Decay Quotes

437 Decay quotes by 341 unique authors

Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. — Alfred North Whitehead
The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization… — Cyril Connolly
Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death. — Lewis Mumford
For the first time in my life, I felt that a wave, a justice was sweeping away a deep-seated decay without any indulgence. I dearly… — Naguib Mahfouz
Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world.… — Russell Kirk
[Mitt Romney is a] Massachusetts moderate who, in fact, is pretty good at managing the decay." He's "given no evidence in his years in Massachusetts… — Newt Gingrich
Beneath our transient physical bodies, we are made up of intelligent light. One's own body of light, the soul, is the most real part of… — Frederick Lenz
Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has a certain number… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear. — Walter Smith
Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all of… — Sam Keen
Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily… — Bertrand Russell
Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader in human space… — Gene Cernan
Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its… — John Nelson Darby
Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city. — Urs Fischer
Cocaine decisions that you make today, will mean nothing later on when you get nose decay. — Frank Zappa
The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it's under control. — Jethro Tull
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays. — Chinua Achebe
I suppose I am gently cynical about notions of who we think we are, but I certainly don't hate my fellow man. I think my… — Peter Greenaway
All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay... — John Donne

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