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The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.

source: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David E. Wellbery (1988). “The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella”, p.38, Princeton University Press

topic: Flower, Illusion, Fade Away, Flower Life

As time passes, my story fades away.

- Dave Dravecky

topic: Stories, Time Passes, Fade Away

It's better to burn out, than to fade away.

- Neil Young

topic: Death, Running, Believe, Rock Song, Famous Last Words

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

- Douglas MacArthur

topic: Veterans Day, Military, Soldier, Soldiers At War, Never Fade

But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the stories, we'd just fade away.

- Charles de Lint

topic: People, Stories, Remember, Fade Away

A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.

- Kurt Cobain

topic: Self, Miserable, Highlander, Rock Song, Famous Last Words

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

- Douglas MacArthur

source: 1951 Address to Congress after being relieved of his duty by President Truman, 19 Apr.

topic: Goodbye, Military, Light, Never Fade, Old Soldiers

Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks. Some doors are opened, some roads are blocked. Sundowns are golden, then fade away. And if I never do nothing, I'll get you back someday.

- Tom Petty

source: Song: Walls

topic: Rocks, Doors, Golden, Blocked, Fade Away

There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life.

- Pete Maravich

topic: Basketball, Dedication, Light, Focus On Yourself, Fade Away

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Stars, Life And Love, Sky, Fade Away, Youth And Old Age

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Happy Birthday, Time, Stars, Fade Away, Growing Old

In that undifferentiated reality of the Self there is eternal bliss. All the phantoms of existence fade away.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Yoga, Reality, Self, Fade Away

It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out.

- John Lennon

topic: Love, Life, Happiness, Burn Out, Old Soldiers

I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my memory of the sound.

- Ken Kesey

topic: Memories, Sound, Fade Away

I have no fear; I have nothing to lose. I'd rather burn out than fade away, and I would rather go out in a blaze of glory on my own terms than let anybody dictate anything to me in my career. I had the chance to wrestle The Undertaker [on Smackdown in 2013], and one thing I took away from it was that he looked me in the eye and said, 'Trust your instincts because you've got great instincts.'

- Dean Ambrose

topic: Eye, Careers, Chance, Trust Your Instincts, Burn Out

You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.

- Al Pacino

topic: Thinking, Insecurity, Soldier, Old Soldiers, Fade Away

loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.

- Milan Kundera

topic: Ideas, Empires, Lightness, Fade Away, Unbearable Lightness

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

- Plato

topic: Body, Pleasure, Conversation, Fade Away

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly lies to the bone. Beauty dies and fades away, but ugly holds its own! Create and cultivate Inner Beauty that never fades away but grows and matures with Time!

- Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate

topic: Lying, Inner Beauty, Skins, Never Fade, Skin Deep

What do I do now?” “I don’t know. Fade away, perhaps. Or find another role.

- Neil Gaiman

topic: Fade Away

Determination is like a muscle. If you do not use it regularly, it fades away.

- Lynn Jennings

topic: Determination, Use, Muscles, Fade Away

I have something to say: it's better to burn out, than to fade away.

- Clancy Brown

source: "My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" (song) (1978). The last sentence was quoted by singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain in his suicide note, 8 Apr. 1994. See Richard Cumberland 1

topic: Lovely, Burn Out, Rock Song, Burned Out, Fade Away

I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away.

- Kurt Cobain

source: "Frances Bean Cobain pays tribute to dad Kurt on his birthday" by Andrea Park, www.cbsnews.com. February 20, 2017.

topic: Passion, Remember, Suicide Note, Fade Away

If you have an effect that nobody can replicate, then your phenomenon fades away. So if you want to to have a legacy, then you jolly well better have an effect that replicates.

- Susan Fiske

topic: Legacy, Want, Wells, Fade Away

If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

topic: Motivational, Eye, Faces, Fade Away

If man were never to fade away ... but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.

- Yoshida Kenko

topic: Moving, Men, Forever, Fade Away

He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.

- Lois Lowry

source: Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Disappear, Shoulders, Giver, Fade Away

You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.

- Dick Ebersol

source: "Just how valuable is owning the Olympic Games TV rights?" by Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2011.

topic: Basketball, Football, Games, Fade Away

Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.

- Dorothy West

source: Dorothy West (2009). “The Wedding: A Novel”, p.171, Anchor

topic: Skins, Ugly, Bones, Beauty Fades, Skin Deep

Remember, grab you're future with both hands and mold it into what you want it to be. It's the determined, who create the life they want, while the idle sit by and watch it fade away into nothingness. The future belongs to the exceptional individuals, who can see the light of the future, at the end of the tunnel.

- James D. Watson

topic: Motivational, Tunnels, Light, Fade Away, End Of The Tunnel

Too many people believe they can control their drug of choice. But the drug is almost always in control. If an addict truly wants help, it is available, but it is a rocky path. The monster always calls. Never give an addict money. Clothe them. Feed them. But enabling them is the quickest path to watching them fade away completely. This may seem harsh. But I've watched my own child relapse, after six years sober. I love her. Always. But I can't help her die.

