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Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm. -- Anna Seward
Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth. -- Isaac Barrow
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. -- George Orwell
I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten. -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
My star was kind of fading towards the end of the '60s and suddenly I got this call from Fellini, who just appeared to kind of love me! -- Terence Stamp
The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music. -- Bobby Vinton
The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted. -- Jan Peter Balkenende
There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again. -- Emmanuelle Beart
In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India. -- V. S. Naipaul
While I was in London it was completely upside-down. I got a whole new life and it was a challenge to keep in touch with my life in Ireland, but it was great fun. Now though, I've been back home since November and gradually all connections with my HP life have been fading. -- Evanna Lynch
Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall. -- Daniel Woodrell
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. -- Thomas Ian Nicholas
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.' -- Thomas Ian Nicholas
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. -- T. S. Eliot
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. -- Jim Butcher
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
I like people-watching and fading into crowds. -- Kristen Johnston
O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly. -- John Milton
I'd be a butterfly; living a rover, Dying when fair things are fading away. -- Thomas Haynes Bayly
Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated. -- Paulette Alden
When you see the setting, wait for the rising. Why worry about a sunset or a fading moon? -- Rumi
I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading. -- Pat Bowlen
But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone. -- John Ratzenberger
Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior. -- John Newton
What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age. -- Sylvia Plath
I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too. -- John Keats
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! -- Walter Savage Landor
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. -- Alan Greenspan
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. -- Blaise Pascal
Obama seems to inspire a bizarre personal loyalty among his advocates, particularly among young people who should by all rights be concerned with their fading futures and collapsing prospects. -- Ben Shapiro
If I can stand up when I'm 80, I'll be happy to cruise around on a skateboard. If I feel like my skills are fading, I just won't do it publicly. -- Tony Hawk
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. -- Anne Robinson
It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich. -- Hans Frank
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
Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading. -- W. H. Auden
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
Encouragement is awesome. Think about it. It has the capacity to lift a man's or a woman's shoulders. To breathe fresh air into the fading embers of a smoldering dream. To actually change the course of another human being's day, week, or life. -- Charles R. Swindoll
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. So I made an economic decision, and it turned out the best judgment I ever made in my life. -- Alan Greenspan
In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals. -- David Mitchell
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
My grandmother died from Alzheimer's, and it was a big shock. For the families left behind, it is not an easy closure. It's not a gradual fading. The person is losing so much of their humanity as they're dying. Losing your memories, you lose so much of who you are as a person. -- Rosecrans Baldwin
Being a father can 'unreason' your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. It's sad that children's open-eyed wonder and sense of play begin to fade as they approach adolescence. One grand function of fathering is to keep the fading to a minimum. -- Clyde Edgerton
I guess I just always imagined that I was going to die, like, somehow on top. I was going to, like, go out in some sort of blaze of glory. I never thought about sort of fading into obscurity. And I've worked so hard at having a life, an identity, in obscurity and finding peace with that. -- Steve-O
The state can be a force for good. The Rule of law is absolutely essential to a good life. God has instituted government and leaders throughout history and throughout the Biblical narrative. However, the state is growing precisely as the church is fading as a force for good, and this does not seem to be a good trend. -- Dave Brat
People give flowers as present because flowers contain true meaning of love. Anyone who tries to posses a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower in the field, you'll keep it forever. That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why i will never lose you. -- Paulo Coelho
Fading, with the Night, the memory of a dead love, and the withered leaves of a blighted hope, and the sickly repinings and moody regrets that numb the best energies of the soul: and rising, broadening, rolling upward like a living flood, the manly resolve, and the dauntless will, and the heavenward gaze of faith-the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen! -- Lewis Carroll
Justice is a fading light. -- Sheryl Crow
Beauty,--the fading rainbow's pride. -- Fitz-Greene Halleck
He makes a swan-like end, fading in music -- William Shakespeare
Now it's closing time/the music's fading out. -- Tom Waits
I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
New words are always being born and old ones fading away. -- Patience Strong
Beauty's of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone! -- Robert Burns
Our heroes of the former days deserved and gained their never-fading bays. -- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
You went to Woodstock and all that trash, your generation is fading fast. -- Rod Stewart
