Wither Quotes

We’ve collected the best Wither Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: James Joyce, Denis O’Hare, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Toni Collette, Pythagoras. Use them as an inspiration.

1

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

2

I hate singing. I hate dancing. I enjoyed doing ‘Cabaret‘ and ‘Assassins,’ but I would wither up and die in ‘The Music Man.’

3

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

4

I love working. I love it! It makes me feel awake and alive and appreciative, as does my family, but in a different way. If I was told I couldn’t do it, I think I would wither and die.

5

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.

Pythagoras

6

I need to give affection and love, because without that, I wither. I need to give that love to someone. Without that, I’m rudderless.

7

We’re so conditioned to believe that milk does a body good and that we need enormous amounts of protein or we’ll wither away. Look around, we’re not withering – we’re fat.

8

Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.

9

My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don’t regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects – love, death, war.

10

I left Sudan when I was 25 or 26 years old. If I had stayed, I would never have ended up being an entrepreneur. You can have the qualities, but if you don’t have the environment, you just wither away. It’s like a fish: take it out of water, it will not survive.

11

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.

Joseph Wood Krutch

12

We can still do good for others and do good for ourselves. I would wither and die, truthfully. I need to be somewhere where the light‘s on me.

13

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

Alexander Herzen

14

If you don’t learn constantly, you don’t grow, and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh.

15

I think either Robert Blake wither pulled the trigger or hired someone to do it, but it will be a tough case to prove. I think there’s a very good chance he may take the stand, and that’s what I’m waiting for.

Catherine Crier

16

Many rogue sites exist to make a profit and others are enormously expensive to maintain. If they don’t have the resources to continue stealing intellectual property, they’ll wither away.

17

Why not let the main parties wither? Because I know of no better vehicle than the political party to enable those with common values to come together and reach a position on issues that can then be offered up as a choice of programmes for voters.

18

People and nations wither away without the freedom to question what is presented to them as the truth.

19

Parents who obsess about every detail of child-rearing and orchestrate their children‘s ‘resumes’ may run themselves ragged while their own personal identities and adult relationships wither for lack of care.

Stephanie Coontz

20

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.

J. R. R. Tolkien