Decaying Quotes

63 Decaying quotes by 57 unique authors

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 fingertips…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
I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age to see Snow… — Margaret Atwood
To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things.… — William James
Shouts of dismay rose as the red flesh splattered against the table. It was only a tomato, but one would think I was pulping a… — Kim Harrison
The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared… — William Faulkner
You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. — Chuck Palahniuk
She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full… — Joe Hill
My New Year's Eve is always 2 July, the night before my birthday. That's the night I make my resolutions. And this year scares the… — Tracey Emin
So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in… — Robert Herrick
the whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That the decaying estate… — John Owen
Proponents of privatization argued that cities and states needed private capital to fund all the upgrades that our decaying infrastructure so desperately needed. — Bethany McLean

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