“Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.”
“loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.”
“Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly into the mist. And all that remains is a desert.”
“It's better to burn out than to fade away.”
“Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.”
“He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard, like old aristocrats, fading away; antique relics of times gone by.”