Decay Quotes

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

Things exalted then decay. This is going against the Way. What goes against the Way meets an early end.

You guard against decay, in general, and stagnation, by moving, by continuing to move.

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

When learning stops, decay sets in.

The day that witnesses the conversion of our ministers into political and philosophical speculators or scientific lecturers, will witness the final decay of clerical weight and influence.

Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.

Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.

I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling, I've felt all its favours and found its decay; Sweet was its blessing, kind its caressing, But now it is fled, fled far, far away.

Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the decay of it.

Every word wants to be taken literally, else it decays into a lie. But one mustn't take any word literally, else the world becomes a madhouse.

For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.

Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.

The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.

Isn’t it funny to think that this magnificent piece of matter is in a state of decay? Really, can you think of any other living thing that looks this glorious as it’s dying?

Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.

Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading dead zone of exhaustion, inertia, and brilliant decay.

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.

Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.

The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of decay but rather a proof of health and vigor.

Coffee, though a useful medicine, if drunk constantly will at length induce a decay of health , and hectic fever.

Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and supersededby elements of lower quality.

Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.

Things begin, things decay, and you've got to find a way to be okay.

All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

I loved my body and did not want it to perish; I loved my soul and did not want it to decay. I have fought to reconcile these two primordial forces.

Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay.

Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay

Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

We've allowed our military to decay, and we project weakness on the international stage.

There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.

This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.

Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both.

The Beautiful chariots of kings wear out, This body too undergoes decay. But the Dhamma of the good does not decay: So the good proclaim along with the good.

Let go the past, let go the future, and let go the present (front, back, middle). Crossing to the farther shore of existence, with mind released everywhere, do not further undergo birth and decay.

It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.

All decays begin in the closet; no heart thrives with out much secret converse with God, and nothing will make amends for the want of it.

Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down in apathetic decay.

Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay.

We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.

God is neither manifest nor hidden; He is neither revealed nor unrevealed; there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay.

Death was in every sell of his body. He gave off a faint, greenish steam of decay. Lee imagined he would glow in the dark.

As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.

All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru

The human body is in constant change the minute we're born. It's in a constant state of decay. We're all like Ford Escorts, just falling apart.

Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.

For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes

Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay.