Wither Quotes - page 3

If you don't learn constantly, you don't grow and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh. (Iris Apfel)
Perhaps these experiences of cognitive man are lacking in the emotional dynamic and turbulent passion of aesthetic man; perhaps these experiences are devoid of flashy and externally impressive bursts of ecstasy or stychic enthusiasm. However, they are possessed of a profound depth and a clear penetrating vision. They do not flourish and then wither away like experiences that are only based on a vague, obscure moment of psychic upheaval. View quote
Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Autumn wind rises, white clouds fly. Grass and trees wither; geese go south. View quote
Emperor Wu of Han
I hate singing. I hate dancing. I enjoyed doing 'Cabaret' and 'Assassins,' but I would wither up and die in 'The Music Man.' View quote
Denis O'Hare
Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently. View quote
Jacqueline Carey
When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge. When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine. View quote
Alex Lowe
Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood. View quote
Marquis de Sade
No other fame can be compared with that of Jesus. He has a place in the human heart, that no one who ever lived has in any measure rivaled. No name is pronounced with a tone of such love and veneration. All other laurels wither before His. His are ever kept fresh with tears of gratitude. View quote
William Ellery Channing
Euryalus In death went reeling down, And blood streamed on his handsome length, his neck Collapsing let his head fall on his shoulder- As a bright flower cut by a passing plow Will droop and wither slowly, or a poppy Bow its head upon its tired stalk When overborne by a passing rain. View quote
Virgil
The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
For human tears are lava-drops, That scorch and wither as they flow; Then let them flow for those who live, And not for those who sleep below. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
When the force of desire for the Truth blossoms, selfish desires wither away, just like darkness vanishes before the radiance of the light of dawn. View quote
Adi Shankara
Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
My daddy says that life comes at you fast. We are like blades of grass: We come to prime and in time we wither away. View quote
Alessia Cara
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. View quote
Alexander Herzen
A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with mud collect; weeds settle there, and soon birds have made a nest and are feeding their young among the blossoming water plants. Then the river rises and the earth is washed away. The birds depart, the flowers wither, the branches are dislodged and drift downward; no trace is left of the floating island but a stone submerged by the water; - such is our personality. View quote
Cyril Connolly
The birds depart, the flowers wither, the branches are dislodged and drift downward; no trace is left of the floating island but a stone submerged by the water; - such is our personality. View quote
Cyril Connolly
Reason and happiness are like other flowers -- they wither when plucked. View quote
George Santayana
Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is. View quote
Joseph Wood Krutch
We looked o'er London, where men wither and choke, Roofed in, poor souls, renouncing stars and skies, And lore of woods and wild wind prophecies, Yea, every voice that to their fathers spoke. View quote
Theodore Watts-Dunton
Often, a woman is treated as a fragile flower, which is destined to wither. A man just years give charm. This is a glaring inequality! (Scarlett Johansson)
The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die. View quote
John Steinbeck
News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichs walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off. View quote
Karl Kraus
My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war. View quote
James Fenton
If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die. View quote
Rand Paul