“Our lives are like the wind… or like sounds.
We come into being, resonate with each other…
Then fade away”
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Hayao Miyazaki 34
Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka 1941Related quotes

Remarks by the President and the Vice President on Gun Violence, 2013-01-16, January 16, 2013 http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/01/16/remarks-president-and-vice-president-gun-violence,
2013
Gather Leaves and Grasses, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“Philosophies, like old soldiers, do not die, they merely fade away.”
Pragmatism and the Outlook of Modern Science (1966)

“It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out.”
Playboy interview (1980)
Context: It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. I don't appreciate worship of dead Sid Vicious or of dead James Dean or of dead John Wayne. It's the same thing. Making Sid Vicious a hero, Jim Morrison — it's garbage to me. I worship the people who survive. Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo.