The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
You guard against decay, in general, and stagnation, by moving, by continuing to move. — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
You made me throw it all away, my morals left to decay, how many you betray. — Nine Inch Nails Copy Share Image
So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays. — Homer Copy Share Image
When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“This I tell you: decay is inherent in all conditioned things. Work out your own salvation, with diligence.” — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles. — Charles de Secondat Copy Share Image
People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die. — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
I'm trying to photograph an old offshore oil city that is lying in decay in the Caspian Sea, but I've been having… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
The Beautiful chariots of kings wear out, This body too undergoes decay. But the Dhamma of the good does not decay: So… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
Across the land a faint blue veil of mist Seems hung; the woods wear yet arrayment sober Till frost shall make them… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower But 't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up toward heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The rise and fall of images of the future precedes or accompanies the rise and fall of cultures. As long as a… — Fred Polak Copy Share Image
It is reported of that prodigy of parts, Monsieur Pascal, that till the decay of his health had impaired his memory, he… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Suppose we took a thousand negatives... combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
The actions of bad men produce only temporary evil, the actions of good men only temporary good ; and eventually the good… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
“Maybe,' he said hesitantly, 'maybe there is a beast.' The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. 'You, Simon?… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold. New-made friendships, like new wine, Age will mellow and… — Joseph Parry Copy Share Image
To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh,… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
What has soul in it differs from what has not, in that the former displays life. Now this word has more than… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“To say it's the poor quality of the paint under socialism is correct, but it is not enough. To say it's soft-coal… — Slavenka Drakulić Copy Share Image
Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work.… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
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