“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
“Change your environment and if the need be, change your company because it goes a long way to create another version for… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I loved my body and did not want it to perish; I loved my soul and did not want it to decay.… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
The beginning is always so fine!! But decay soon follows. A degeneration into the tired old situation. The rot sets in. This… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for… — C. S. Lewis 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
We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage,… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected… — Plato Copy Share Image
Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay. — Anonymous 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
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 Copy Share Image
Probably the worst thing that has happened in America in my time is the decay of confidence in the courts. No one… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
