It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out.
It is better to burn out then fade away
Don't worry about what the people say. Sometimes they'll praise you. Sometimes they'll condemn you. All these things all fade away. And in the end, Allah takes care of everything. Perfectly.
A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.
Looks fade, don't get too attached.
I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.
It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.
The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.
A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker. . . better to burn out than to fade away.
The hellish instruments of war must be smoked out while there is still peace. The Trade Union Movement must be compelled not to allow their old resolutions to fade in the files.
Because ALS is underfunded, patients have had no option but to fade away and die. That is not OK.
I have something to say: it's better to burn out, than to fade away.
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light.
After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this: A man walking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.
The demonstrators in Ukraine will persevere and succeed, or grow tired, cold and fade.
Your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't.
Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead.
Kylie didn't know which one of the fairies were doing it, or if it was both- she honestly didn't care- but the thousands of tiny pinpricks of panic started to fade. She felt safe and that was all that mattered.
I'd rather die than fade away