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Quotes About Faded

I don't like jeans with holes in 'em. I like 'em faded.
~ Liam Gallagher
He was running through mists again. Walls, people, buildings faded. Nothing but dark, swirling mists. But the mists had never been his enemy.
~ Brandon Sanderson
He was tall, at least six-two or six-three, dressed in a pair of faded jeans that molded to long, muscular legs, and a worn denim shirt that stretched over shoulders the width of an axe handle. He was lean, no extra flesh, yet his movements spoke of power and physical strength. Whoever he was, he needed a haircut.
~ Kat Martin
Best followed now is this life, by hurrying, like itself, to a close. Few things remain. He was repulsed in efforts after a pension by certain caprices of law. His scars proved his only medals. He dictated a little book, the record of his fortunes. But long ago it faded out of print--himself out of being--his name out of memory. He died the same day that the oldest oak on his native hills was blown down.
~ Herman Melville
I like SF environments that seem used, and lived in, every day; not just rolled off a props truck. Look around you! Everything is scuffed, scratched, dinged, faded, even rusty.
~ Antony Johnston
You misunderstand me. You always have. I have grieved, and that's faded away. Gone. Now … well, now there's nothing. A vast, unlit cavern. Ashes.
~ Steven Erikson
It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
~ Kara Swisher
there was something indefinably tired and worn-out about Birgit, like a photograph whose edges were missing their crispness.
~ Camilla Lackberg
flashed with silver and faded to a weak white glow
~ Ilona Andrews
I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
~ Iris Murdoch
Faded is my heart.... Faded is my dream....Faded they may seem.... Never I scream!
~ Larissa Qat
Behold how they beckon, those years, long expired, From Heaven, in faded apparel attired
~ Charles Baudelaire
The color has faded out of the sky. It is grey, becoming darker as the world turns herself round a little more. The clouds are long and black and ragged, like the wings of stormbattered dragons.
~ Keri Hulme
Memories have no life. They're just pale reminders of a time that's gone-like faded photographs.
~ Kevin Brooks
He has quite an array of T-shirts. This one is faded gray with faint blue letters spelling out Starfleet Academy. Such a dork. Then again, I know exactly what Starfleet Academy is, so I'm in the same dork boat.
~ Kristan Higgins
That August, when we arrived, the island lay breathless and sun-drugged in a smouldering, peacock-blue sea under a sky that had been faded to a pale powder-blue by the fierce rays of the sun.
~ Gerald Durrell
Ah tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers Save that they did not last?
~ Letitia Landon
All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice. But we live in a world of laws, I said to my poor prisoner, a world of the second best. There is nothing we can do about that. We are fallen creatures. All we can do is uphold the laws, all of us, without allowing the memory of justice to fade.
~ J.M. Coetzee
There was a great jagged hole where they had ripped out the fireplace; the wall around it was crowded with faded graffiti explain who loved who, who was gay and who should fuck off.
~ Tana French
With the wisdom of time and the passing of years, she knew that. She knew, too, that love didn't evaporate. It faded, perhaps, lost its weight like bones left out in the sun, but it didn't go away.
~ Kristin Hannah
She fastened her attention on the taxi window as they drove crosstown. It was one of those last wonderful days in October, when the air is balmy and the faded sun tries to pretend it's spring.
~ Jacqueline Susann
The colors on the river faded, the rain began, and the river began to rise. It was apparent that the sun would soon give up the tremendous struggle it cost her to get to Paris for a few hours every day.
~ James Baldwin
He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.
~ Leo Tolstoy
So entirely had it lost the life and resonance of the human voice, that it affected the senses like a once beautiful colour faded away into a poor weak stain.
~ Charles Dickens