Fading World Quotes

#1. The music and applause fast fading from his ears, Bruce would lay down his guitar, grit his teeth, and walk dutifuly back into his father's charred vision of the world.

Peter Ames Carlin

#2. Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art ... I have to try and think what an artist is, apart from a hooligan who cannot live within his income of praise.

Quentin Crisp

#3. 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

#4. If you pour everything you have into this life, this world, which is temporary and fading, you're jeopardizing your relationship with God, the only thing that's eternal.

Craig Groeschel

#5. There is more to life than surviving

Cassandra Clare

#6. charged the dikes at Domburg, and spindrift

David Mitchell

#7. 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

#8. Be near me. The world is rowdy and nothing is certain. Do not stray. None of us was meant to face the day and the night alone, though that is what we do and memory now is a place of fading togetherness. Be near me. True love is what God intends.

Andrew O'Hagan

#9. Lines of light ran up towering structures, fading into the stars. The world felt vast, as if anything could get lost in it.

Cory Michael Sheldon

#10. There's no unemployment insurance if you don't have a job in wrestling. You really have to be committed, to have a love and a passion for the sport, a belief in yourself that you can do it.

Chris Jericho

#11. Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.

Denis Dutton

#12. Savior, if of Zion's city I through grace a member am; Let the world deride or pity, I will glory in thy name Fading is the worldling's pleasure, All his boasted pomp and show; Solid joys and lasting treasure, None but Zion's children know.

John Newton

#13. My world had been fading to gray until she burst in like a bombshell of color and light...

Emma Scott

#14. The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.

William C. Bryant

#15. between the word and the world lie
fading eternities of soon

Laura Riding

#16. With Clinton, of course, the term "world stage" was peculiarly literal: he had a fading vaudevillian's desperation to be loved.

Mark Steyn

#17. My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call.

A.K. Kuykendall

#18. Facts speak louder than statistics.

Geoffrey Streatfeild

#19. Some memories never heal. Rather than fading with the passage of time, those memories become the only things that are left behind when all else is abraded. The world darkens, like electric bulbs going out one by one. I am aware that I am not a safe person.

Han Kang

#20. The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

George Orwell

#21. I fear debt. I don't like being indebted to banks. I have a rule in life that I will get it when I can afford it.

Vir Das

#22. We're just doing our best to live in this world, Davy." Sean's voice stretches into the fading dark. "We're not perfect, but we're not monsters, either. We're just human.

Sophie Jordan

#23. Staring at the world through the bottom of a glass, all I see is a man who's fading fast.

Merle Haggard

#24. 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

#25. It's hard to argue with someone that won't argue with you.

Victoria Osteen

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

Hayden Carruth

#27. It seems like such a long time ago when I thought the world of him. He was some exotic planet and I was his favorite satellite. But he's no planet, just the final fading light of an already dead star.

And I'm not a satellite. I'm space junk, hurtling as far as I can away from him.

Nicola Yoon

#28. Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen.

Ivan Illich

#29. Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.

John Gielgud

#30. I don't know what's worse, your stupidity or your low opinion of me.

Blake M. Petit

#31. The benefits of our increasingly digital lives have been accompanied by new dangers, and we have been forced to consider how criminals and terrorists might use advances in technology to their advantage.

James Comey

#32. In a world where there were no specifically mental facts, is it not plain that there would be a complete impartiality, an evenly diffused light, not the central illumination fading away into outer darkness, which is characteristic of objects in relation to a mind?

Bertrand Russell

#33. lmost everything looked more beautiful from a distance, the earth becoming more perfect as one ascended and came closer to seeing the world from God's eyes, man's hovels and palaces disappearing, the peaks and valleys of geography fading to become strokes of a paintbrush on a divine sphere.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#34. It didn't make me glow. I felt more like I was fading away, like the world had forgotten me.

Lucy Christopher

#35. [Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.

Elie Wiesel

#36. As the earth dies your spirit will bloom; as the world fades your soul will rise and glisten. Amongst the dehydrated crevices of a desert earth you will stumble upon your diamonds; in between the dry skulls and cracked bones you will find your sapphires.

C. JoyBell C.