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Definition of Fade

Fade

Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.

To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.

To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.

To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.

To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away.

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Fade Quotations

So remember, it's better to burn out than fade away.
Kurt Cobain

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Norman Vincent Peale

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
James Joyce

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
Douglas MacArthur

And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty.
Douglas MacArthur

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
Douglas MacArthur

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Bertrand Russell

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.
Lee Trevino

It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
Neil Young

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
Charles Lindbergh

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Joseph Addison

I'm not going to just fade out, I know.
Kato Kaelin

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
Marguerite Duras

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.
Stephen Sondheim

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.
Robert Sternberg

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
Anthony Trollope

It's better to burn out, then to fade away.
Tom Petty

Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Yves Saint Laurent

You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out.
Fran Drescher

Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.
Raul Julia

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.
John le Carre

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
Ivan Turgenev

All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.
Thomas Moore

What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade.
Victoria Beckham

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.
Kent McCord

It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.
Hugh Mackay

Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.
Howard Thurman

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Fade Translations

fade in Afrikaans is verbleik
fade in Dutch is vervagen
fade in German is nachlassen
fade in Spanish is marchitarse
fade in Swedish is vissna, blekna, tyna

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