Decay Quotes
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Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.
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By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.
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Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
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I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust
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He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.
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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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For me it's really important that the work here displays an aesthetic of decay along with the sunken boat with the broken ceramic pieces. They form a unity in showing the power of destruction, the beauty of destruction, whether it's from nature - because the boat has sunk - or through other forces. It's really the beauty of decay and death that holds a power here.
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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
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In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.
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Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'
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God is neither manifest nor hidden; He is neither revealed nor unrevealed; there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay.
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... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.
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What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?
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We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.
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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
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[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.
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Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.
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O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?
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...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality--just as though one saw a flower change in a few seconds from a bud to decay and dust.
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Things exalted then decay. This is going against the Way. What goes against the Way meets an early end.
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The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It is for this reason that all the plants are also held to be alive . . .
