Decay Quote by Lao Tzu

There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot…

— Margaret Deland

“For as long as space endures And for as long as living beings remain, Until then may I too abide To dispel the misery of the world.”

— Shantideva

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.

— Sappho

True love isn't the kind that endures through long years of absence, but the kind that endures through long years of propinquity.

— Helen Rowland

When love and hate have exhausted the soul, the body seldom endures for long.

— Anonymous

“He who knows he has enough is rich. Perseverance is a sign of will power. He who stays where he is endures. To die…

— Lao Tzu

The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while the average…

— George Orwell

The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sweet death, small son, our instrument Of immortality, Your cries and hungers document Our bodily decay.

— Donald Hall

“However grand and high, would all decay.”

— Lao Tzu

All my life I still have found, and I will forget it never; Every sorrow hath its bound, and no cross endures forever.

— Paul Gerhardt

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

— Walt Whitman