Decay Quotes · Page 7

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

Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.

— George Meredith

“Death and decay do not have the last word. The last word is life.”

— Maria Grace Dateno

Waiting makes wine better; but waiting makes man decay! Don't wait because you have no time! Move fast!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Cocaine decisions that you make today, will mean nothing later on when you get nose decay.

— Frank Zappa

Isn’t it funny to think that this magnificent piece of matter is in a state of decay? Really, can you think of…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“Grace in a decay is like a man pulled off his legs by sickness; if some means be not used to recover…

— William Gurnall

“Growth everywhere neutralizes decay. So long as we keep growing, renewing the mind, constantly reaching out for the new and progressive, the…

— Orison Swett Marden

The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of…

— H. L. Mencken

[Mitt Romney is a] Massachusetts moderate who, in fact, is pretty good at managing the decay." He's "given no evidence in his…

— Newt Gingrich

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

But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet:…

— Leonard Cohen

All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.

— Marcus Aurelius

It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull…

— George Bernard Shaw

E'en Beauty mourns in her decaying bower, That Time upon her angel brow should set His crooked autograph, and mar the jet…

— Isaac McLellan

I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its…

— Clive Barker

When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while…

— George Orwell

Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a…

— Blaise Pascal

Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of…

— Sam Keen

It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the…

— Robert Silverberg

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?

— Madame de Stael

“Bad health is the primary reason for all life. Created by disease, within putrefaction, into decay”

— William Faulkner

The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet…

— Simon Schama

“In this decaying world, these moments with her help keep me sane.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay.

— Karl Popper

Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly.

— Gregory Maguire

“A nation that fails to recognize and appreciate history is destined for decay.”

— Mark Mortensen

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

— Richard Whately

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

— Baron de Montesquieu

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

— Henry W. Kendall

We've allowed our military to decay, and we project weakness on the international stage.

— Rick Scott

I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust

— Vladimir Nabokov

In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the…

— Natsuo Kirino

Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay.

— Peter Wollen

People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

— Eric Hoffer