Fade Quotes

So remember, it's better to burn out than fade away.
Kurt Cobain

Remember, Away, Burn

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Norman Vincent Peale

Yourself, Mind, Picture

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
Bob Dylan

Away, Gone, Seem

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Important, Self, Done

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
James Joyce

Age, Passion, Full

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Bertrand Russell

Religion, Science, Away

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Health, Soul

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
Douglas MacArthur

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
Charles Lindbergh

Life, Sense, Behind

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Politics, Political, Away

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

God, Career, Him

Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Yves Saint Laurent

Style, Eternal, Fashions

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Joseph Addison

Age, Nature, Sun

Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.
Raul Julia

Peace, Yourself, Everything

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

Music, Sad, Country

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

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.
Robert Sternberg

Passion, Commitment, Develop

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
Marguerite Duras

Words, Night, Alcohol

I mean the flesh, never fade! The flesh never leave the creation, see, because with that divine spirit the flesh cannot fade. If the spirit is weak then the flesh fade, seen?
Peter Tosh

Mean, Cannot, Leave

There is no greater feeling than hanging out with my dogs, or just walking around the land with our horses. My rescue ranch is is where I feel the most at peace and where I'm reminded of the simple things in life and let the chaos of my crazy work life fade away.
Kelly Clarkson

Life, Work, Peace

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.
Jon Meacham

Life, Diet, Hard

Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line.
Ray Lewis

Life, Character, Someone

A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.
Christian Bale

Someone, Him, Try

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.
Stephen Sondheim

Music, Poetry, Live

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
Anthony Trollope

Reading, Enjoyment, Habit

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.
John le Carre

Experience, Wise, Parents

All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.
Thomas Moore

Lost, Made, Sweet

I don't care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program - that emotion will fade.
Phil McGraw

Diet, Care, Start

Voters memories will fade some.
Nate Silver

Memories, Voters

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

Age, Insecurity, Old

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