Decay Quote by Anonymous

Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love…

— Anonymous

“That “these people” were ourselves, that this insistence on mistrust of others—that people who looked so very much like each other, who shared a…

— Jamaica Kincaid

And lending it one mental fillip the more, the fact that all these people were inwardly attacked by well-nigh resistless decay, and that most…

— Thomas Mann

Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their…

— H. G. Wells

“Goodness is adorable, and it is immortal. When it is trodden down into the earth it springs up again, and human beings scrabble in…

— Rebecca West

“But while the residents were shocked by the violence, they were also often surprised by the mundaneness of it all. Discovered the extent of…

— Kiran Desai

They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up…

— Toni Morrison

Hatred also is short lived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the future remains forever unforgotten here…

— Thucydides

So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin…

— Oscar Wilde

“Looking at the turmoil of life from this standpoint we find all occupied with its want and misery, exerting all their strength in order…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.

— George Eliot

Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death.

— Jean de la Bruyere