Decay Quotes - Page 9

The first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland environment. It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust himself to changing conditions, the lack of which would have meant swift and terrible death. It marked, further, the decay or going to pieces of his moral nature, a vain thing and a handicap in the ruthless struggle for existence.

Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.

On every thing are traced decay and change. Look! how the shifting seasons slip away.

Change and decay in all around I see.

The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.

There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task of making each other wretched. Hatred seemed to be the one faculty which had survived in undiminished vigor where all else was dropping into ordered and symmetrical decay.

Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly.

The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

All composite things decay. Strive diligently.

Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion.

He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance.

nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.

irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.

absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten when their noblest and most enduring works decay?

Sound: always in a state of emergence or decay

Time is the speed at which the past decays.

He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal, true to your animal instinct' was his motto.

I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, as we too may have been somewhat to blame.

The natural world operates by its own set of rules. The animal world, all the places that are feral and ungovernable, that's where I find a lot of inspiration. There is just as much beauty there, but there is also decay and violence.

I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays.

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes