Fading Splendor Quotes

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

O latest born and loveliest vision far of all Olympus' faded hierarchy.

But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolate!) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed, Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed.

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

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.

A country soon tires of the glories it has wrought.

There comes, even to kings, the time of great weariness. Then the gold of the throne is brass, the silk of the palace becomes drab. The gems in the diadem and upon the fingers of the women sparkle drearily like the ice of white seas; the speech of men is as the empty rattle of a jester's bell and the feel comes of things unreal; even the sun is copper in the sky and the breath of the green ocean is no longer fresh.

The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.

This dream of our youth will fade out as the splendor Fades from the skies when the sun sinks to sleep.