Decay Quotes

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

The only jewel which will not decay is knowledge.

But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.

There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.

Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.

There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.

The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions.

Just as the body has its progress and decadence, so also has the mind, and, therefore, the mind is not the soul, because the soul can neither decay nor degenerate.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

....decay and disfavor came together as other parts of the coast were developed, and the canals became weed-clogged ditches breeding mosquitoes, and the hotels were turned into third-rate apartments.

Cocaine decisions that you make today, will mean nothing later on when you get nose decay.

I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.

The beginning is always so fine!! But decay soon follows. A degeneration into the tired old situation. The rot sets in. This way, there is only the beauty of the start!

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Soap, a cleaning product, can be made from decay.

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.

One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.

We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

The woods decay, the woods decay and fall.

Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.

Mutability is written upon all things.

By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

That's the van? It looks like a rotting banana." This was undeniable - Eric had painted the van a neon shade of yellow, and it was blotched with dings and rust like splotches of decay.

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

Sweet death, small son, our instrument Of immortality, Your cries and hungers document Our bodily decay.

Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

I sorrow that all fair things must decay.

And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.

Autumn teaches us that fruition is also death; that ripeness is a form of decay. The willows, having stood for so long near water, begin to rust. Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.

So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.

All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.

An urban novelist never minds a little decay.