The decay of the late, great country of South Africa is beginning to become apparent. The name of the Transvaal has been… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
I'm trying to photograph an old offshore oil city that is lying in decay in the Caspian Sea, but I've been having… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
Physically, we get older and then we die. Yet spiritually, whether we go backward or forward is a matter not of the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Dementors are among the foulest creatures that walk this earth. They infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
All solitary enjoyments, quickly fall, or become painful, so that, perhaps, no more insufferable misery can be conceived than that which must… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind… — Roger Caillois Copy Share Image
We've allowed our military to decay, and we project weakness on the international stage. — Rick Scott Copy Share Image
We have been forced to admit for the first time in history not only the possibility of the fact of the growth… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay. — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
What people love about life is its miraculous beauty; what they hate about death is the loss and decay around it. Yet… — Stephen Mitchell Copy Share Image
The natural world operates by its own set of rules. The animal world, all the places that are feral and ungovernable, that's… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland environment. It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Does time really exist, time the destroyer? When will it break down the castle into mere fragments? When will this heart which… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I think that every town should have a park, or rather a primitive forest, of five hundred or a thousand acres, either… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
On every thing are traced decay and change. Look! how the shifting seasons slip away. — Isaac McLellan Copy Share Image
I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
