Top 100 Faint Quotes
#1. If I faint, pull me out. No Lannister has ever drowned in his bath and I don't mean to be the first." "Why should I care how you die?" "You swore a solemn vow.
George R R Martin
#2. O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.
William Shakespeare
#3. Alex fainted-"
"I didn't faint," I grumbled, feeling my cheeks flush.
Aiden's lip curved up on one side. "Okay. She was suddenly not walking or talking anymore ...
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#4. And you know what wickedness is, and shame, and fear. There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#5. Photography used to be not for the faint of heart. Its rigors would weed out the not-so-committed pretty quickly. You had to crank the f-stop ring yourself!
Joe McNally
#6. 8A faint clap of thunder
Even if the rain comes not,
I will stay here, together with you
Shinkai Makoto
#7. The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.
Peter McWilliams
#8. Remember that day I made you the elevator?" he suddenly asks.
I give him a faint smile. "How could I forget?"
"That was the day I had my first kiss."
My smile fades.
"I'm better now," He sets the apple beside me. "At kissing, just so you know.
Stephanie Perkins
#9. The instant of petrified violence that sometimes foreruns a summer storm saturated the hushed yard, and in the unearthly tinseled light rusty buckets of trailing fern which were strung round the porch like party lanterns appeared illuminated by a faint green inward flame.
Truman Capote
#10. Give me for my friends and neighbors wild men, not tame ones. The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet.
Henry David Thoreau
#11. I craned my neck to see his face, which was pointed toward the wall. What looked like a puncture mark was visible on his neck. I held my fingers to a pulse point. The beating was faint. No wonder this man was the most quiet grown-up in the library. He was dying.
Shari Hearn
#12. If he full-out flexed, I would probably faint, or jump off the building.
Ilona Andrews
#13. I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these infinitely distant galaxies is so faint that we cannot see them.
Johann Heinrich Lambert
#14. It is a miracle that anything gets made. It's not for the faint of heart, at all. You could so easily get really depressed or really down about the whole thing, but you just don't.
Kevin Munroe
#15. Like faint flowers in the diaphonous fabrics of the twenties: beautiful, trivial fabrics so flimsy they could not hope to last?
Kate Morton
#16. One of those big hands ran over his short hair and I swear my sex wept in gratitude at the sight. I was out of control. If he fondled his beard I might faint.
Anonymous
#17. There was some kind of passion between them. It gave off a faint wrong smoky odor, like something burning where it shouldn't be, arson committed by children playing with matches. I
Ross Macdonald
#18. For a moment he felt it, like a faint pulsing: the lightness that came with a few lazy summer months, the quiet joy in being connected to people you loved and who loved you.
Natalie Baszile
#19. It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
Henry Ward Beecher
#20. He discovered in his heart the first faint whispering of pure Christianity, and in some way he continued to keep his virtue intact by keeping his vices active.
Thorne Smith
#21. If you spent your whole life worrying about the consequences of your actions you'd never get anything done and the consequences of that would be unthinkable, wouldn't they? Faint heart never bowled a maiden over, you know.
Ian Potter
#22. Here, brush this old hair aside; it blinds me, that I seem to weep. Locks so grey did never grow but from out some ashes! But do I look very old, so very, very old, Starbuck? I feel deadly faint, bowed, and humped, as though I were Adam, staggering beneath the piled centuries since Paradise.
Herman Melville
#23. For a long time, they sat without speaking. The air outside was filled with the lilting sound of sparrows, the buzz of traffic on Main Street, and under that the faint lapping of waves on the lakeshore. Lou smiled. It wasn't the same, but it was better.
And better, Lou thought, is a start.
Danika Stone
#24. The moon was obscured by heavy clouds. January was already past the mid-mark and the early delta spring would soon be on them. Already on the night was the faint, fresh smell of buddings and the intimacy that comes from the warm delta air trapped between slumbering earth and lowering clouds.
Leslie H. Whitten Jr.
#25. There were a few faint echoes from the common room two floors below, and a brief flurry of noise and movement, but this served only to emphasize my own isolation.
Diana Gabaldon
#26. Pain, that was not yet the pain of love, fretted his heart. Silently, in a dream she had come to him after her death, her wasted body within its loose brown graveclothes giving off an odour of wax and rosewood, her breath, that had bent upon him, mute, reproachful, a faint odour of wetted ashes.
James Joyce
#27. Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam rising from the teapot shawl.
Gerald Durrell
#28. A person seldom falls sick, but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#29. The college dreamed on
awake. He felt a nervous excitement that might have been the very throb of its slow heart. It was a stream where he was to throw a stone whose faint ripple would be vanishing almost as it left his hand. As yet he had nothing, he had taken nothing.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#30. Being a teenager these days is not for the faint of heart.
