Beauty Is Fading Quotes

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

Propertius

#2. The most beautiful heart of all is the one that can still love even while it bleeds, and especially after its been broken into thousands of pieces.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#3. She was about forty: In her youth She had been a Beauty; But her charms had been upon that large scale which can but ill sustain the shock of years: However She still possessed some remains of them.

Matthew Gregory Lewis

#4. 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

#5. People want to will their self realization. They want to know what the right thing to do all the time is. There is no right thing. There's no code. There are certain basic recommendations.

Frederick Lenz

#6. 'When two people meet who are obviously attracted to each other, like we are, it always starts out as a game. I make a move, you make a move, and if the moves are correct, we both win.'

S.J.D. Peterson

#7. After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

Jean Cocteau

#8. The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.

Lawrence Lessig

#9. Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.

Delta Burke

#10. Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen;
Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.

George Peele

#11. Her face was plastered with layers of powder and looked like a face of stone. And with her noble profile, she seemed, on the triangular, moss-covered pedestal hidden by her cape, like a crumbling goddess in a park.

Marcel Proust

#12. Most of the people who say beauty fades say it with a smirk. Fading is more than just expected, it's what they want to see. I don't.

Helen Oyeyemi

#13. Beauty's of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!

Robert Burns

#14. I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well.

Eva Mendes

#15. 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

#16. One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#17. Lou stood at the kitchen sink, her eyes unfocused on her hazy reflection in the window. Outside the sky was fading from steely blue to indigo. The mountain range beyond was a solid sheet of black, cut out by a child's sloppy scissors.

Danika Stone

#18. The beauty of his face, artfully shadowed and lit from the fading firelight, it fairly stunned me.

Juliette Miller

#19. Beauty was worth
Its every sorrow, mind's fading or World's ending,
As darkness covered the garden that is the earth.

Hayden Carruth

#20. She was one of those women who are usually referred to in the past tense, of whom one says: 'She had a certain freshness and bloom about her,' and whose freshness and bloom passed unnoticed even when she still had them.

Gabriel Chevallier

#21. But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.

Aaron Eckhart

#22. She will never know that tonight, she was mine.

Karen Marie Moning

#23. She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not so much the work of man as the work of wind and rain and the herd of the seasons, and though formed in men's image is a figure of doom.

Djuna Barnes

#24. 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

#25. I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.

Bill Terry