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Quotes About Faded

There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.
~ Franz Kafka
I became disenchanted. My first impression, that of finding myself part of a fearless battle, passed. The trepidation at every exam and the joy of passing it with the highest marks had faded. Gone was the pleasure of re-educating my voice, my gestures, my way of dressing and walking, as if I were competing for the prize of best disguise, the mask worn so well that it was almost a face.
~ Elena Ferrante
Bir kalbin var." dedi bir iç çekiÅŸle. "Benimki soldu ve öldü.
~ Anya Seton
Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.
~ Lafcadio Hearn
i sometimes felt as if these marks on my body were a kind of code, which blossomed, then faded, like invisible ink held to a candle. But if they were a code, who held the key to it? I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.
~ Margaret Atwood
grey as a used angel
~ Margaret Atwood
She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.
~ Elizabeth George Speare
faded daily. Sometimes she suffered much pain from the canker
~ Anya Seton
Against a wall a faded blonde woman—an exiled angel, the hints of beauty still lingering on her palewhite face—sits with blackoutlined eyes burning into the bar.
~ John Rechy
Their color slowly faded from out of the flowers; but their scent lingered to honey the air he breathed.
~ EM Forster
Playing heroine was never an aspiration. If I had been particular about it, I would have faded out of the scene long ago.
~ Kovai Sarala
On a ruinous wall I came upon a poster dating from the previous year and announcing that 'six handsome bulls' would be killed in the arena on such and such a date. How forlorn its faded colours looked. Where were the handsome bulls and the handsome bull-fighters now? It appeared that even in Barcelona there were hardly any bullfights nowadays - for some reason all the best matadors were Fascists.
~ George Orwell
So many of the books were faded and unreadable. After all, we're all in the same boat. Memento mori
~ George Orwell
Later on, when I signed with Sony, we wanted to re-release 'Fade' as 'Faded' with a brand new mix and with vocals by Iselin Solheim. I think Iselin was the first person who sung demo vocals for 'Faded.' And it worked out great! The way I got in touch with Iselin was through a guy that I work with in the studio.
~ Alan Walker
memories which some day will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that incumbers them shall have faded out of our minds never again to return.
~ Mark Twain
Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.
~ Stephen King
The echoes had faded, and now the eager silence of the house rose to enfold us like the waters of a well.
~ Jonathan Stroud
Still, over time, optimism about resolving Europe's problems faded.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
Physically, too, he had faded, his features become indistinct, as if a fine sifting of dust had settled uniformly over him.
~ Benjamin Black
Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.
~ bennett arnold iii
She dabbed at her eyes. 'You'd be bored, Henry. An unfinished bottle of champagne found in an old cupboard with all the sparkle gone …' The jaded phrase was worthy of a Haymarket author.
~ Graham Greene
The Anarchists set off World War I with a gunshot in Sarajevo - but they faded away. It wasn't that the police drove them out of business. The ideology had nowhere to go except into permanent negativity.
~ Pete Hamill
For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.
~ James M. Barrie
Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.
~ Mitt Romney