Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body. — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
Gary is a really impoverished town; it's in industrial decay. There's low employment and things of that nature. — Freddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
It is a universal principle that whenever one refuses to use his God-given powers, these powers decay and perish. — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Things exalted then decay. This is going against the Way. What goes against the Way meets an early end. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Death was in every sell of his body. He gave off a faint, greenish steam of decay. Lee imagined he would glow… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The familiarities of the gaming-table contribute very much to the decay of politeness ... The pouts and quarrels that naturally arise from… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A nation that encourages its people to spend more and save less promotes economic backwardness, social decay and its own financial doom. — Kurt Richebacher Copy Share Image
Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world,… — Frederick Lenz 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
“Decline is also a form of voluptuousness, just like growth. Autumn is just as sensual as springtime. There is as much greatness… — Iwan Goll Copy Share Image
Get up, and set your shoulder to the wheel - How long is this life for? As you have come into this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
At this very moment,... the most frightful horrors are taking place in every corner of the world. People are being crushed, slashed,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that… — David Hume 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
One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with… — Sylvia Townsend Warner 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
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
The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
No longer mourn for me when I am dead than you shall hear the surly sullen bell give warning to the world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“They went through the last of the cars and then walked up the track to the locomotive and climbed up to the… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
All our language about the future ... is like a set of signposts pointing into a bright mist ... the New Testament… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
On every thing are traced decay and change. Look! how the shifting seasons slip away. — Isaac McLellan Copy Share Image
This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“There is nothing that doesn't decay. Some things decay more slowly than others, that's all.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death. — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last. — Isaac Rosenberg Copy Share Image
