Decay Quotes

I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays.

I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, as we too may have been somewhat to blame.

He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal, true to your animal instinct' was his motto.

Time is the speed at which the past decays.

Sound: always in a state of emergence or decay

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten when their noblest and most enduring works decay?

absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

In America, we've spent trillions of dollars overseas while allowing our own infrastructure to fall into total disrepair and decay.

The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.

nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.

irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.

'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two words I've never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling.

As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance.

People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world, always spinning.

Beneath our transient physical bodies, we are made up of intelligent light. One's own body of light, the soul, is the most real part of oneself because it lives forever, it doesn't decay and die.

Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion.

When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.

All composite things decay. Strive diligently.

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.

The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.

Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly.

Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree?

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it.

The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal.

The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.

Change and decay in all around I see.

If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?

On every thing are traced decay and change. Look! how the shifting seasons slip away.

Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.

Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.

We're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of the decay.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

Without death and decay, how could life go on?

All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay.

Beware of suretyship for thy best friend; he that payeth another man's debt seeketh his own decay.

Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.

A nation that encourages its people to spend more and save less promotes economic backwardness, social decay and its own financial doom.

All perishes, all decays, all is born again.

Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.

What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.

Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.

Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.

What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?

As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.

Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age.