Decay Quotes

437 Decay quotes by 341 unique authors

And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer,… — Eldridge Cleaver
The first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland environment. It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust himself to changing… — Jack London
This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay. — H.G. Wells
Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly. — Gregory Maguire
Out of its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate courtesy. Producing… — V.S. Naipaul
No longer mourn for me when I am dead than you shall hear the surly sullen bell give warning to the world that I am… — William Shakespeare
And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains.… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover… — Charlotte Bronte
I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust — Vladimir Nabokov
A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears… — Rabindranath Tagore
Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Your time… — Chief Seattle
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand,… — Edmund Spenser
The flash would prove that proton decay really happens. The flash would mean that the matter of the proton - the solid stuff - had… — Jerry Spinelli
And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And… — Edgar Allan Poe
In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru — Masashi Kishimoto
Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- Men… — Jack Kerouac
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And… — William Shakespeare
In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water. — Natsuo Kirino
Do you realize that there is nothing in our genes that tells us when to die? There are genetic codes that tell us how to… — Jillian Michaels
That's the van? It looks like a rotting banana." This was undeniable - Eric had painted the van a neon shade of yellow, and it… — Cassandra Clare
What more could you want? How about dominion over this 'beautiful place'? Beauty doesn't last. Friends and family decay. Power is the only thing that… — P. C. Cast
India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed… — Shashi Tharoor
Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part… — Carl Jung
I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling and a tragic reflection on the moral decay of our society…unless… — Tina Fey

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