Quotes of: Wither Keyword

We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers.

George Macaulay Trevelyan

Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that's nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it's ignored, it withers.

Michael Douglas

The most tragic strain in human existence lies in the fact that the pleasure which we find in the things of this life, however good that pleasure may be in itself, is always taken away from us. The things for which men strive hardly ever turn out to ...

Heaven

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

George MacDonald

Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.

Colin Greenwood

I hate singing. I hate dancing. I enjoyed doing 'Cabaret' and 'Assassins,' but I would wither up and die in 'The Music Man.'

Denis O'Hare

When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge. When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine.

Alex Lowe

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

James Joyce

Eventually we will all wither and die in the wasteland of logic and science.

The Iron King

I admit," Morgan said with another withering look, "it's no donut.

Turn Coat

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

Mortimer Adler

I need to give affection and love, because without that, I wither. I need to give that love to someone. Without that, I'm rudderless.

Les Dawson

The flower that does not smile at the branches withers.

Bridge to the Soul: Journeys Into the Music and Silence of the Heart

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

J. B. Priestley

Ideas take root at the oddest moments. Some grow into novels, the weaker ones wither and die.

Pippa DaCosta

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

Gene Roddenberry

Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.

Christian Baloga

MOTHER' A flower of our Life's garden, which we don't wanna let it withers ever.

Samar Sudha

…love grown dutiful is love grown old a withered cupid faltering at the bow…

Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel

Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

Père Goriot