Melody Carlson
#31. I'm a huge Wes Anderson fan; I would faint if I met him, let alone got to work with him.
Emma Roberts
#32. First thing I did when I found out I made it into the top 13 is I tried not to faint and you know, I took it all in and I really looked at the crowd and said a big 'thank you'.
Haley Reinhart
#33. Were knowledge all, what were our need
To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?
Christopher Brennan
#34. Let us watch against unbelief, pride, and self-confidence . If we go forth in our own strength, we shall faint, and utterly fall; but having our hearts and our hopes in heaven, we shall be carried above all difficulties, and be enabled to lay hold of the prize of our high calling in Christ Jesus.
Matthew Henry
#35. Humour is but the faint terrestrial echo of the hideous laughter of the blind mad gods that squat leeringly and sardonically in caverns beyond the Milky Way. It is a hollow thing, sweet on the outside, but filled with the pathos of fruitless aspiration.
H.P. Lovecraft
#36. I saw huge buildings rise up faint and fair, and pass like dreams.
H.G.Wells
#37. I'd heard someone say that the end of most things often bears a resemblance - even if faint - to their beginnings
Chigozie Obioma
#38. Ransie was a narrow six feet of sallow brown skin and yellow hair. The imperturbability of the mountains hung upon him like a suit of armor. The woman was calicoed, angled, snuff-brushed, and weary with unknown desires. Through it all gleamed a faint protest of cheated youth unconscious of its loss.
O. Henry
#39. On the plus side, if he ever had to fight through a roomful of adolescent girls, he only needed to blink (his velvet brown eyes framed in embarassingly long lashes) a few times, and they would all faint.
Ilona Andrews
#40. The elevator doors opened, and Ranger stepped out and spied Tank stretched out on the carpet.
"Fainted," I said.
Ranger walked to Tank and stood hands on hips, staring down at him. "Tank doesn't faint. I've been in firefights with him. He's a rock."
"Well, the rock fainted.
Janet Evanovich
#41. PRO24.10 If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
Anonymous
#42. Then, slowly, like the sunrise peeking over the horizon, she smiled.
She snapped the box closed.
She didn't scream. She didn't run. She didn't faint.
There might have been a little crying.
But mostly ... she danced.
Cora Carmack
#43. He could smell her crackling white apron and the faint flavour of toast that always hung about her so deliciously.
P.L. Travers
#44. It isn't for the faint of heart, nor is it ever to be taken lightly. Real love is heartcore.
Jeff Brown
#45. Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.
Cory Booker
#46. We grunt like mutts or faint like bitches; take your pick.
Shawn McBride
#47. Maxim's voice, clear and strong, Will someone take my wife outside?She is going to faint.
Daphne Du Maurier
#48. Helen?' Lucas asked, his voice faint and breathy.
'Make sound. If alive,' he barley managed to say.
Josephine Angelini
#49. Though I am faced with many adversities, my heart will not faint. The Lord is my comfort, my hope and my peace.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#50. She's always busy, too busy, and is always reminding herself of this fact, so that the notion of an empty apartment, even an empty bed, holds no more than faint flush of alarm. And only when she thinks about it ... She'll manage, though. She knows she will.
Carol Shields
#51. O the green things growing, the green things growing,
The faint sweet smell of the green things growing!
I should like to live, whether I smile or grieve,
Just to watch the happy life of my green things growing.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#53. Yeah, why tell the public the truth? said Harry, clenching his knife so tightly that the faint scars on the back of his right hand stood out, white against his skin: I must not tell lies.
J.K. Rowling
#54. Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my soul with perfect day!
John Arbuthnot
#55. Faint heart never won fair lady as the Good Book says.
L.M. Montgomery
#56. Crokus jumped at a faint plopping sound from the stairwell. He laid his hands on his knives, tensing.
Steven Erikson
#57. Something rippled round the table: a loosening, a settling, a long sigh too low to hear. Un ange passe, my French grandfather would have said: an angel is passing. Somewhere upstairs I heard the faint, dreamy note of a clock striking.
Tana French
#58. Lord, it is my chief complaint, That my love is weak and faint; Yet I love thee and adore, Oh for grace to love thee more!
William Cowper
#59. Why couldn't life be like the movies where the women faint when they get overwhelmed?
Charity Parkerson
#60. When we blaze trails, which is what Hulu is about, it takes time. That is not for the faint of heart, and we understand that.
Jason Kilar
#61. A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.
Hannah More
#62. And in the distance, so faint I thought I might have imagined it, a beast's roar cleaved the land.
Sarah J. Maas
#63. Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and perish in disappointments; but an hair of my head shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.
William Penn
#64. Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new,
active, and immediate.
