Americana Quote by Charles Dickens

“There is nothing that doesn't decay. Some things decay more slowly than others, that's all.”

— Orson Scott Card

“However grand and high, would all decay.”

— Lao Tzu

“Like it's all so fragile and could disappear with just the wrong look or the wrong words.”

— Donna Cooner

“But down deeper, something I'd seen as solid-- not perfect, but solid-- was suddenly crumbling. I felt like I was falling to pieces right…

— Sarah Dessen

“Is there anything that will not decay?”

— Eiji Yoshikawa

“Some blows fall too heavy upon those too fragile.”

— George Saunders

“I imagine that's what being full-dead is like. And emptiness vast and absolute.”

— Isaac Marion

“all is shoring up against decay”

— Anonymous

“It's amazing any thing survives.”

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“It is a strange thing that as we empty ourselves, we become more solid people.”

— Simon Parke

“I cannot help vanishing and disappearing and dissolving. It is my foremost trait.”

— Stephen Crane

“It’s funny. From up here, the destruction seems to fade. Almost as if like people, in time, even the world can heal itself.”

— Eloise Dyson