Top 100 Faint Quotes

#1. Don't be embarrassed,' she said, throwing an armful of clothing on the hook. 'I don't faint at the sight of a naked man. Triss Merigold, a friend, says if you've seen one, you've seen them all.

Andrzej Sapkowski

Faint Quotes #970
#2. I spent my Saturday nights in New York, because those gleaming, dazzling parties of his were with me so vividly that I could still hear the music and the laughter, faint and incessant, from his garden, and the cars going up and down his drive.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Faint Quotes #1393
#3. In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he smiles at me, just a glancing, faint thing before he turns back to Tommy. I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.

Maggie Stiefvater

Faint Quotes #3034
#4. A little light in the dark night
A faint voice is calling you
This way! This way!
This flickering, wavering little voice
Like dew, like a bonfire
The voice of insects
the sound of the water
You can never lose them
once you've heard them ...

Natsumi Mukai

Faint Quotes #3881
#5. Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.

Harlan Coben

Faint Quotes #7306
#6. Humanity is a very interesting phenomenon. If you peel back the layers, if you're brave enough, you realize it's something that's not for the faint of heart-" Angel M.B. Chadwick

Angel M.B. Chadwick

Faint Quotes #8036
#7. How does Love speak? In the faint flush upon the telltale cheek, And in the pallor that succeeds it; by The quivering lid of an averted eye
The smile that proves the parent to a sigh Thus doth Love speak.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Faint Quotes #12942
#8. Given as much law as that man will be able to do anything and go anywhere, an the only trace of pessimism left in the human prospect today is a faint flavour that one was born so soon.

H.G.Wells

Faint Quotes #17971
#9. My room was in one of those turrets and at night I could hear the sea and the faint rustle of eelgrass in the soft wind. The weather was perfect that summer. No storms. Blue skies and just the right amount of wind every day. The sailors were in heaven.

Katherine Hall Page

Faint Quotes #20266
#10. Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy
of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure; but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.

Arthur C. Clarke

Faint Quotes #21075
#11. In breaking news, the sky. The earth. Life. Existence as an unchanging plain with horizons of birth and death in the faint distance.

Joseph Fink

Faint Quotes #26136
#12. When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears, they are faint from want of food.

Sun Tzu

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#13. crimson. A faint blue haze rested on the eastern hill, over which a great, pale, round moon was just floating up like a silver bubble. They were

L.M. Montgomery

Faint Quotes #30093
#14. Although there still lingered in his mind a faint and unperfect recollection of the events of the preceding night; just as the brain retains on waking in the morning the dim and misty outline of a dream.

Alexandre Dumas

Faint Quotes #36078
#15. The mall at Christmastime was not for the faint of heart. I overloaded about thirty yards in.

Jordan Castillo Price

Faint Quotes #36617
#16. Love is not for the faint hearted.

Gabriel Iqbal

Faint Quotes #39029
#17. Prate not to me of suicide, Faint heart in battle, not for pride I say Endure, but that such end denied Makes welcomer yet the death that's to be died.

Stevie Smith

Faint Quotes #40077
#18. To make sure I learned the etiquette of grieving, Granny took me with her to the many funerals she attended. O Death, where is thy sting? Search me. I grew up looking at so many corpses that I still feel a faint touch of surprise whenever I see people move.

Florence King

Faint Quotes #40630
#19. I am going to carry my bed into New York City tonight
complete with dangling sheets and ripped blankets;
I am going to push it across three dark highways
or coast along under 600,000 faint stars.

Gerald Stern

Faint Quotes #53266
#20. Leading a missional church is not for the faint of heart. It takes courage to push yourself beyond your comfort zone and to lead the church beyond it personal limits.

Gary Rohrmayer

Faint Quotes #58606
#21. Michael!" Oliver's voice came faint through the front door. "Something you should see, my boy! Look out your windows!"
"Trap," Shane said instantly, and reached out to grab Michael's arm as he walked by. "Don't, man."
"What's he going to do? Make faces at me?

Rachel Caine

Faint Quotes #58763
#22. Standing in this glittering room with the music in the background and the press and hum of scores of people, the clink of glasses, the faint smells of warmth, champagne, stiff material and sometimes of flowers and perfume,

Anne Perry

Faint Quotes #62342
#23. I swooned the first time I saw Charlo. I actually did. I didn't faint or fall on the floor but my legs went rubbery on me and I giggled. I suddenly knew that I had lungs because they were empty and collapsing.

