Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Secrets. Everyone has them. The light of day and truth reveal some secrets to be nagging obsessions or habits, while other secrets… — Kenn Bivins Copy Share Image
Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for… — James Russell Lowell 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
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
Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All is more or less proper to serve as a common measure, in proportion as it is more or less in general… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism --… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Once the cells in a biological machine stop working, it can never be started again. It goes into a cascade of decay,… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
Churches may decay and perish; riches may make themselves wings and fly away-but he who builds their happiness on Christ crucified and… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse… — George Herbert 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
A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Being a creator of a song I get to take all these broken fragments of failure and chaos and weave together something… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Bond investors are the vampires of the investment world. They love decay, recession - anything that leads to low inflation and the… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is Enterprise which build and improves the world's possessions...If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When your head is smashing into the concrete you don't have question about whether it's a real sensation. And ultimately, that's what's… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In America, we've spent trillions of dollars overseas while allowing our own infrastructure to fall into total disrepair and decay. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
According to the yoga tradition, fear is the source of disease, decay - physical harm, when we're not thriving. And then finally,… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal...Its tenacious fibers… — John James Ingalls Copy Share Image
…decay and disfavor came together as other parts of the coast were developed, and the canals became weed-clogged ditches breeding mosquitoes, and… — Edward Bunker Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is not a civil right. Its rise almost always is accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and supersededby elements of… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise… — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
“Now then, monks, I exhort you: All fabrications are subject to decay. Bring about completion by being heedful.” Those were the Tathāgata’s… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
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