Decay Quotes

437 quotes by 341 authors

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
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
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
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
Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay. — Lord Chesterfield
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay. — Octave Mirbeau
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
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
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
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay. — Charles Caleb Colton
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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