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Most famous stage actors tactfully fade away. -- Robert Gottlieb
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away. -- Douglas MacArthur
It's better to burn out, than to fade away. -- Neil Young
Old actors never die, they don't even fade away. They're always available. -- Russell Johnson
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Because ALS is underfunded, patients have had no option but to fade away and die. That is not OK. -- Steve Gleason
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all. -- Bob Dylan
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
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. -- Bertrand Russell
There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life. -- Pete Maravich
I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it. -- Jackie Earle Haley
I'd rather die than fade away -- Jon Bon Jovi
It's better to burn out than fade away. -- Kurt Cobain
It is better to burn out then fade away -- Neil Young
It's better to burn out than to fade away. --
I watch with breaking heart as you slowly fade away -- Nicholas Sparks
Never mind what haters say, ignore them 'til they fade away. -- T.I.
A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away. -- Kurt Cobain
It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. -- John Lennon
With time, the hurt would begin to fade away, but not the memories. -- Anamika Mishra
Beauty will never fade away from the eyes of those who love one another. -- Auliq Ice
I have something to say: it's better to burn out, than to fade away. -- Clancy Brown
The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous -- John le Carre
While we're living the dreams we have as children fade away'. Not if you support United! -- Gary Neville
loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away. -- Milan Kundera
I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my memory of the sound. -- Ken Kesey
In that undifferentiated reality of the Self there is eternal bliss. All the phantoms of existence fade away. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I don't have the passion anymore, and so remember, it's beter to burn out than to fade away. -- Kurt Cobain
And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream. -- Marcel Proust
The beauty of one's life would never seize to fade away the moment hate settles in one's heart. -- Edmond Mbiaka
As cities grow and technology takes over the world, belief and imagination fade away, and so do we. -- Julie Kagawa
Romance lasts forever, love don't fade away. They may take away our future, but they can't stop yesterday. -- John Denver
There's nothing more horrifying than the possibility or the idea that you will just fade away into obscurity. -- Marc Maron
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Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure. -- Assia Djebar
The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation. -- Plato
When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade away. -- R. T. Kendall
Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away. They just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is, Friday, March 6, 1981. -- Walter Cronkite
I don't want friends to die...or fade away. I don't want battles where we have to lose in order to win. -- Yuna
He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist. -- Lois Lowry
On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade away. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Life goes on, end of tunnel, TV set Spot in the middle Static fade, statistic bit And soon I fade away, fade away -- Dave Matthews
If there never was a night or day and memories could fade away, then we'd be nothing left but the dreams we made -- Selena Gomez
Then fear will grow pale and fade away, and you will be free, through your faith in our strong and living Savior, Jesus Christ. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf. -- Christina Rossetti
Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits -- Frederick Crews
Cooking has always brought me a happiness that I didn't think was available. I just fire up the stove, and things start to fade away. -- Paula Deen
You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away. -- Dick Ebersol
...great feeling of enthusiasm..this human component began to fade away, leaving only that supernatural enthusisam which must always be at the root of our perseverance. -- Salvador Bernal
Nature, take my breath with you; renew it with the wild breeze and fill my being up with so much soul, ego learns to fade away. -- Nikki Rowe
Evil can be helped to fade away more quickly if we remain in obedience to the Law of Love - evil must be overcome with good. -- Peace Pilgrim
Any captain can only do his best for the team and for cricket. When you are winning, you are a hero. Lose, and the backslappers fade away. -- Richie Benaud
Our thinking tends to be hazy, hasty, narrow, or sprawling-causal terms for impulsive. Just like anything else, thinking skills require upkeep. If they aren't nourished, they'll fade away. -- David Perkins
I don't want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art. -- Jennifer Egan
Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot of burgeoning goes on. -- Fay Weldon
Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad. -- George Jones
Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade away. It just divides and becomes two new amoebas. -- George Wald
Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality. -- Hermann Minkowski
If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness. -- Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead. -- Homer
But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the stories, we'd just fade away. -- Charles de Lint
I certainly spent many years in my early life chasing all over the globe for meaning and purpose. I'd feel like I'd found it, then it would fade away again. -- Roger Housden
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket / Never let it fade away / Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket / Save it for a rainy day -- Perry Como
I didn't want to make the same mistake my parents made. I didn't want my love to fade away one day like an old scar. I wanted it to burn forever. -- Jenny Han
Don't worry about what the people say. Sometimes they'll praise you. Sometimes they'll condemn you. All these things all fade away. And in the end, Allah takes care of everything. Perfectly. -- Yasmin Mogahed
In meditation all the fake dull thoughts that you think, all the ridiculous philosophies, the necessities, all the things that won't matter a bit when you are dead - fade away. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Like a raisin in the sun; that will swivel up and fade away. Your success dreams will swivel up and fade away, if you are not motivated enough to work for them. -- Jon Jones
If man were never to fade away ... but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty. -- Yoshida Kenko
Filmmakers don't work for posterity. We create with celluloid and chemical pigments that don't last very long. They fade away. In 200 years there will be nothing left of our work but dust. -- Louis Malle
It's really interesting making films and actually seeing the life that they have in the subsequent years and seeing which ones stand up over time and which ones sort of fade away. -- Guy Pearce
I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain. -- Kate Morton
Being different is ... interesting; there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away. -- Edward Albee
