Decay Quote by Eric G. Wilson Download Open image “The porcelain rose is not as pretty as the one that decays.” — Eric G. Wilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Decay Porcelain Rose
Rose is said to be one of the most beautiful things in the world.But I always find you more beautiful than the rose. — Bibeka Copy Share Image
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Fewer things are lovelier to me than a full-blown rose when it opens up its heart. — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
i shall imagine life is not worth dying,if (and when)roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that every weed's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The beauty of a rose may last for days, yet the beauty of someone special will live on for eternity — Superman Copy Share Image
Loveliest of lovely things are they, On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Creating doesn't make us unhappy, unhappiness makes us creative. To create is to live, and in living, we want only to creat more, to… — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
But the morbidity of sorrow-not cultivated sorrow, but that which comes inevitably-is often a productive sluggishness, a time when the soul slows down, too… — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
American seekers of happiness are in danger of deluding themselves into believing that only one part of the world exists, the part that gladdens… — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
“To desire only happiness in a world undoubtedly tragic is to become inauthentic.” — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
“To be fake in this dreamy universe is to believe in actual authenticity and behave accordingly, and to be in tune with the real… — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me to its savage fancies,… — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Do not perceive through overly judgmental eyes, prone to damnation. If you do, you are constrained to witness nothing but your notion of perfection,… — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Surely some of you have felt the same way that I do. You have turned sullenly from those thousands of glowing, perfect teeth lighting… — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit it on a little chair and say, "You'll have three score years and ten," and take a photograph every minute. "And we'll watch you and photograph you for ten years after you die, then we'll run… — Clive Barker Copy Share
We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust. — Mick Farren Copy Share Image
Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It… — Aristotle Copy Share
It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects;… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the tide of frustration, decay. We’ve reached the end of pure inspiration, and are now somewhere else, something implying routine, or doing something because people expect us to do it, going somewhere each day because we went… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
Cocaine decisions that you make today, will mean nothing later on when you get nose decay. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“They went through the last of the cars and then walked up the track to the locomotive and climbed up to the catwalk. Rust and scaling paint. They pushed into the cab and he blew away the ash from the engineer's seat and put the boy at the controls. The controls were very simple. Little to do but push the… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on. But the old orders should not be moved easily - certainly not at the mere whim or behest of youth. There must be clash and if youth hasn't enough force or fervor to produce the… — William Allen White Copy Share
