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Quotes About Wane

My family supported me before any of this crazy notion of moving out to Hollywood and staking my claim. That support has never waned.
~ Octavia Spencer
But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.
~ Hermann Hesse
It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane.
~ Alain de Botton
All this time I have been telling myself that the skills I have to offer continue to be of value. Now I wonder if this is so. It may be that the day of the so-called "gunfighter" is on the wane. That soon it will be little more than the memory of a brief period in time when masters of the handgun ruled the frontier. A living dead man. That is what I have been for some time now.
~ Richard Matheson
Diana would have been surprised by the public's unbelievable response to her death, and even more surprised that ten years later this interest has not waned. But then they don't make them like that very often, do they. --Lord Jeffrey Archer
~ Larry King
Anybody can have a dip in form.
~ Jonathan Agnew
Sorrow like a ceaseless rain Beats upon my heart. People twist and scream in pain,— Dawn will find them still again; This has neither wax nor wane, Neither stop nor start.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Blonde: A word sir, Have you got a cure For freckles? They come out all over In the summer. Mephistopheles: Ah, Summer speckles, Dotted like a tabby cat. Take an extract Of toad-tongue, Boil with frog spawn At dawn, And spread upon your skin When the moon is thin And waning.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.
~ Tony Campolo
Human, all of them, in deference to the waning moon but there was no way any of thm could be mistaken for anything but wolves.
~ Elizabeth Bear
... ancient days of sorrowancient days of pain-heartaches of the pastslowly began to wane ...(from gleaning granules)
~ Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
Over time, passion wanes, differences don't.
~ Amy Tan
The village seemed very old, eaten away at the edge like the moon which had commenced to wane
~ H.P. Lovecraft
The village seemed very old, eaten away at the edge like the moon which had commenced to wane, and Kuranes wondered whether the peaked roofs of the small houses hid sleep or death.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
It's the fate of the lion in winter: all his billions, all his television channels cannot rescue him from the mockery that rains down on the aged lecher, his powers visibly waning.
~ Silvio Berlusconi
Every instinct warned me that from this hour my strength must wane, till dawn came like a fire to burn away my life—unless before dawn I had found rest.
~ Fred Saberhagen
in a whaler wonders soon wane.
~ Herman Melville
The year's in the wane; There is nothing adoring; The night has no eve, And the day has no morning; Cold winter gives warning!
~ Thomas Hood
As the soul wanes, form appears.
~ Charles Bukowski
When the moon wanes, the darkness eats it. Bite by bite.
~ Nora Roberts
The craze for the 'taant er sari,' terracotta pottery or Bengal jewellery will never wane because Bengal portrays unparalleled diversity.
~ Sharmila Tagore
When darkness falls and eyes stay shutA chain of voices opens up.Let wax not wane give breath to death.p.s. Shhh" -Yvonne Woon(Dead Beautiful)
~ Unknown