The sunken grave would fade away, probably in my lifetime. If I could avoid killer zombies for a few years. And vampires. And gun-toting humans. Oh, hell, the hot-spot would probably outlast me. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Once you realize that you control what your tomorrow will look like based upon the activities you choose to do today, suddenly the worries, past pain, hurt, and anger starts to fade away. -- Ken Poirot
Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks. Some doors are opened, some roads are blocked. Sundowns are golden, then fade away. And if I never do nothing, I'll get you back someday. -- Tom Petty
I think it's better to burn out than to fade away... it's better to live out your days being very, very active - even if it destroys you - than to quietly... disappear. -- Ahmet Ertegun
A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away. -- Ivan Turgenev
A terminal diagnosis can really mess with your head. Honestly, it makes you want to run away to the moon. Many ALS patients want to fade away quietly. This was not for me. -- Steve Gleason
Now the darkness only stays at night time In the morning it will fade away Daylight is good at arriving at the right time No it's not always going to be this grey. -- George Harrison
Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away. -- W. G. Sebald
Am I a guy who writes about himself in a comic book, or am I just a character in that book? If I die, will that character keep going, or will he just fade away? -- Harvey Pekar
For perfect love casteth out fear, and fear can only be from the material things that soon must fade away. And thus hold to the higher thought of eternity. For life is a continual experience. -- Edgar Cayce
Everybody can perform, there are so many outlets. Musicians are no longer limited. In the past, the record companies made most of the money. I for one am not sorry to see them fade away. -- Jake Holmes
And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken. -- Tiffanie DeBartolo
I can get lazy. I don't think I'm a very driven person. When I have work, I work very hard. But when I don't work, I really don't do anything. I could easily just fade away. -- Steve Carell
You do not use art as a means to an end, but as a way to inhabit and explore the present. Right and wrong fade away; you recover your sense of what is authentic in you. -- Michele Cassou
Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye. -- Douglas MacArthur
Without the lord to shield you and guide you, you gonna fade away. Jah is your shield and your guide. The wicked man gotta turn aside. No need to fear no wicked guide. Rastafari protect your life! -- Sizzla
It's like my garden, love. Everything grows. Including love. And with that growing everyday how can you expect missing her to ever fade away? Everything builds, including our ability to cope with it. That's how we keep going. -- Cecelia Ahern
Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day: Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away, To sleep! to sleep! Sleep, mournful heart, and let the past be past: Sleep, happy soul, all life will sleep at last. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. -- Joseph Addison
I cannot let a place that is so important to so many people fade away. Something that is wonder and comfort and mystery all together that they have nowhere else. If you had that, wouldn't you want to keep it? -- Erin Morgenstern
You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing. And, of course, if the right thing is established wrong things will fade away of their own accord. -- Peace Pilgrim
Only when self moves out of the way can His spectacular glory come cascading through your life. When Jesus is in His rightful place, all insecurity will fade away and His lasting loveliness will become the mark of your life. -- Leslie Ludy
Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers of genius would overstock the world, and the mind would be completely bewildered in the endless mazes of literature. -- Washington Irving
You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers. -- Al Pacino
Meditation gives us peace of mind without a tranquilizer. And unlike a tranquilizer, the peace of mind that we get from meditation does not fade away. It lasts for good in some corner of the inmost recesses of our aspiring heart. -- Sri Chinmoy
You were everything, everything that I wanted. We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it. And all of the memories, so close to me, just fade away. All this time you were pretending. So much for my happy ending. -- Avril Lavigne
Filled with mingled cream and amber I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chambers of my brain -- Quaintest thoughts -- queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today -- Edgar Allan Poe
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat. -- John le Carre
Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world. -- Louis de Bernieres
To die is more important than trying to be alive. When we try to be alive, we have trouble. Rather than trying to be alive or active, if we can be calm and die or fade away into emptiness, then naturally we will be all right. -- Shunryu Suzuki
People love destroying mankind, for some strange reason. You make a movie about mankind's destruction, you're going to fill seats. People just love the idea. For a couple thousand years, we've been dreaming up how we're all going to disappear and fade away from this planet. -- Michelle Rodriguez
Without extended, concentrated prayer, the ministry of the Word withers. And when the ministry of the Word declines, faith (Rom. 10:17; Gal. 3:2, 5) and holiness (John 17:17) decline. Activity may continue, but life and power and fruitfulness fade away. Therefore, whatever opposes prayer opposes the whole work of ministry. -- John Piper
If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. In other words, begin to act the part, as well as you can, of the person you would rather be, the person you most want to become. Gradually, the old, fearful person will fade away. -- William Glasser
The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away. -- Douglas MacArthur
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When the sunset of life arrives, and its twilight shadows fade away; while dreams of the next begin to appear more vividly; may the inner-light essence of the Buddha, and all the radiant awakened ones, continuously guide us onwards and upwards, on the path of spiritual enlightment. -- Surya Das
I have seen so many bands and musicians fade away, especially the ones in my early days that treated me and my bands with contempt for no other reason than that they were headlining the show, not all though, with great exceptions such as Slade and Vinegar Joe. -- Bernie Marsden
People should have all their big adventures while they're still under the age of fourteen. If you don't, you start to lose your passion for big adventures. It just begins to fade away bit by bit and then you forget you ever wanted adventures in the first place. -- Ellen Potter
I faded away for a while out of necessity. -- Phoebe Snow
Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts. -- Mick Jagger
In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away. -- John Lothrop Motley
Rock n' roll seems like it's faded away sometimes, but it will never die. -- Alex Turner
Friendships that don't fit my life anymore have faded away, and new ones have come in. -- Amanda Lindhout
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time. -- Frank Norris
Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away. -- Lafcadio Hearn
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
Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace. -- Raul Julia

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