Fading Flower Quotes

#1. I do not love the flowers that are about to expire. I fear my dotage mirrors the fading flower. Lush, blooming blossoms fall like a shower. I say to the young buds: let your prime retire.

Amy S. Kwei

#2. 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

#3. Swift flies our time on pinions fleet, Like vapours on the breeze; The transient bliss we now call sweet, The passing moments seize. The gilded joy, the present hour, Soon wing themselves away; Departing like the fading flower That pleas'd us Yesterday.

William Muir

#4. If I were to say, "God, why me?" about the bad things, then I should have said, "God, why me?" about the good things that happened in my life.

Arthur Ashe

#5. I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#6. Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk.

Beverley Nichols

#7. Who am I kidding? This isn't a fairy tale. It's my life.

Zoe Cruz

#8. I can't help feeling humiliated for Ithal. He stands at the wall and watches us go, and when we reach the turnoff for the school, he's still there with the mangled flower in his hands, far behind us a small, dying star fading out of our constellation.

Libba Bray

#9. For paradise in the world to come is uncertain, but there is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven we inhabit when we read a good book.

Christopher Morley

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

George Peele

#11. Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.

Henry Rollins

#12. O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

John Milton

#13. Love the fading flowers as much as you love the undifferentiated which lasts forever.

Frederick Lenz

#14. There is tremendous life and personality in a name. It should be at least as agonized over as any character trait.

Travis Beacham

#15. We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy Scriptures to those fading beauties whose roots, being buried in dishonor, rise again in glory.

John Evelyn

#16. I HIDE myself within my flower
That wearing on your breast,
You, unsuspecting, wear me too
And angels know the rest.
I hide myself within my flower,
That, fading from your vase,
You, unsuspecting, feel for me
Almost a loneliness ...

Emily Dickinson

#17. Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds.

Friedrich Schiller