Growth everywhere neutralizes decay. So long as we keep…

In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have…

— China Mieville

States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.

— Walter Savage Landor

By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never…

— Edmund Burke

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

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

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

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

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

— Mick Farren

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

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

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

— Susan Sontag