«His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.»

«People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.»

«And the days dwindle down To a precious few, September, November - And these few precious days I'd spend with you, These golden days I'd spend with you»

«Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.»

«Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.»

«You call this a relationship? [Maria] Well, it's tedious and the sex is dwindling, so from what I've heard, yes. [Samantha]»

«These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into a wife.»

«All I saw farther, in the last confusion, / Was, that King George slipped into heaven for one; / And when the tumult dwindled to a calm, / I left him practising the hundredth psalm.»

«The mysteries of creation are marvelous. When two persons meet at any time or place, the differences between them are patent. Their forms and manners differ. They differ in their cleverness and intelligence. Their opinions also vary. Without understanding what underlies these differences, the materialist thinker emphasizes the differences. Today, a growing number of intellectuals, ignoring the unity that underlies the diversity, propagate the cult of differences.? The good persons who realize the unity behind the apparent diversity are dwindling in numbers from day to day.? This is highly unfortunate.»