Decay Quotes
437 quotes by 348 authors
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Progress, this great heresy of decay.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
— Joseph Addison
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The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb of the mother,…
— Annie Besant
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Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
— Ambrose Bierce
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All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
— Theodor Adorno
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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
— Robert Browning
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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
— Richard Burton
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The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily…
— John C. Calhoun
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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us…
— Maurice Chevalier
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The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men and nations are…
— Frederick William Robertson
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A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
— Ezra Pound
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Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification.
— James A. Garfield
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Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.
— George Meredith
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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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