Washington Irving
#65. Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange city. You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas.
Woodrow Wilson
#66. If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.
Italo Calvino
#67. I'll tell you who makes me laugh, in a good way, and I'd love to have a date with her: if I could just have a salad with Lady Gaga? This would be my - I would almost probably faint.
Richard Simmons
#68. There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says, forsake not your calling, outrage no institution, use no violence, rend no bonds; the State is thy parent. Its virtue or manhood is wholly filial.
Henry David Thoreau
#69. I didn't faint, I passed out in a manly way," Sespian muttered.
Lindsay Buroker
#70. He went up to the globe and gave it a spin. It emitted a faint creak and moved about one inch, bringing into his purview a daddy long legs which had died on it in latitude 44.
John Galsworthy
#71. An ache stayed inside her. And a faint reverberating hum of something close to joy lived on the outer edges of her memory, some kind of longing that had been answered once and was simply not answered anymore.
Elizabeth Strout
#72. I am the empty sound
that fills the space between two
when neither one
knows what to say.
I am the moment before
the faint,
the all black and soundless fall,
I am the echoless dark
of far off space.
I am the way it never needs sound to shine.
Tyler Knott Gregson
#73. The iron arc of the avoiding journey Curves back upon my weakness at the end; Whether the faint light spark against my face Or in the dark my sight hide from my sight, Centre and circumference are both my weakness.
Stephen Spender
#74. Fainting is for preteen girls and those really weird goats. I do not faint!
Melissa F. Olson
#75. Fearlessness is better than a faint-heart for any man who puts his nose out of doors. The length of my life and the day of my death were fated long ago.
Kevin Crossley-Holland
#76. THE OLD LAB was not used for anything much except detention. But there was still a faint smell of old science clinging to it, from generations of experiments which had gone wrong.
Diana Wynne Jones
#77. He has quite an array of T-shirts. This one is faded gray with faint blue letters spelling out Starfleet Academy. Such a dork. Then again, I know exactly what Starfleet Academy is, so I'm in the same dork boat.
Kristan Higgins
#78. It is true fortitude to stand firm against
All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die
In fear to suffer more calamity.
Philip Massinger
#79. People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#80. Conscience is the accumulated sediment of ancestral faint- heartedness
H.L. Mencken
#81. What is a bow and arrow? It is the beginning of the end. It is the winding path that grows to the roaring road of war. It is a plaything and a weapon and a triumph in human engineering. It is the first faint stirring of an atom bomb.
Clifford D. Simak
#82. The faint hints of color in her complexion, her tawny blond hair, her extraordinary thinness, all spoke of that unearthly grace modern poets find in the medieval statues. Had she been happy, she'd have been ravishing: happiness constitutes pure poetry, for women.
Honore De Balzac
#83. Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not the victory vain. Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.
William Morris
#84. faint heart never won fair lady
Meg Cabot
#85. Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to those men whose inner life is faint.
William E. Woodward
#86. When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about.
Harry Stack Sullivan
#87. He could taste the familiar tang of museum air - an arid, deionized essence that carried a faint hint of carbon - the product of industrial, coal-filter dehumidifiers that ran around the clock to counteract the corrosive carbon dioxide exhaled by visitors.
Dan Brown
#88. Breathe, Newberry. If you faint in the Blacksmith's laboratory, only the stars above know what might be grafted to your body when you wake up.
Meljean Brook
#89. I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.
Jude Morgan
#90. Alyssa's mouth went dry at the sight of Chance as he opened the door. His chest was bare, with faint droplets of water covering the tattooed bundle of hotness known as her friend.
Shyloh Morgan
#91. When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.
Ray Bradbury
#92. There was a faint, amused smile on Gansey's face that meant he knew they were lying. It was a strangely wise expression; once again Blue got the sense that he seemed older than the boys he'd brought with him.
Maggie Stiefvater
#93. Edward in the sunlight was shocking. I couldn't get used to it, though I'd been staring at him all afternoon. His skin, white despite the faint flush from yesterday's hunting trip, literally sparkled, like thousands of tiny diamonds were embedded in the surface.
Stephenie Meyer
#94. The inhabitants of earth behold commonly but the dark and shadowy under side of heaven's pavement; it is only when seen at a favorable angle in the horizon, morning or evening, that some faint streaks of the rich lining of the clouds are revealed.
Henry David Thoreau
#95. [S]ometimes in writing of myself ... I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure, an antic sound.
E.B. White
#96. Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew faint, the hint of a whisper. 'In the end pride is the only evil, the root of all sins.'
'Pride is all I have.
Mark Lawrence
#97. The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; His understanding is unsearchable.
LaNina King
#98. A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die.
Joseph Addison
