Fading Beauty Quotes

“She was about forty: In her youth She had been a Beauty; But her charms had been upon that large scale which can but ill sustain the shock of years: However She still possessed some remains of them.”
― Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk

“Her face was plastered with layers of powder and looked like a face of stone. And with her noble profile, she seemed, on the triangular, moss-covered pedestal hidden by her cape, like a crumbling goddess in a park.”
― Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

“She was one of those women who are usually referred to in the past tense, of whom one says: 'She had a certain freshness and bloom about her,' and whose freshness and bloom passed unnoticed even when she still had them.”
― Gabriel Chevallier, Clochemerle

“The first thing fading is your beauty
the least trustworthy is your mind
down here on this earth
nothing's of any worth
in the end
in the end”
― Fabian W. Williges, Far from perfect: songs & poems

“It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over/educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the sillz hope of keeping our place.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Colors are never as bright as they once were.”
― Liane Moriarty, Here One Moment

“The first thing fading is your beauty
the least trustworthy is your mind
down here on this earth
nothing's of any worth—in the end”
― Fabian W. Williges, Far from perfect: songs & poems

“My heart looks better on me than my face.”
― Anthony Liccione