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Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.
— Oscar Wilde
we Stoners must be peaceful, unarmed, and open to nonviolence. It's up to us to be the example of how peace is possible. Work for peace, evolve.
— Withered Tree
I grew up listening to Teenage Fanclub and Eugenius. Scottish music cast a huge influence on me.
— Withered Hand
My favourite place is at home with my family. My career is really raising my children. I'm still waiting for clarity on the future.
— Withered Hand
There is a lady dancing on a cracked plate. A withered spider on the carpet. A piano with a full set of yellowed teeth.
— Conchitina Cruz
But there, my friends, songs like trees bear fruit only in their own time and their own way: and sometimes they are withered untimely.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
My heart felt withered, a neglected fruit that would never again sweeten, now that my love was dead.
— Cheryl R Cowtan
The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.
— Jonathan Swift
Hopes have precarious life.They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off
In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness. — George Eliot
She was a diminutive, withered up old woman of sixty, with sharp malignant eyes and a sharp little nose
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Or were they breed who had died from their half-life, caught in the sun, perhaps, or withered by longing?
— Clive Barker
At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.
— Sarah Moore Grimke
If the smooth lines of her face had been made of karma, she'd look like a withered old hag by now.
— R.K. Lilley
The orange blossom would have scarcely withered on the grave', as a poet might have said. But I am not poet. I am only a very conscientious recorder.
— Vladimir Nabokov
The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.
— Napoleon Hill
There were different ways of growing old, perhaps. Some withered first in body, others in mind, yet others in soul.
— Elif Shafak
Dirty, stained, withered, broken things seem beautiful to me.
— Yohji Yamamoto
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
But the petty thought is like a fungus: it crawls and cringes and wants to be nowhere - until the whole body is rotten and withered with little fungi.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
She wept over the vanity of her desires, which had so ardently flown to the blossoming flesh that now had already withered forever.
— Marcel Proust
The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever floored.
— Charles Dickens
Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.
— Francois Fenelon
Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.
— Arthur Golden
There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.
— Auberon Herbert
From a withered tree, a flower blooms
— Gautama Buddha
No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel
— Edwin Arlington Robinson
The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.
— Robert Browning
The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.
— Laurence Sterne
Who gathers the withered rose?
— William Faulkner
Love likes not the falling fruit,Nor the withered tree. — Walter Raleigh
Along the river's summer walk,The withered tufts of asters nod;
And trembles on its arid stalk
the hoar plum of the golden-rod. — John Greenleaf Whittier
The songs I had are withered Or vanished clean. Yet there are bright tracks Where I have been.
— Ivor Gurney
Yellow melon flowers Crawl beneath the withered peach-trees; A date-palm throws its heavy fronds of steel Against the scoured metallic sky.
— John Gould Fletcher
He dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips ... her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In the end, even the stars withered and died.
— Robert Gryn
So taking it, she stood among the dried, withered things and looked in tender regret at them.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
— Mortimer Adler
Go dangle your withered parts over the toilet!' Ignatius screamed savagely.
— John Kennedy Toole
Behold my Love which traveled by Sudden Days. I wash away my withered cold Hands to a Warm Embrace of You, My Eternal Summer!
— Kevin Dellinger
What had happened to our love? Somehow it had faded, or worn out, or simply withered away.
— Carolyn Meyer
Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
— Alexander Pope
Her presence, her fate, her sympathy for me, have power still to extract tears from my withered brain.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
— Graham Greene
Sometimes I belonged to the pure and beautiful race of nomads, and at others to the poor withered breed of hedonists.
— Francoise Sagan
Death, lonely death, Beneath the withered leaves.
— Federico Garcia Lorca
