Decay Quotes
437 quotes by 341 authors
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Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting…
— George Eliot
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The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead on Sunday. Yet it does…
— John Updike
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I am quite confident that the most important part of a human being is not his physical body but his nonphysical essence, which some people…
— Harold S. Kushner
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The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is…
— Aristotle
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Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.
— Lord Chesterfield
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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
— Octave Mirbeau
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If believers decay in their first love, or in some other grace, yet another grace may grow and increase, such as humility, their brokenheartedness; they…
— Richard Sibbes
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If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in grace according to…
— John Owen
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There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Even the weather page is in a state of moral decay. What?s wrong with red, white and blue, USA Today? This rainbow weather map is…
— Stephen Colbert
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and…
— Joseph Addison
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History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been…
— Douglas MacArthur
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With every throb of the climatic pulse which we have felt in Central Asia,, the centre of civilisation has moved this way and that. Each…
— Ellsworth Huntington
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We have been forced to admit for the first time in history not only the possibility of the fact of the growth and decay of…
— Robert Andrews Millikan
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Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements pall with frequent…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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I will now direct the attention of scientists to a previously unnoticed cause which brings about the metamorphosis and decomposition phenomena which are usually called…
— Justus von Liebig
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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you…
— C.S. Lewis
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Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and…
— Charles Kingsley
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Some months ago we discovered that certain light elements emit positrons under the action of alpha particles. Our latest experiments have shown a very striking…
— Frederic Joliot-Curie
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