- Ellen Hopkins

topic: Children, Believe, Years, Relapse, Fade Away

Never mind what haters say, ignore them 'til they fade away.

- T.I.

source: Song: Live Your Life

topic: Mind, Fading Away, Fade Away, Rap Song

As cities grow and technology takes over the world, belief and imagination fade away, and so do we.

- Julie Kagawa

source: Julie Kagawa (2013). “The Iron Fey Volume One: The Iron King\The Iron Daughter”, p.187, Harlequin

topic: Technology, Cities, Imagination, Fade Away

It is easy to speak words of love, or to meditate lovingly upon those people with whom you are in harmony. But it is those people who seem most difficult, who may even seem hostile, that need your radiation of love most. Their very hostility is but their soul's cry for loving recognition. When you generate sufficient love to them, the discord will fade away.

- Catherine Ponder

topic: People, Soul, Needs, Fade Away

Any captain can only do his best for the team and for cricket. When you are winning, you are a hero. Lose, and the backslappers fade away.

- Richie Benaud

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Team, Hero, Winning, Fade Away

It's really interesting making films and actually seeing the life that they have in the subsequent years and seeing which ones stand up over time and which ones sort of fade away.

- Guy Pearce

source: "Guy Pearce Talks LOCKOUT and Possible Sequel, PROMETHEUS, LAWLESS, and Untitled Drake Doremus Project". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 9, 2012.

topic: Years, Interesting, Film, Fade Away, Really Interesting

Without the lord to shield you and guide you, you gonna fade away. Jah is your shield and your guide. The wicked man gotta turn aside. No need to fear no wicked guide. Rastafari protect your life!

- Sizzla

source: Source: www.thepier.org

topic: Men, Wicked, Needs, Fade Away, Wicked Man

Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.

- George Jones

topic: Country, Artist, Support, Fade Away, Country Artist

If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.

- Bal Gangadhar Tilak

source: Bal Gangadhar Tilak (2011). “The Arctic Home in the Vedas”, p.15, Arktos

topic: Past, Darkness, Lasts, Fade Away

Glamour is a shooting star, it catches your eye, but fades away, beauty is the sun always brilliant day after day.

- Michael Dolan

topic: Beauty, Stars, Eye, Fade Away, Shooting Star

The most painful love there is, is the love left unshown A love that cannot be expressed, affection left unknown The love that withholds touching,afraid of what it would say And the most painful thing about unexpressed love is.., it never fades away

- Susan Polis Schutz

topic: Love Is, Touching, Affection, Never Fade, Painful Things

Without extended, concentrated prayer, the ministry of the Word withers. And when the ministry of the Word declines, faith (Rom. 10:17; Gal. 3:2, 5) and holiness (John 17:17) decline. Activity may continue, but life and power and fruitfulness fade away. Therefore, whatever opposes prayer opposes the whole work of ministry.

- John Piper

source: John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.75, B&H Publishing Group

topic: Prayer, Ministry, Holiness, Fade Away, Fruitfulness

It really is easy to forget the unpleasant if we simply refuse to recall it. Withdraw only positive thoughts from your memory bank. Let the others fade away. And your confidence, that feeling of being on top of the world, will zoom up-ward. You take a big step forward toward conquering your fear when you refuse to remember negative, self-deprecating thoughts.

- David J. Schwartz

topic: Happiness, Memories, Self, Zoom, Onward And Upward

There are two angels that attend unseen Each one of us, and in great books record Our good and evil deeds. He who writes down The good ones, after every action closes His volume, and ascends with it to God. The other keeps his dreadful day-book open Till sunset, that we may repent; which doing, The record of the action fades away, And leaves a line of white across the page. Now if my act be good, as I believe it, It cannot be recalled. It is already Sealed up in heaven, as a good deed accomplished. The rest is yours.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1856). “Poetical Works by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Illustrated with Upwards of One Hundred and Sixty Engravings on Wood, from Designs by Jane E. Benham, Birket Foster, Etc”, p.388

topic: Book, Believe, Sunset, Fade Away

The fact is that the mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The mind is fattened by new thoughts rising up. Therefore it is foolish to attempt to kill the mind by means of the mind. The only way of doing it is to find its source and hold on to it. The mind will then fade away of its own accord.

- Ramana Maharshi

topic: Mean, Rising Up, Mind, Fade Away

Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits

- Frederick Crews

source: Frederick C. Crews, Frederick Crews (1988). “Skeptical Engagements”, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Phrenology, Reason, Recruit, Fade Away

You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing. And, of course, if the right thing is established wrong things will fade away of their own accord.

- Peace Pilgrim

source: Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.124, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

topic: Positivity, Accord, Right Thing, Fade Away