Decay Quotes · Page 6

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Character in decay is the theme of the great bulk of superior fiction.”

— H L Mencken

...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.

— Yukio Mishima

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten when their noblest and most enduring works decay?

— Decimius Magnus Ausonius

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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

— Mick Farren

“Nothing remains constant, all things are in a state of advancement or decay.”

— Steven Redhead

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

— Benjamin Disraeli

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

— Samuel Smiles

I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling and a tragic reflection on the moral decay…

— Tina Fey

It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their…

— Gregory Maguire

“...how often the early stages of change of cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting…

— Pat Barker

If there is any other way.To pull you out from the other side.Ill find a way and signed the deal and let…

— Louaiq8

Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his…

— Samuel Johnson

People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which…

— J. C. Ryle

Our thoughts are boundless, though our frames are frail, Our souls immortal, though our limbs decay; Though darken'd in this poor life…

— James Gates Percival

Sweden rejected fluoridation in the 1970s, and in this excellent book these three scientists have confirmed the wisdom of that decision. Our…

— Arvid Carlsson

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

— Aristotle

For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical.…

— Flannery O'Connor

Why should it be thought incredible that the same soul should inhabit in succession an indefinite number of moral bodies? Even during…

— Francis Bowen

“Vast organisations produce a sense of impotence in the individual, leading to a decay of effort. The danger can be averted if…

— Bertrand Russell

The division of the Roman world between the sons of Theodosius marks the final establishment of the empire of the East, which,…

— Edward Gibbon

Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears;…

— William Shakespeare

The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have…

— Swami Vivekananda

Earth is everybodys graveyard. Once you step into its flesh Our being began to decay.

— Louaiq8

I saw all the moral decay you could, beginning at 2 years old. But I also got to see how the other…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

There's a lot to be done; I just see a total moral decay in our society.

— Chuck Norris

Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.

— Karen Thompson Walker

Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.

— Andy Goldsworthy

nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.

— Ellen Glasgow

The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Harmony makes small things grow. Lack of it makes big things decay.”

— Sallust

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

— Anonymous

Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

— Anonymous

Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls.

— Anne Rice

There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in…

— Lord Byron

All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.

— Edmund Spenser