Decay Quotes

Decay Quote of the day

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.

Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order.

Let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be drawn up in such a manner that it will be permanent and incapable of decay because of its own tenuity.

Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.

Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.

Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.

My way of life Is fall'n into the sear and yellow leaf.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.

I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.

We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'

Gorgeous flowerets in the sunlight shining, Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day, Tremulous leaves, with soft and silver lining, Buds that open only to decay.

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.

Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled black across the sun.

Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.

Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.

The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.

Royalty is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay

All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them.

In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water.

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

Surely revival delays because prayer decays.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

Wealth accumulates, and men decay.

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

The essence of decay is inactivity.

Beta decay was... like a dear old friend. There would always be a special place in my heart reserved especially for it.

The world's decay where the wind's hands have passed, And my head, worn out with love, at rest In my hands, and my hands full of dust.

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.

Homosexuality is not a civil right. Its rise almost always is accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society and a collapse of its basic cinder block, the family.

It is a universal principle that whenever one refuses to use his God-given powers, these powers decay and perish.

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.

Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Behold the grapes and all the fruits that Autumn gives today, As robed in red and gold, she rules, the Empress of Decay!

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

Bond investors are the vampires of the investment world. They love decay, recession - anything that leads to low inflation and the protection of the real value of their loans.

Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

All things are subject to decay and change.

Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.

The porcelain rose is not as pretty as the one that decays.