Decay Quotes - Page 8

Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through the dim night of this immortal day.

Much if not all we know about the complex mechanism responsible for the development (and stagnation) of productive forces, and for the rise and decay of social organizations, is the result of the analytical work undertaken by Marx and by those whom he inspired.

Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.

Prosperity and abundance in a society depend on a certain type of person: the producer. Societies with few producers stagnate and decay, while nations with a large number of producers vibrantly grow-in wealth, freedom, power, influence and the pursuit of happiness.

If under the pressure of Washington Donald Trump starts dissembling and saying things that aren't true, he'll decay as much as Obama did well on that.

As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.

Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age.

All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru

The familiarities of the gaming-table contribute very much to the decay of politeness ... The pouts and quarrels that naturally arise from disputes must put an end to all complaisance, or even good will towards one another.

The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything which is within her which appears to decay and to grow old and to be useless she changes into herself, and again makes other new things from these very same, so that she requires neither substance from without nor wants a place into which she may cast that which decays. She is content then with her own space, and her own matter, and her own art.

What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?

Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.

What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.

Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.

Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.

All perishes, all decays, all is born again.

A nation that encourages its people to spend more and save less promotes economic backwardness, social decay and its own financial doom.

Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.

Beware of suretyship for thy best friend; he that payeth another man's debt seeketh his own decay.

I masturbate. A lot. And yet, I don't floss because it's too much of a hassle. Ten seconds of joy over a lifetime of tooth decay, that's what I've chosen.

It is Enterprise which build and improves the world's possessions...If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.

All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

We're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of the decay.

All solitary enjoyments, quickly fall, or become painful, so that, perhaps, no more insufferable misery can be conceived than that which must follow incommunicable privileges. Only imagine a human being condemned to perpetual youth while all around him decay and die. O, how sincerely would he call upon death for deliverance!