Quotes of: Wither Keyword

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

Alexander Herzen

I wither slowly in thine arms; here at the quiet limit of the world, a white hair'd shadow roaming like a dream.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Humans are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

B.R. Ambedkar

When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

The Fellowship of the Ring

I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

If water won't smother the blaze Father, take my tears and bestow them on the fire see if the fires will wither.

No Women in Poetry

Maybe a large, single dose of pain now is better than the slow, burning pain of withering hope.

The Shattered Mountain

Ties to people on the other side of the storm could be severed. Love could bud, then wither and die without a bloom when the storm ended and reality bled back in.

Snowbound

Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.

The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa

I don’t want my love with her to wither like grapes on a vine, so I’ll water it with romance to turn it into wine.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Charles Spurgeon

If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs - rethinking the world isn't an option.

P.Z. Myers

All sorts of creative communities are withering in New York because it's too hard to live here. It's ridiculous how expensive it is.

Susan Choi

Love doesn't go anywhere when you die, you know. The person passes on, the body withers, but love, it survives.

Kindred Spirits

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Anais Nin

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Samuel Rutherford

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Pythagoras

Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is, sadly, true. An unhealthy mother's love is withering.

Anne Lamott

Many rogue sites exist to make a profit and others are enormously expensive to maintain. If they don't have the resources to continue stealing intellectual property, they'll wither away.

Jared Polis