Decaying Quotes

63 Decaying quotes by 57 unique authors

Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet… — William S. Burroughs
Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patch - decaying,… — Graydon Carter
Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying. — Nikki Giovanni
For five hundred years, Baghdad had been a city of palaces, mosques, libraries and colleges. Its universities and hospitals were the most up-to-date in the… — John Bagot Glubb
The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable signs, not of… — William Henry Chamberlin
A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to see the necessity… — James Hutton
To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept pain - not only accept it, but look for it, live with it,… — George A. Sheehan
Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than… — Raymond Loewy
The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its annihilating act on… — Yiyun Li
Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying. — Alan Arkin
Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the phenomenon.… — Jane Jacobs
Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb? — Faraaz Kazi
For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we… — Thomas Hobbes
What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed… — Socrates
We are born into a realm of constant change. Everything is decaying. We are continually losing all that we come in contact with. Our tendency… — Noah Levine
I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc. — Jeff VanderMeer
I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. I find nature as a whole disturbing.… — Andy Goldsworthy
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
Give me artificial flowers - porcelain and metal glories - neither fading nor decaying, forms unaging. Flowers of the splendid gardens of another place, where… — Constantine Peter Cavafy
For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, and nor is any single thing within it. Stars… — Richard K. Morgan

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