It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole…

Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.

— Plotinus

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

— Alexander Pushkin

What is called Western Civilization is in an advanced state of decomposition, and another Dark Ages will soon be upon us, if, indeed, it…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

While there are practical and sometimes moral reasons for the decomposition of the family, it coincides neither with what most people in society say…

— Robert Neelly Bellah

“Bodies that drown in deep water may never surface.”

— Steven Magee

It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National…

— Charles Dickens

In the primal state before any manifestation, when there was no motion but perfect balance, this Prakriti was indestructible, because decomposition or death comes…

— Swami Vivekananda

Do these fuels result always and necessarily in one way from the decomposition of a pre-existing organic substance? Is it thus with the hydrocarbons…

— Marcellin Berthelot

A life cycle can be imposed on an object. An object can be very energetic and active, and then it has a dying phase…

— Claes Oldenburg

I will now direct the attention of scientists to a previously unnoticed cause which brings about the metamorphosis and decomposition phenomena which are usually…

— Justus von Liebig

We allowed ourselves to become particularly interested in research into the appearance of intermediate products of sugar decomposition during cell-free fermentation.

— Eduard Buchner

Life is the twofold internal movement of composition and decomposition at once general and continuous.

— Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville

The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only…

— Joel Salatin

There are forces in nature called Love and Hate. The force of Love causes elements to be attracted to each other and to be…

— Empedocles

Our bodies are garbage heaps: we collect experience, and from the decomposition of the thrown-out eggshells, spinach leaves, coffee grinds, and old steak bones…

— Natalie Goldberg