Decay Quotes - Page 3

One thing and one thing alone keeps us from complete decay in this hour - the church, the true Church.

We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.

...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.

The process of transformation consists mostly of decay.

We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.

Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'

Probably the worst thing that has happened in America in my time is the decay of confidence in the courts. No one can be sure any more that in a given case they will uphold the plainest mandate of the Constitution. On the contrary, everyone begins to be more or less convinced in advance that they won't. Judges are chosen not because they know the Constitution and are in favor of it, but precisely because they appear to be against it.

... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.

What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism -- can we do more than reflect the decay around and within us? Can we do more than sing our sad and bitter songs of disillusion and defeat?

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand, there have started into life industrial and scientific forces which no epoch of former human history had ever suspected. On the other hand, there exist symptoms of decay, far surpassing the horrors recorded of the latter times of the Roman empire. In our days everything seems pregnant with its contrary.

Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

All is more or less proper to serve as a common measure, in proportion as it is more or less in general use, of a more similar quality, and more easy to be divided into aliquot parts. All is more or less applicable for the purpose of a general pledge of exchange, in proportion as it is less susceptible of decay or alteration in quantity or quality.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native fruit which for the most part went to the cider mill. But since the temperance reform and the general introduction of grafted fruit, no wild apples, such as I see everywhere in deserted pastures, and where the woods have grown up among them, are set out. I fear that he who walks over these hills a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence!