Quotes About Fading Beauty

#1. 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

#2. 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

#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. Let peace be. Let life be.

Chinelo Okparanta

#5. 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

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

Propertius

#7. Your biography - that is, the experiences that make up your life - becomes your biology.

Caroline Myss

#8. Most people, if you give them a book, they sniff around on it awhile, then try to eat it.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#9. When you are actually powerful, you don't need to be petty.

Jon Stewart

#10. Twelve years after Robin's death, no one knew any more about how he had ended up hanged from a tree in his own yard than they had on the day it happened.

Donna Tartt

#11. When you think about a drill sergeant, a drill sergeant expects you to perform your best, and if you don't, they're going to stay on you until you do.

Jen Lancaster

#12. 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

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

George Peele

#14. The progress of the world will call for the best that all of us have to give.

Mary McLeod Bethune

#15. 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

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

Robert Burns

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. Elders of the Creedish church made celibacy sound as easy as choosing not to play basketball.
Just say no.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Juliette Miller

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

Hayden Carruth

#22. 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

#23. Your muse ain't singin' on your MTV? Can't even see him on your HD TV?

David Mutti Clark

#24. He who has money, lives long: he who has authority, can do no wrong: he who has might, establishes right. Such is history! Ecce historia!

Gottfried Benn

#25. 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

#26. The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.

Larry Dixon