Decay Quotes

437 Decay quotes by 341 unique authors

...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant. — Yukio Mishima
The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die around us, watch… — Derek Landy
We (Muslims) have no right, in our present misery, to boast of past glories. But we must realise that it was the negligence of the… — Muhammad Asad
I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but… — David Lynch
Death was in every sell of his body. He gave off a faint, greenish steam of decay. Lee imagined he would glow in the dark. — William S. Burroughs
In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have capsized.… — China Mieville
Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads… — H P Lovecraft
Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day. — William Shakespeare
I do not think I exaggerate when I say that some of us put our offering in the plate with a kind of triumphant bounce… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Dementors are among the foulest creatures that walk this earth. They infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair, they drain peace,… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Isnâ€™t it funny to think that this magnificent piece of matter is in a state of decay? Really, can you think of any other living… — Tiffanie DeBartolo
It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the… — Robert Silverberg
Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions:… — Sigmund Freud
But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?" "Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in… — Joan D. Vinge
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… — Flannery O'Connor
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

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