.

  

  Edmund S. Muskie
  • Cancer
  • Environmental
  • Concern

• 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
  • Evening

• I think the notion of traditional anchor is fading away - the all-knowing, all-seeing person who speaks from on high. I don't think the audience really buys that anymore. As a viewer, I know I don't buy it.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Thinking
  • High
  • Speak

• A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.

  

  Kate Simon
  • Summer
  • Watches
  • Twilight

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

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Generations
  • Fading
  • Woodstock

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

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Away
  • Fading

• Desertion is the army's dirty little secret. Since the beginning of the Iraq war, more than 20,000 American soldiers have given up the fight. Most of them disappear while at home on leave, fading into a network of family and friends, and the army does not typically chase them down.

  

  Wil S. Hylton
  • Friends
  • American
  • Secret

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

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Concern
  • Monarchy
  • Grandeur

• Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • School
  • Easier