Decay Quote by Walter Smith

We live ruins amid ruins.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

At the end of the day, our work is what endures.

— Christopher A. Wray

Our good works are like stones cast into the pool of time; though the stones themselves may disappear, their ripples extend to eternity.

— Heidi

We come from ruins, but we're not ruined,

— Marshall Berman

“We are but a tattered remnant, a small and bastard race who linger on the shoulders of that giant race, a memory that is…

— Ned Hayes

Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and…

— William James

We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.

— William Cowper

All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay...

— John Donne

Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled…

— Sylvia Plath

We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what. . . True…

— William McNamara

There are remains of great and good men, which, like this mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by the survivors, their sayings,…

— Matthew Henry

I don't think we're crumbling as a civilization, but this is not our finest hour, and it's good to be mindful that we're all…

— Mel Gibson