Decay Quote by Laozi

The essence of decay is inactivity.

— Jack LaLanne

All things are subject to decay and change.

— Polybius

The beginning is always so fine!! But decay soon follows. A degeneration into the tired old situation. The rot sets in. This way, there…

— Jhonen Vasquez

All composite things decay. Strive diligently.

— Gautama Buddha

On every thing are traced decay and change. Look! how the shifting seasons slip away.

— Isaac McLellan

What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Things begin, things decay, and you've got to find a way to be okay.

— Jon Brion

Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge…

— Robert Blair

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases…

— Sallust

Without death and decay, how could life go on?

— John Burroughs