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Fade Quotes

On looks, markets, and things that don't last.

This set of fade quotes ranges from a joke about looks not lasting forever to a market observer describing how fear fades into euphoria before a bubble forms. Compare it with our Fading quotes.

My weight is this permanent topic that just doesn't fade away. Most days, I am fine with people talking about it. That doesn't bother me as much as how people use the fact to promote their own ventures.

Quotes by Adnan Sami

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.

Quotes by Victoria Beckham

We can either build on the greatness of America or we can fade off into history.

Quotes by Tom Graves

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

Quotes by Thomas Moore

Disappear Quotes

Because ALS is underfunded, patients have had no option but to fade away and die. That is not OK.

Quotes by Steve Gleason

Many ALS patients end up fading away quietly and dying. For me, this was not OK. I did not want to fade away quietly.

Quotes by Steve Gleason

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.

Quotes by Stephen Sondheim

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.

Quotes by Roy Jenkins

I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station.

Quotes by Ronald Harwood

Faded Quotes

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

Quotes by Robert Sternberg

Politicians never fade away; they just keep carrying on, you know, their class.

Quotes by Paul Keating

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

Quotes by Neil Young

Figure skaters are usually young and then just fade away. But I'm not a fade-away kind of person.

Quotes by Mirai Nagasu

Regrettably, the Obama administration has chosen to take a lackadaisical approach to religious freedom, and allowed IRFA to fade into the background.

Quotes by Mark Meadows

Fades Quotes

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

Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

Quotes by Leon Edel

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

Quotes by Lee Trevino

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

Quotes by Kent McCord

Indeed, bull markets are fueled by successive waves of prior skeptics finally capitulating as their fears fade. Eventually, fear turns to euphoria, and that's the stuff of bubbles.

Quotes by Kenneth Fisher

Fading Quotes

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

Quotes by Kato Kaelin

Frequently Asked Questions

What does 'fade' mean across these quotes?
It covers a few ideas — looks that don't last, market fear that eventually eases into euphoria, and the choice between a dramatic exit or a slow, quiet decline.
Is there a finance-related quote in this topic?
Yes, one describes how bull markets build as early skeptics let go of their doubts, with fear giving way to overconfidence over time.
What's the difference between burning out and fading away here?
One quote frames burning out as the bolder, faster ending, while fading away is presented as the slower, quieter alternative — two contrasting ways to wind down.
Do any quotes talk about appearance fading?
Yes, one touches on how looks don't last forever, tying physical appearance to the same idea of gradual decline running through the topic.
How is this different from Faded quotes?
This topic covers the ongoing process of fading, while our Faded quotes focus more on the finished state of something that has already faded.

The idea of fading out versus burning out runs through several of these lines, offering two very different endings to the same feeling. Read on with our Disappear and Fades quotes.