Decay Quotes - Page 4

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions.

There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.

There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.

But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.

The only jewel which will not decay is knowledge.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

Connection between life and radioactive nuclei is straightforward. No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity. And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.

Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

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.

[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.

All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings