Decay Quotes

437 Decay quotes by 341 unique authors

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down. — Jack Valenti
We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as… — William Henry Hudson
The rise and fall of images of the future precedes or accompanies the rise and fall of cultures. As long as a societyâ€™s image is… — Fred Polak
Sound: always in a state of emergence or decay — David Toop
Sweden rejected fluoridation in the 1970s, and in this excellent book these three scientists have confirmed the wisdom of that decision. Our children have not… — Arvid Carlsson
When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return to the earth.… — George Nakashima
We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces. — Henry W. Kendall
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is… — Arthur C. Clarke
Slumism is the pent-up anger of people living on the outside of affluence. Slumism is decay of structure and deterioration of the human spirit. Slumism… — Hubert H. Humphrey
The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal. — Samuel Johnson
Things exalted then decay. This is going against the Way. What goes against the Way meets an early end. — Laozi
Talk of the imperial decay of your invalid port. Its gracious withdrawal from perfection, keeping a hint of former majesty withal, as it hovers between… — Stephen Potter
But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society. — Lee Greenwood
Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's life needs time… — Diane Setterfield
In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the fleshâ€“ whatever pleasures we know are doomed… — Guillermo del Toro
There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task… — Hector Hugh Munro
An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away. — Samuel Johnson
[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely. — Will Durant
I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds… — Harold Brodkey
Abide with me; fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide; When other helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helpless,… — Henry Francis Lyte

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