Faint Quotes

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. (Erma Bombeck)
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this. View quote
William Wordsworth
There seemed to be nothing to see no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made. View quote
Willa Cather
Call a truce, then to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors And be merry as the custom of our caste For if faint and forced the laughter, and if sadness follow after, We are richer by one mocking Christmas past. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
Knowledge once gained casts a faint light beyond its own immediate boundaries. View quote
John Tyndall
I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure. View quote
E. B. White
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. View quote
William Blake
The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand. View quote
Nadine Gordimer
The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted. View quote
Vincent D'Onofrio
But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiousity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city. (Evelyn Waugh)
Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities. View quote
Alain de Botton
Formerly, his heart had been as a locked casket with its treasure inside but now the casket was empty, and the lock was broken. Left groping in darkness, with his prop utterly gone, Silas had inevitably a sense, though a dull and half-despairing one, that if any help came to him it must come from without and there was a slight stirring of expectation at the sight of his fellow-men, a faint consciousness of dependence on their goodwill. View quote
George Eliot
It meant nothing to him any longer, only a faint tinge of sadness--and somewhere within him, a drop of pain moving briefly and vanishing, like a raindrop on the glass of a window, its course in the shape of a question mark. View quote
Ayn Rand
A light snow, a snow so faint and small-bodied that it seems nothing more than a manifestation of the cold. View quote
James Salter
Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active, and immediate. View quote
Washington Irving
Slayer of the Winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the Summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not thy victory vain, Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky. View quote
William Morris
A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die. View quote
Joseph Addison
I have a faint idea what it is like to be alive. View quote
William Saroyan
Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to the contemplation of her own substance, as if awakened from deepest sleep, opens those eyes which all possess but few use, and sees in herself a ray of that light which is the true image of the angelic beauty communicated to her, and of which she then communicates a faint shadow to the body. (Baldassare Castiglione)
Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient. View quote
Willa Cather
What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy to become a ghost. Life ebbs. The pulse is too faint. Nothing stirs you. Some people approve of this and call it healing. It is not healing. A dead body feels no pain. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint! View quote
Hannah More