Decay Quotes · Page 9

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

— Eric Hoffer

“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

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

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and…

— Horace

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

Man is a mixed being, made up of a spiritual soul and of a fleshly body; the angels are pure spirits, herein…

— Augustus Hare

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

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

— George Herbert

All is more or less proper to serve as a common measure, in proportion as it is more or less in general…

— Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

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

— Mason Cooley

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

“Possessed of the Tao, he endures long; and to the end of his bodily life, is exempt from all danger of decay.”

— Lao Tzu

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