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Decay Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons…
- Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest…
- The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
- An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.
More Decay Quotes
- Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay. — Lord Chesterfield
- Being a creator of a song I get to take all these broken fragments of failure and chaos and weave together something… — Jon Foreman
- All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee. — Marcus Aurelius
- Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. — Joseph Addison
- The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb… — Annie Besant
- All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. — Theodor Adorno
- A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay. — Amos Bronson Alcott
- The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which… — John C. Calhoun