Decay Quotes

437 quotes by 348 authors

Progress, this great heresy of decay. — Charles Baudelaire
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. — Joseph Addison
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
Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. — Ambrose Bierce
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. — Theodor Adorno
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. — Robert Browning
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay. — Amos Bronson Alcott
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
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
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
The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
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
Without adventure civilization is in full decay. — Alfred North Whitehead
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
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
If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. — Ezra Pound
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
Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay. — George Meredith
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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