Decay Quote by Orison Swett Marden

In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have…

— China Mieville

States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.

— Walter Savage Landor

By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never…

— Edmund Burke

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

The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only…

— Aristotle

Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move…

— William Allen White

“They went through the last of the cars and then walked up the track to the locomotive and climbed up to the catwalk. Rust…

— Cormac McCarthy

Cocaine decisions that you make today, will mean nothing later on when you get nose decay.

— Frank Zappa

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…

— Dave Eggers

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

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

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

— Mick Farren