Quotes About Fading Flowers

#1. Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?

Daniele Vare

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

Frederick Lenz

#3. You are a beautiful danger. Do not force me to open up. Some books are bound tightly for years for reasons.

Yrsa Daley-Ward

#4. The Players Association has on the table a demand which doesn't recognize the reality of our league's economics today. It's a very excessive and unrealistic demand.

Paul Tagliabue

#5. The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.

Leston Havens

#6. Our inner light, may become less bright for a time, but in its fading, it is re-energizing, and will again awaken from sleep.

Tracey-anne McCartney

#7. All around me darkness gathers,
Fading is the sun that shone,
We must speak of other matters,
You can be me when I'm gone
Flowers gathered in the morning,
Afternoon they blossom on,
Still are withered in the evening,
You can be me when I'm gone.

Neil Gaiman

#8. FYI, car crashes kill way more kids than cancer does. Those crosses you see on the side of the highway, the little white ones hung with fading silk flowers? They're for people my age. ("People who were texting," my dad liked to remind me - because he never wanted to blame Budweiser for anything.)

James Patterson

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

George Peele

#10. People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works.

David McCullough

#11. Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

Ambrose Bierce

#12. Christ wants to lead men by their love, their personal love to Him, and the confidence of His personal love to them.

Horace Bushnell

#13. Your letters are always to me fresher than flowers, without their fading so soon.

Sydney Owenson Morgan

#14. It is quite true that women like courage, and that boldness often goes a long way; but it is questionable whether with high-bred natures a subdued, quiet, and delicate manner does not go still further.

Richard Jefferies

#15. This was a catastrofuck of colossal proportions.

Cora Carmack

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. I thought he knew me better than most ... Then one nigh Jack brought me flowers, a handful of fading daisies he'd picked up at a farm stand, but flowers all the same. That was the end; that was how he ruined everything.

Alice Hoffman

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

Friedrich Schiller