Decay Quote by William Gurnall

Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout…

— Anonymous

Beta decay was... like a dear old friend. There would always be a special place in my heart reserved especially for it.

— Chien-Shiung Wu

Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.

— Alexander Pushkin

“Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don't know what work…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Out of all its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate…

— Anonymous

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

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

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

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

— Mick Farren