Rust Quotes

178 quotes by 151 authors

The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out… — Tom Robbins
If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face. — Rumi
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. — William Shakespeare
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. — Leonardo da Vinci
The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his mouth, his breath… — Anais Nin
. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a… — Geoffrey Chaucer
The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as… — Henry David Thoreau
Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put… — Douglas Coupland
The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity:… — Allen Ginsberg
Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not… — Ludwig Borne
I've lived to bury my desires and see my dreams corrode with rust now all that's left are fruitless fires that burn my empty heart… — Alexander Pushkin
I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon. — Charles Bukowski
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Autumn teaches us that fruition is also death; that ripeness is a form of decay. The willows, having stood for so long near water, begin… — Gretel Ehrlich
whats here a cup closed in my true loves hand poisin i see hath been his timeless end. oh churl drunk all and left no… — William Shakespeare
And the rest is rust and stardust. — Vladimir Nabokov
If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat.… — Maya Angelou
What the Chronics are - or most of us - are machines with flaws inside that can't be repaired, flaws born in, or flaws beat… — Ken Kesey
If gold rusts, what then can iron do? — Geoffrey Chaucer
Waiting is the rust of the soul. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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