Fade

Famous quotes containing the word fade:

“A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves—in full bloom or as they fade away.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)

“And when you sigh from kiss to kiss
I hear white Beauty sighing, too,
For hours when all must fade like dew....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Logic and hope fade somewhat by thirty-six, when endings seem more like clear warnings than useful experience.”
—Jane O’Reilly, U.S. feminist and humorist. The Girl I Left Behind, ch. 2 (1980)