Decay Quotes - Page 6

This whole which is visible in different ways in bodies, as far as formation, constitution, appearance, colors and other properties and common qualities, is none other than the diverse face of the same substance a changeable, mobile face, subject to decay, of an immobile, permanent and eternal being.

And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.

I sorrow that all fair things must decay.

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.

Sweet death, small son, our instrument Of immortality, Your cries and hungers document Our bodily decay.

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.

By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

Mutability is written upon all things.

The woods decay, the woods decay and fall.

When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.

It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land of the Pashtuns, where desertification proceeds at a steady, implacable crawl even in the consciences and intellects of men.

When your head is smashing into the concrete you don't have question about whether it's a real sensation. And ultimately, that's what's going to unmake us all - smashing up against the physical reality of death and decay, and being unmade.

There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.

We've allowed our military to decay, and we project weakness on the international stage.

Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay

Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay.

I loved my body and did not want it to perish; I loved my soul and did not want it to decay. I have fought to reconcile these two primordial forces.

The word "salvation" denotes rescue. Rescue? What from? Well, of course, ultimately death. And since it is sin that colludes with the forces of evil and decay, sin leads to death. So we are rescued from sin and death.

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.

All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.

Things begin, things decay, and you've got to find a way to be okay.

Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.