Decay Quotes

437 Decay quotes by 341 unique authors

We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay. — Umberto Eco
Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth. — Mitch Albom
With each shimmy, the bugle beads on their scandalously revealing costumes swung and shook. It was the sort of display Evie knew her mother would… — Libba Bray
The real world is simply too terrible to admit. it tells man that he is a small trembling animal who will someday decay and die.… — Ernest Becker
All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay. — Immanuel Kant
The clothes are packed off to Goodwill I said my good-byes up on the hill The house is empty, the furniture sold Soon your smell… — Gayle Forman
When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of… — Octavio Paz
Time is the speed at which the past decays. — David Mitchell
They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried… — Tim O'Brien
For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it,… — Simone de Beauvoir
All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because… — William Johnson Cory
Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last. — Isaac Rosenberg
Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and… — George Bernard Shaw
How much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His… — Joseph Heller
Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. A composition for cheapness… — Josiah Wedgwood
Beware of suretyship for thy best friend; he that payeth another man's debt seeketh his own decay. — Unknown Author
In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and… — Plutarch
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn. — Thomas B. Macaulay
Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of… — James Russell Lowell
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. — Oliver Goldsmith
Connection between life and radioactive nuclei is straightforward. No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity. And we know very well that geothermal energy is… — Garik Israelian
The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. — Wendell Berry
The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me. — Simon Schama
We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay. — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

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