Roddy Doyle

Faint Quotes #62963
#24. Politics is a rough and tumble business. It's not for the faint-hearted. I've got bruises and cuts from being in the political arena. But by and large, I understand how to navigate the process.

Donna Brazile

Faint Quotes #68875
#25. The threat of war hung on the air like a thick fog and it blinded him until he could see nothing beyond the haze. Even the stars grew faint.

Brian A. McBride

Faint Quotes #70378
#26. The path of love is not for the faint of heart. It is tested and pushed over and over again.

Lisa Bloom

Faint Quotes #78326
#27. (H)ope, be it never so faint, bringeth a gleam into darkness, like a little rushlight that costeth but a groat.

Howard Pyle

Faint Quotes #88891
#28. She's just a little faint," I reassured Mrs. Hammond. "They're blood typing in biology."
She nodded, understanding now. "There's always one."
I stifled a laugh. Trust Bella to be that one.

Stephenie Meyer

Faint Quotes #89562
#29. Nothing could be more lonely and nothing more beautiful than the view at nightfall across the prairies to these huge hill masses, when the lengthening shadows had at last merged into one and the faint after-glow of the red sunset filled the west.

Theodore Roosevelt

Faint Quotes #96884
#30. The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,
faint copies of an invisible archetype.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faint Quotes #103579
#31. All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate.

Nellie Bly

Faint Quotes #104643
#32. Nothing moved on the surface but faint coruscations of starlight, caught like fireflies in a spider's web.

Diana Gabaldon

Faint Quotes #107841
#33. And now if they should break or you should fall, you might faint for a year or two. If that happens, your local system takes over: that's the pack on your back.

Cordwainer Smith

Faint Quotes #112696
#34. I don't want you to think about anyone in your past. No now, not ever again. You deserved a hell of a lot more than any of those bastards gave you."
"If it helps," she said with a faint smile, "I killed most of them.

Elle Kennedy

Faint Quotes #114153
#35. A faint tear wet Meiko's eye, so slight a bit of moisture that it passed unseen by Yasuko. Yet all the anguish of which she never spoke was compressed into that single drop

Fumiko Enchi

Faint Quotes #120185
#36. That rational voice was right to be frightened. There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt a faint, morbid urge to jump.

Stephen King

Faint Quotes #121794
#37. I felt once again the unease of arriving at night in an unknown city
that faint sour panic which seems to cling to a place until one has found oneself a bed.

Laurie Lee

Faint Quotes #141553
#38. Man is a strange being. He always has a feeling somewhere in his heart that whatever the danger he will pull through. It's just like when on a rainy day you imagine the faint rays of the sun shining on a distant hill.

Shusaku Endo

Faint Quotes #144191
#39. God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.

Oswald Chambers

Faint Quotes #147032
#40. The wind sighed through the trees, and the fallen leaves rattled up the deserted walks and around the hubcaps of parked cars. It was a faint and sorrowful sound, and the boy thought that he might be the only one in Boulder awake enough to hear it.

Stephen King

Faint Quotes #149943
#41. The diagnosis of high-frequency deafness cast a faint shadow over his happiness, but their mutual enjoyment of sex was not much affected, the sounds which accompany it being mostly non-verbal and low frequency in wavelength. Inevitably,

David Lodge

Faint Quotes #152719
#42. Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to be alive.

W.G. Sebald

Faint Quotes #158678
#43. If we have been diligent to hide the Word of God in our hearts, and if we continue to labor over that Word, we can be assured that in the time of harvest we will reap a bountiful reward if we faint not. (See Galatians 6:9.)

T.D. Jakes

Faint Quotes #161247
#44. I want everything,' she replied with a faint, wry smile. 'You know, I said that once to a friend of mine, and he told me that the real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it.

Gregory David Roberts

Faint Quotes #163083
#45. He must love me, i thought, amazed. A faint whiff of nausea hit me at seeing pain as proof of love, but it seemed true. Unavoidable.

Katherine Dunn

Faint Quotes #171093
#46. True love is not for the faint-hearted.

Jack Kornfield

Faint Quotes #173146
#47. When a flawlessly dressed woman steps out of an iridescent bubble and wants to know, like NOW if you'd like to become a substitute princess, do you:
a) run
b) faint
c) say yes!

