Decaying Quotes

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We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its… — Henry David Thoreau
I did not get over the loss of my loved ones; rather, I absorbed the loss into my life, like soil receives decaying matter, until… — Gerald Lawson Sittser
The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
According to the law of nature, wherever there is an awakening of a new and stronger life, there it tries to conquer and take the… — Swami Vivekananda
Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth seemed to be rising from… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture. — Vance Havner
Do not bless all the changes; change must be progressive; if not, we must not call it as change; the correct name is deterioration or… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
I know Teddy Kennedy had fun at the Democratic convention when he said that I said that trees and vegetation caused 80 percent of the… — Ronald Reagan
Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen. — Ronald Reagan
In Heaven, our bodies are going to be the same make, but a new model. Our old, decaying, worn-out natural, physical body will go back… — David Berg
Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of… — Vladimir Lenin
In old grimy streets, in isolated and decaying houses, sometimes far from the Vieux Carre, in little used and secluded cemeteries, there still sluggishly circulates… — Clarence John Laughlin
If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the… — Marcus Aurelius
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art… — Ernst Fischer
Republicans and Democrats are obsessed with making sure that illegal aliens are granted citizenship. The American people are not. They're concerned about jobs, the economy,… — Rush Limbaugh
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be… — Mark Twain
he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertipsâ€¦her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? Is it the secret instinct of… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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