Withers Quotes

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers. (Emil Cioran)
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. View quote
George MacDonald
Living in age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch. View quote
J. B. Priestley
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. View quote
Susan Sontag
The state is not "abolished,” it withers away. View quote
Friedrich Engels
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop. View quote
Rudolf Nureyev
The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four -the years turn dry as leaves. View quote
James Salter
Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it renders adventure and friendship difficult; and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death. View quote
André Maurois
Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
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. (PZ Myers)
The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison-air: It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers there. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The gray-green stretch of sandy grass, Indefinitely desolate; A sea of lead, a sky of slate; Already autumn in the air, alas! One stark monotony of stone, The long hotel, acutely white, Against the after-sunset light Withers gray-green, and takes the grass's tone. View quote
Arthur Symons
Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor. View quote
Rosa Luxemburg
Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That's why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith. View quote
John Piper
Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass. View quote
Colin Greenwood
It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive. It has come to a standstill; nothing withers, and fall is not ready to begin. There are no stars yet, just darkness. View quote
Tove Jansson
A woman withers when she is watered only with tears. View quote
Andrzej Majewski
Success to your meetings. Future of this country depends on breaking up the land monopoly-it withers the land, depresses wages, destroys independence, and drives millions into dwellings which poison their strength. Godspeed to every effort to put an end to this oppression. View quote
David Lloyd George
The world grows old, and growing old, withers away. View quote
Torquato Tasso
What has been shown by Machiavelli, who is often (like Nietzsche) congratulated for tearing off hypocritical masks, brutally revealing the truth, and so on, is not that men profess one thing and do another (although no doubt he shows this too) but that when they assume that the two ideals are compatible, or perhaps are even one and the same ideal, and do not allow this assumption to be questioned, they are guilty of bad faith (as the existentialists call it, or of "false consciousness,” to use a Marxist formula) which their actual behavior exhibits. Machiavelli calls the bluff not just of official morality-the hypocrisies of ordinary life-but of one of the foundations of the central Western philosophical tradition, the belief in the ultimate compatibility of all genuine values. His own withers are unwrung. He has made his choice. He seems wholly unworried by, indeed scarcely aware of, parting company with traditional Western morality. (Isaiah Berlin)
I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too. View quote
Adam Levine
Happiness flourishes where there is happiness, and love withers quickly in an atmosphere of constraint and gloom. View quote
André Maurois
One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures. View quote
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Like all truly pure souls she [Chantal] quickly resigned herself to past faults, thought only of how to repair whatever harm they had done. "Of all my daughters, you are certainly the least bothered by scruples of conscience," Abbé Chevance used to say.... Even sin, once the will is detached and no longer nourishes it, withers and dies sterile. It is in the secret of intentions, like in a decomposing humus, in the dark forest of future sins, unpardoned sins, half dead, half living, that new poisons are distilled. View quote
Georges Bernanos