Hugh Laurie

I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.

British Actor

Barack Obama

Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn't matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.

American President

Albert Camus

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

French Philosopher

John Gregory Dunne

No professional athlete likes to admit that he has played too long. There is too much money involved, rarely enough saved, and there is the eternal hope that age has not withered skills.

American Novelist

Henry Miller

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

American Author

J. R. R. Tolkien

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.

English Novelist

Joe Jamail

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.

American Businessman

Gene Roddenberry

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

American Producer

Geert Wilders

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

Dutch Politician

Graham Greene

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

British Novelist

Often used figuratively to describe non-living things losing relevance or fading away.

Not Literal

Adds a sense of sadness or desolation when describing something that's deteriorating.

Emotional Weight

Indicates a gradual decline, not something happening abruptly.

Slow Process

Describes a decrease in someone's emotional strength or wellbeing.

Emotional State

Communicates the impact of stress or pressure on someone's mental state.

Psychological Impact

Can imply a loss of confidence or a feeling of powerlessness.

Loss of Confidence

 civilization-destroying apocalypse caused by events half a globe away will remain a powerful and terrifying vision. Less fictional than we would like to believe. "The winds were withered in the stagnant air, and the clouds perish'd; darkness had no need of aid from them --

The colossal consequences...

 and along with connective tissue, they bind us together, hold us up, and help us move. And whether or not body building is your hobby, muscles need your constant attention because the way you treat them on a daily basis determines whether they will wither or grow.

What makes muscles grow?...

 But if we have no connection whatsoever with the worlds beyond the one we take for granted, then we too run the risk of drying up inside. Our imagination might shrink; our hearts might dwindle, and our humanness might wither if we stay for too long

The politics of fiction...

 this effort you've put forth in childhood is enough." And they're withering now under high rates of anxiety and depression and some of them are wondering, will this life ever turn out to have been worth it?

How to Raise Successful...

 So you look at the other arm, and then you look at it and ... there it is. You know, it's kinda weak. It looks sickly. It's withering and it's dying because we've invested so much in our protective arm.

I love being a police...

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Multiple Husbands PIPE...

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 can be enjoyed by everyone in a world in which our traditional mechanism for slicing up the pie, the work that people do, withers away and perhaps disappears.

3 myths about the future...

 leaves and the withered petals and the waters from your fountain and the wind left and my soul wept and said what have you done with the garden that was

Rediscovering ourselves...

 and the grasses they depend on will soon wither and die most hippos have headed north following their all-important water

Wither