Faded – Quotes

I would have invited

I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded. Erma Bombeck

Mine Enemy is growing old — I have at last Revenge — The Palate of the Hate departs — If any would avenge Let him be quick — the Viand flits — It is a faded Meat — Anger as soon as fed is dead — ‘Tis starving makes it fat Emily Dickinson

There was hell in

There was hell in her eyes! She was worn and jaded Her soul is at war with the life she has led. As I looked on that face so strangely faded I wonder God did not strike me dead. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I could not bear

I could not bear the deep freeze settling around my bones at the thought that yet another attempt to get out of my life alive would end in disappointment. Time became palpable and viscous. Every minute, every second, every nanosecond, wrapped around my spine so that my nerves tightened and ached. I faded into abstraction. … Read more

She snatched at the

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

The crucified but risen

The crucified but risen Jesus appears in the believing, assembled community of the church. That this sense of the risen, living Jesus has faded in many [churches] can be basically blamed on the fact that our churches are insufficiently ‘communities’ of God. Where the church of Jesus Christ lives, and lives a liberating life in … Read more

I am as one

I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded. Edward George, Baron George

I think global warming

I think global warming is a very real problem for our world. I’ve seen the changes that have taken place in the Antarctic, in the Himalayas, where the natural ice has sort of faded away, and there’s no doubt in my mind that we’re living in a strange world, a world which is not easy … Read more

And even this heart

And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like their dancing shoes. Edgar Degas

And you\’re sorry that

And you’re sorry that the ephemeral beauty has faded so rapidly, so irretrievably, that it flashed so deceptively and pointlessly before your eyes – you’re sorry, for you didn’t even have time to fall in love. Fyodor Dostoevsky