Decay Quotes · Page 8

“I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't?”

— Charles Bukowski

But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.

— Lee Greenwood

Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.

— Urs Fischer

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

— Samuel Johnson

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

— James Norman Hall

A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay.

— Simon Bolivar

Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age.

— Mason Cooley

We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with…

— Max Planck

Let go the past, let go the future, and let go the present (front, back, middle). Crossing to the farther shore of…

— Gautama Buddha

...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of…

— Alberto Moravia

“Change your environment and if the need be, change your company because it goes a long way to create another version for…

— Israelmore Ayivor

The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns…

— Anonymous

I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no…

— Carmen Laforet

I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child…

— Lewis Carroll

Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse…

— George Herbert

What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism --…

— R. D. Laing

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

When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return…

— George Nakashima

Munch writes poetry with color. He has taught himself to see the full potential of color in art His use of color…

— Sigbjørn Obstfelder

There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand,…

— Karl Marx

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

What people love about life is its miraculous beauty; what they hate about death is the loss and decay around it. Yet…

— Stephen Mitchell

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

— George MacDonald

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

— Walter Smith

We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.

— Lucretius

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

— Oliver Goldsmith

By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

— Aristotle

If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Religion decays, the icon remains; a narrative is forgotten, yet its representation still magnetizes.”

— Julian Barnes

Sweet death, small son, our instrument Of immortality, Your cries and hungers document Our bodily decay.

— Donald Hall

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out.

— Anne Sexton

Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

— Henry Miller

Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.

— Albert Einstein

I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.

— Allen Ginsberg

The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay.

— Swami Vivekananda

The beginning is always so fine!! But decay soon follows. A degeneration into the tired old situation. The rot sets in. This…

— Jhonen Vasquez