Decay Quotes

437 Decay quotes by 341 unique authors

Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind of precarious slime,… — Roger Caillois
For me it's really important that the work here displays an aesthetic of decay along with the sunken boat with the broken ceramic pieces. They… — Cai Guo-Qiang
The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won't, ultimately, be very appealing. If you… — Mary Roach
In books I find the dead as if they were alive; in books I foresee things to come; in books warlike affairs are set forth;… — Richard de Bury
Most youth still hold the same values of their parentsâ€¦if we do not alter this pattern, if we donâ€™t resocialize, our system will decay. — John Goodlad
There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy was never lost,… — Julie Powell
There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding stuff. It's like… — Carrie Jones
Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading dead zone of… — Arthur Kroker
The porcelain rose is not as pretty as the one that decays. — Eric G. Wilson
In interviews, the first question I get in America is always: 'What do you do to stay young?' I do nothing. I don't think aging… — Isabella Rossellini
Looking after children can be a subtle way of giving up... They become the whole ones, the well ones, the postponement of happiness, the ones… — Edward St Aubyn
Munch writes poetry with color. He has taught himself to see the full potential of color in art His use of color is above all… — SigbjÃ¸rn Obstfelder
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites… — Carl Sagan
The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled… — Swami Vivekananda
Just as the body has its progress and decadence, so also has the mind, and, therefore, the mind is not the soul, because the soul… — Swami Vivekananda
I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet… — Thomas Merton
And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes [in animal and vegetal substances]; matter assumes new… — Humphry Davy
For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded… — Edmund Spenser
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,- A breath… — Oliver Goldsmith
The decay of old aristocratic prejudices against greedy speculation, the undermining of orthodox Christian faith (which forbids avarice)... the debauching of agriculture to a gross… — Russell Kirk

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