Quotes about Withering

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.

The bulrushes by the Nile, by the mouth of the river, and all the fields sown along the Nile, will wither, blow away, and be no more.

The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.

The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.

Thus the Lord, by pain, sickness, and disappointments, by breaking our cisterns and withering our gourds—weakens our attachment to this world, and makes the thought of leaving it, more easy and more desirable.