Slow Fading

Famous quotes containing the words slow and/or fading:

“Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts;
Old age is slow in both.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

“Opinion is not worth a rush;
In this altar-piece the knight,
Who grips his long spear so to push
That dragon through the fading light,
Loved the lady; and it’s plain
The half-dead dragon was her thought....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)