Decay Quotes
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We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay.
— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
Throwing up was no big deal. It was a lot less painful than hemorrhoids or tooth decay, and more refined than diarrhea
— Haruki Murakami
All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.
— Immanuel Kant
Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.
— Lord Chesterfield
In the State of Denmark there was the odor of decay ...
— Roger Zelazny
As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.
— William Wordsworth
And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing towards decay.
— George MacDonald
Like memories in cold decay, Transmissions echoing away,
Far from the world of you and I
Where oceans bleed into the sky.. — Linkin Park
This I tell you: decay is inherent in all conditioned things. Work out your own salvation, with diligence.
— Gautama Buddha
Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay.
— Karl Popper
Irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.
— Ellen Glasgow
There' s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away, When the glow of early thought declines in feeling's dull decay. — George Gordon Byron
LIVING MATTER EVADES THE DECAY TO EQUILIBRIUM
— Erwin Schrodinger
The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it's under control.
— Jethro Tull
Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.
— William Butler Yeats
They knew that mere appearance and disappearance are on the surface like waves on the sea, but life which is permanent knows no decay or diminution.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
— Urs Fischer
The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.
— Simon Schama
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[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.
— C.S. Lewis
Sad that our finest aspirationOur freshest dreams and meditations,
In swift succession should decay,
Like Autumn leaves that rot away. — Alexander Pushkin
Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten when their noblest and most enduring works decay?
— Decimius Magnus Ausonius
There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.
— Sarah Josepha Hale
Necessity is what impels men to take action, and once necessity is gone, only rot and decay are left
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Year chases year, decay pursues decay,Still drops some joy from with'ring life away;
New forms arise, and diff'rent views engage — Samuel Johnson
Death, decay, entropy, and destruction are the true suspensions of God's laws; miracles are the early glimpses of restoration.
— Philip Yancey
Cocaine decisions that you make today, will mean nothing later on when you get nose decay.
— Frank Zappa
Must beauty blossom, rooted in decay,And night devour its flaming hues alway? — Clark Ashton Smith
The essence of decay is inactivity.
— Jack LaLanne
Just a tick past fruition sits decay.
— Kristin Kimball
The gray paint peels off the wall in odd and beautiful patterns, each cracked polygon of paint a snowflake of decay.
— John Green
is there anything that will not decay?
— Eiji Yoshikawa
It is by avoiding the rapid decay into the inert state of 'equilibrium' that an organism appears so enigmatic;
— Erwin Schrodinger
What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?
— Madame De Stael
There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.
— Marcus Aurelius
Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
— Gary Oldman
A godly man often grows best when his worldly circumstances decay.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
In her bones, this may still be her country. But she will not touch it with her hands the way I do, trying to lyricize the filth and the decay.
— Gary Shteyngart
It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the progress of decay.
— Thomas Jefferson
The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.
— Henry David Thoreau
The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay.
— Swami Vivekananda
The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.
— Carl Sagan
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
There was an air of decay that enveloped the property as if it had been kissed by dead lips glossed with mildew.
— Keith Minshew
Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
— Samuel Johnson
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
— Octave Mirbeau
You making haste haste on decay ...
— Robinson Jeffers
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
— Oliver Goldsmith
New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people.
— Anne Rice
You must know life to see decay.
— Mumford And Sons
She would lie awake,Every night I'd hear her cry
Her mind in slow decay,
I guess she couldn't take goodbye — Ray Wilson
The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.
— William Johnson Cory
The process of transformation consists mostly of decay.
— Rebecca Solnit
Satisfaction is a treasure which does not decay.Proverb — Idries Shah
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
Every process must by law decay.
— Anthony Doerr
in the bourgeoisie, honored situations decay through too easy relations; one must beware whom one admits;
— Victor Hugo
Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.
— E.F. Schumacher
Surely revival delays because prayer decays.
— Leonard Ravenhill
It's as though a smile is ageless, or perhaps eternal, independent of the decay and collapse of the surrounding features.
— Justin Cartwright
The worst was this: my love was my decay.
— William Shakespeare
The body can decay right in front of you, go from a tool that expresses your will to an anchor dragging you down to hell.
— Daniel Polansky
Progress, this great heresy of decay.
— Charles Baudelaire
He nuclear family from across the street, which, as a result of decay, truly did have 2.5 kids;
— Robin Becker
Here, rancid air hangs heavily in a void, its texture thick, liquid, clinging, in a night full of the hot smells of decay.
— Robert Dunbar
Mutability is written upon all things.
— Antoine Rivarol
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
— Vladimir Lenin
