Decay Quotes

437 Decay quotes by 341 unique authors

Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay. — Albert Einstein
And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all. — Edgar Allan Poe
As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay,… — Mitch Albom
Autumn teaches us that fruition is also death; that ripeness is a form of decay. The willows, having stood for so long near water, begin… — Gretel Ehrlich
And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because youâ€™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:â€¨ 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:â€¨ Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' â€¨Nothing beside remains.… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchardâ€¦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 washÃ¨d 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

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