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Decay Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
- Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply…
- For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction…
More Decay Quotes
- Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay. — Lord Chesterfield
- Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his… — Samuel Johnson
- Being a creator of a song I get to take all these broken fragments of failure and chaos and weave together something… — Jon Foreman
- All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee. — Marcus Aurelius
- No longer mourn for me when I am dead than you shall hear the surly sullen bell give warning to the world… — William Shakespeare
- 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… — Annie Besant
- All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. — Theodor Adorno