Lindsey Leavitt

Faint Quotes #177991
#48. She saw signs of another village in the distance - she smelled smoke and saw the faint glow of something like civilization. But there was nothing for her there. She had to go get Jack now, and anyway, she was safer out here with the wolves.

Anne Ursu

Faint Quotes #178305
#49. When the smell of her perfume, something that reminded him of faint spicy blossoms and spring, wasn't wreathed in a cloud around him.
Maybe it was magic. Was she one of the creatures from the many Scottish tales his nurse had told him as a child?

Karen Ranney

Faint Quotes #181490
#50. But whether it was a proper shame for what she had done or a shocking shame for her compunctions in sinning, the Bishop was not permitted that afternoon to discover; because when she had got as far as that she was interrupted by being obliged to faint.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

Faint Quotes #181799
#51. O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb and faint of heart, Forget your years to-day and come As children back to childhood's house.

Phoebe Cary

Faint Quotes #185745
#52. The moon now drew a faint light over their path, and, soon after, enabled them to distinguish some towers rising above the tops of the woods.

Ann Radcliffe

Faint Quotes #195759
#53. We may faint and we may sink
Feel the pain and near the brink
But the dark begins to shrink
When you find the one who knows

Jeremy Camp

Faint Quotes #195875
#54. Above me I saw something I did not believe at first. Well above the haze layer of the earth's atmosphere were additonal faint thin bands of blue, sharply etched against the dark sky. They hovered over the earth like a succession of halos.

David G. Simons

Faint Quotes #198585
#55. But then he returned and our life went on. Three days gone. A week. I measured the time in the faint waning of my consciousness of my misery, and wondered if this would one day be enough: simply not to be consciously miserable anymore.

Sue Miller

Faint Quotes #202936
#56. How totally unexpected, he declared, then proceeded to faint from blood loss.

Brandon Sanderson

Faint Quotes #203552
#57. The boat is very close now, its noises filling the air along with the smell of fuel. Mark can see the faint shadow of two people behind the darkened window

James Dashner

Faint Quotes #203999
#58. If you're going to fall for men, or boys, then deal with the fact that you're going to be an outcast. It's not for the faint of heart, it's not for anybody hoping to be liked or respected or accepted or any of that bullshit.

Paul Russell

Faint Quotes #206959
#59. A confidence that glimmered. Though her station was beneath the head thaumaturge, her posture and faint smile seemed to indicate that she didn't much believe herself to be beneath anyone at all. Levana liked her immediately.

Marissa Meyer

Faint Quotes #207751
#60. I'm going to kiss you... until you faint

L.J.Smith

Faint Quotes #207856
#61. He imagined the door to a sad, empty room closing with a faint click, never to be opened again, and that calmed him a little.

Donald Ray Pollock

Faint Quotes #208276
#62. Let us, therefore, not be weary of well-doing; for we shall reap an eternal harvest of comfort, if we faint not.

George Whitefield

Faint Quotes #210083
#63. Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.

James Russell Lowell

Faint Quotes #211374
#64. We rejoice in God since he has taught us that every thing which is true in us, is but a faint expression of what is in him. And thus all our joys become to us the echo of higher joys, and our very life is as a dream of that nobler life, to which we shall awaken when we die.

Henry Ward Beecher

Faint Quotes #214690
#65. Dorian said, "So here we are." "The end of the road," Aelin said with a half smile. "No," Chaol said, his own smile faint, tentative. "The beginning of the next.

Sarah J. Maas

Faint Quotes #221418
#66. So now you be facing me for ideas, eh? What makes you think a simple, brainless woman like myself would have any idea on how to accomplish men's work? Why, I feel faint just trying to think any thought at all. (Cat)

Kinley MacGregor

Faint Quotes #227456
#67. MR. MOUSTAFA
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once know as humanity... He was one of them. What more is there to say?

Wes Anderson

Faint Quotes #229884
#68. The soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,
And placed it by thee on a golden throne,
And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!)
Is by thee only, whom I love alone.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Faint Quotes #230939
#69. My beloved Laura" (said she to me a few Hours before she died) "take warning from my unhappy End ... Beware of fainting-fits ... Beware of swoons, Run mad as often as you chuse; but do not faint - ".

Jane Austen

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#70. Evie " came his faint whisper "I'm going to your mother see ... she's got 'em to leave a back door open ... so I can steal into 'eaven.

