“The flowers anew returning seasons bring!
But beauty faded has no second spring.”
Ambrose Philips (1674–1749) Anglo-Irish poet and politician
Lobbing, The First Pastoral (1709), line 55.
Will Ye Go and Marry Katie? (1764)
“The flowers anew returning seasons bring!
But beauty faded has no second spring.”
Ambrose Philips (1674–1749) Anglo-Irish poet and politician
Lobbing, The First Pastoral (1709), line 55.
“All beauty is sad. For it fades.”
David Gemmell book Legend
Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 16
“Elegance is the only beauty that never fades”
Source: https://totalgirlboss.com/cassea-swim/
Ono no Komachi (825–900) Japanese poet
Source: Helen Craig McCullough's translations, Kokin Wakashū: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry (1985), p. 35
“People Die…
Beauty Fades…
Love Changes…
And You Will Always Be Alone”
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: Night World, No. 3
“Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified