Withering Quotes

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced — true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.

With the withering of the rose, and with each fallen petal, Allah is reminding us that everything here is passing away. He is reminding us that nothing in this world will remain, except for Allah.

the curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.

Women have become so obsessed with not withering, they’ve forgotten that there are infinite ways to be beautiful.

People did change, and a change could be a bloom as well as a withering.

A good character is the best tombstone.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.

However you look at it, in these books “power” tends to be an expression of the essential nature of the person or being whose power it is. On those occasions when we’ve seen Lord Foul act directly, he seems to exert the withering force of pure scorn. IMHO, that’s pretty intense.

Not the swart Pariah in some Indian grove, Lone, lean, and hunted by his brother’s hate, Hath drunk so deep the cup of bitter fate As that poor wretch who cannot, cannot love: He bears a load which nothing can remove, A killing, withering weight.

But earthlier happy is the rose distill’d
Than that which withering on the virgin thorn
Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

Karl Marx predicted the eventual withering away of the state and the ‘dictatorship of the proletariat,’ when the people would rule, which was sheer fantasy because it was sheer fantasy because it was based on grossly erroneous assumptions about human nature, as history would repeatedly demonstrate.

All that is gold does not glitter.

Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

A picture without sky has no glory. This present, unless we see gleaming beyond it the eternal calm of the heavens, above the tossing tree tops with withering leaves, and the smoky chimneys, is a poor thing for our eyes to gaze at, or our hearts to love, or our hands to toil on.

But I wasn’t happy… when I heard you two had assaulted Castle Macindaw with just thirty men,’ [said Halt]. ‘Thirty-three,’ mumbled Horace… The Ranger gave him a withering look. ‘Oh, pardon me… three more men does make a lot of difference.

If there is one abiding theme in the gym, it’s the withering work in the ring. Those not fit do not survive.

Silence kills the soul; it diminishes its possibilities to rise and fly and explore. Silence withers what makes you human. The soul shrinks, until it’s nothing.

PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. A desiccated epigram.

I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.

Well, the news has got around. The Duchess of Keepsake has invited us to a ball, Sir Henry and Lady Withering have invited us to a ball, and Lord and Lady Hangfinger have invited us to… yes, a ball.” “Well, that’s a lot of…” “Don’t you dare, Sam.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is a beauty which God grants when by His grace men are born again. That kind of beauty never vanishes but blooms eternally.

When you finally find the courage to admit you have a problem, that’s when you have some power over it. That’s the first step. Otherwise you’re just withering away, you’re like a burning piece of paper getting smaller and smaller.

National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services

…my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality–just as though one saw a flower change in a few seconds from a bud to decay and dust.

We go in withering July
To ply the hard incessant hoe;
Panting beneath the brazen sky
We sweat and grumble, but we go.

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

I admit,” Morgan said with another withering look, “it’s no donut.

We get forwards in the world not so much by doing services, as receiving them: you take a withering twig, and put it in the ground; and then you water it, because you have planted it.

But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near.

Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.

How slow
This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires,
Like to a stepdame, or a dowager,
Long withering out a young man’s revenue.

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.

There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

She’s pretty.” (It’s amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)