Fades

Famous quotes containing the word fades:

“It is moot whether there be divinities
As I finish this play by Webster:
The street-cars are still running however
And the katharsis fades in the warm water of a yawn.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“But the best I’ve known
Stays here, and changes, breaks, grows old, is blown
About the winds of the world, and fades from brains
Of living men, and dies.”
—Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)

“A man is like a suntan: at first he sticks to a woman, then he fades away.”
—Russian saying, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)