Decay Quotes - Page 2

One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun.

For the first time in my life, I felt that a wave, a justice was sweeping away a deep-seated decay without any indulgence. I dearly wished that it would keep going without hesitation or deviation, in a spirit of purity forever.

Homosexuality is not a civil right. Its rise almost always is accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society and a collapse of its basic cinder block, the family.

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.

My approach to photograph is kept simple, almost routine. All work, good and bad, is documented. I use standard film, a standard lens and no filters. Each work grows, strays, decays-integral parts of a cycle which the photograph shows at its height, marking the moment when the work is most alive. There is an intensity about a work at its peak that I hope is expresses in the image. Process and decay are implicit.

It is a universal principle that whenever one refuses to use his God-given powers, these powers decay and perish.

She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual decay, death, and rebirth; illicit and clashing with the human world.

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce what exists and thus open a path for a new formation of the world.

All things are subject to decay and change.

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

Bond investors are the vampires of the investment world. They love decay, recession - anything that leads to low inflation and the protection of the real value of their loans.

Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

The porcelain rose is not as pretty as the one that decays.

A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay.

Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away.

Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.

Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.

Most youth still hold the same values of their parents…if we do not alter this pattern, if we don’t resocialize, our system will decay.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.

They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.