Lisa Kleypas

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#71. The Heart of Fairyland is a story," she said, and she felt so warm and light and full of rightness of it that she thought she might faint.

Catherynne M Valente

Faint Quotes #237720
#72. When love congeals It soon reveals The faint aroma of performing seals, The double-crossing of a pair of heels. I wish I were in love again!

Lorenz Hart

Faint Quotes #241162
#73. Our heart chooses for us, or a tiny whisper inside that is too faint for us to hear.

Laurie Viera Rigler

Faint Quotes #246944
#74. Muftis and bishops should be like ripe camembert cheeses - a bit on the nose and not for the faint-hearted, but memorable!

Michael Leunig

Faint Quotes #251132
#75. We are both large and small, strong and weak, formidable and faint, reflecting the image of the divine, and formed from dust.

Rob Bell

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#76. her knees, which looked, in the faint blue light, as though they'd been carved by water from a bar of soap.

Charles D'Ambrosio

Faint Quotes #258462
#77. The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

Nadine Gordimer

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#78. A great believer in precedent,' Della Street said. 'I think if he were ever confronted with a really novel situation he'd faint. He runs to his law books, digs around like a mole and finally comes up with case that's what he calls on all fours and was decided seventy-five or a hundred years ago.

Erle Stanley Gardner

Faint Quotes #264385
#79. Blood has an oder faint but distinct, of conceit and modesty, of courage and cowardice, of charity and greed, of faith and doubt, in short the fragrance of what we might have been and the smell of what we are ...

Dean Koontz

Faint Quotes #264668
#80. What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

Ursula K. Le Guin

Faint Quotes #274226
#81. Where's my white out?"
"Chapter ten is missing!"
"Has anyone seen my socks?"
Linda spun around.
Mistress Yvonne gripped her shoulders. "This is a regular occurrence. No need to get involved."
Faint shouts echoed down the hall. "Leprechauns!

Marlene Simonette

Faint Quotes #285888
#82. The hunting of monsters is not for the faint of heart. Nor is it for those who feel bound by such trivial doctrines as law or national borders.

Tess Gerritsen

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#83. Some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love - why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there ...

Erma Bombeck

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#84. The response is the faint, silent flickering of lights on the ends of the cylinders as, one by one, they propel themselves away, onward and down into the swirling gases below. For

Chris Walley

Faint Quotes #288577
#85. Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men "ought always to pray, and not to faint." How fierce the battle! I know something of the conflict, but I ought not to faint, because I can pray.

G. Campbell Morgan

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#86. I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last night was especially grueling, a teen-age beach musical. I almost collapsed during the singing sequence on surfboard.

John Kennedy Toole

Faint Quotes #291979
#87. The goods of fidelity, for example, are plain and concrete to the man who has not strayed, but they are faint, like mathematical abstractions, to the one who is addicted to other men's wives.

J. Budziszewski

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#88. There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands.

Charles Dickens

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#89. You will learn soon how not to be faint-hearted. A man has got to learn everything
and that's what so many of them youngsters don't understand.

Joseph Conrad

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#90. Send me out into another life
lord because this one is growing faint
I do not think it goes all the way

W.S. Merwin

Faint Quotes #301785
#91. All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

Alberto Giacometti

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#92. feeling faint," she said, setting her basket down on the

A.J. Carton

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#93. We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.

Charles Spurgeon

Faint Quotes #313392
#94. The simple truth is that being a creative artist takes courage; it's not a job for the faint of heart. It takes courage each and every time you put a book or poem or painting before the public, because it is, in fact, enormously revealing.

Terri Windling

Faint Quotes #315894
#95. Adversity or time of trouble is an opportunity to either fall or stand, fail or pass, faint or be strong. The choice is yours.

Ikechukwu Joseph

Faint Quotes #316008
#96. Death was in every sell of his body. He gave off a faint, greenish steam of decay. Lee imagined he would glow in the dark.

William S. Burroughs

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#97. Love is not for the faint of heart.

Terrence Real

Faint Quotes #320948
#98. It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

Marcel Proust

Faint Quotes #321772
#99. He turned and walked across the floor and out. I watched the door close. I listened to his steps going away down the imitation marble corridor. After a while they got faint, then they got silent. I kept on listening anyway.

Raymond Chandler

Faint Quotes #326604
#100. Yet, after all, they were not bad souls; and though he failed so grotesquely, he did his incompetent best.

Isabella L. Bird

Faint Quotes #327459

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