Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.

“Does time really exist, time the destroyer? When will it break down the castle into mere fragments? When will this heart which has always…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

— George MacDonald

Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

— Lord Byron

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

— Mick Farren

One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move…

— William Allen White

“They went through the last of the cars and then walked up the track to the locomotive and climbed up to the catwalk. Rust…

— Cormac McCarthy

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

— Frank Zappa

But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the…

— Dave Eggers

No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects;…

— Benjamin Robbins Curtis

I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit…

— Clive Barker

It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land…

— Yasmina Khadra

The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only…

— Aristotle

Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all…

— Sam Keen

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or…

— Susan Sontag