The very life of any creature is a quick-fading spark in fathomless darkness. -- Anthony Doerr
When things become too popular they are always fading away for something else. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I'm just trying to remember what self-respect feels like. It's a fading memory. -- Misha Collins
The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful. -- Gary Shteyngart
Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all. -- Propertius
Love the fading flowers as much as you love the undifferentiated which lasts forever. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Oh, the self-importance of fading stars. Never mind, they will be black holes one day. -- Jeffrey Bernard
I've lived the American Dream, but, sadly, for too many, the American Dream is fading. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations. -- Carl Sandburg
The lights became stars, which became streaks in the grayspace, and then networks of fading shimmers -- Ashim Shanker
We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails. -- Oswald Chambers
Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green. -- George Peele
Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky. -- William Gibson
Surely 't is better, when summer is over To die when all fair things are fading away. -- Thomas Haynes Bayly
Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away. -- V.C. Andrews
The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America. -- William J. Clinton
Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race. -- Abraham Cowley
This red-fading-into-brown defines Queens for me; it is quiet and melancholy and postsuccessful, vaguely British in its disposition. -- Gary Shteyngart
It didn't make me glow. I felt more like I was fading away, like the world had forgotten me. -- Lucy Christopher
Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone. -- Edwin Way Teale
Staring at the world through the bottom of a glass, all I see is a man who's fading fast. -- Merle Haggard
Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds. -- Friedrich Schiller
To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; coy looks, with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth -- William Shakespeare
Those cultural wars, Sexual Revolution issues are fading from the scene, and the coming generation has basically settled them. -- David Brooks
My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow. -- Yoko Ono
The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth." -- Rabindranath Tagore
O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity -- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past. -- Don DeLillo
there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home. -- Jon McGregor
Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls. -- Alfred Noyes
Protect the ears of your heart, rather than being drawn in each day like the fading tides that dance daily with the moon. -- Eric Samuel Timm
The world is sagging, snagging, scaling, spalling, pilling, pinging, pitting, warping, checking, fading, chipping, cracking, yellowing, leaking, stalling, shrinking, and in dynamic unbalance. -- Donald Barthelme
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
Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
On the Continent and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic. -- Mark Steyn
I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten. -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
Many ALS patients end up fading away quietly and dying. For me, this was not OK. I did not want to fade away quietly. -- Steve Gleason
Our yesterdays Are like a lonely and a ruined land Wherein a breeze of recollection sighs-- A fading land to which is no return. -- Henry Abbey
I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. -- Douglas MacArthur
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
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. -- Taylor Swift
Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset? -- Daniele Vare
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
Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight. -- Aeschylus
When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author. -- Orhan Pamuk
Lorelei sat at the window of her drawing room, painting in the fading daylight. It was yet another portrait of Jack, her favorite piece of fruit. -- Kinley MacGregor
Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the magic glow of desire. -- Eric Hoffer
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. -- Miley Cyrus
Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. -- John Keats
All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in the dismal sea." -- Nathan Reese Maher
All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in the dismal sea. -- Nathan Reese Maher
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? -- Walter Wykes
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
Deep in my soul, I've been so lonely, all of my hopes fading away. I've longed for love, like everyone else does, I know I'll keep searching after today. -- Bob Seger
If you say the Rosary faithfully unto death, I do assure you that, in spite of the gravity of your sins, 'you will receive a never-fading crown of glory' -- Louis de Montfort
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. -- Mason Cooley
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Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away. -- Walt Whitman
Coming home seemed to have started the healing process. No longer vivid and garish, the memories seemed to be covered in gossemer, fading behind a curtain of time and forgiveness. -- Karen Fowler
Some men simply refuse to appear insulted. But then, having felt the sting from the slap on their cheek, know just where to slip the knife, their smile never fading. -- Andrew Levkoff
Pale in her fading bowers the Summer stands,Like a new Niobe with claspÃ¨d hands,Silent above the flowers, her children lost,Slain by the arrows of the early Frost. -- Richard Henry Stoddard
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
Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist. -- Rebecca Solnit
We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them. -- Junichiro Tanizaki

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