Quotes About Decay

There was nowhere to sit except the bunk, which was covered with rotting food, and a wooden stool, upon which sat a large fur-covered lump—an old cheese, perhaps, or a dead cat.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.

The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.

This is life's ultimate cruelty. It offers us a taste of youth and vitality, and then it makes us witness our own decay.

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

An overripe banana, yellow outside, squishy in

Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

Facerea primului om a fost semnul dec?derii totale ?i absolute a cerului.

I knew it was coming. I knew they didn't have the nerve. Three days in and they've got faces like vexed tomatoes, their skins flaking sci-fi style: burnt to fuck. They were an embarrassment; not only to me and the wife and The Fall fans but to their own generation.

By definition, heaven must be independent of the space-time domain because within its boundaries the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the law of universal decay, does not function. The nature of heaven is entirely different from that of an alien beam-ship or any extraterrestrial planet subject to the laws of death and decay.

her lipstick was formaldehyde amber.

Repeated and prolonged proximity to moribund logging communities set off my misanthropy.

By the late 1940s, then, city planners based their work on several key assumptions. Decentralization was the source of urban disruption and decay. They would have to slow or reverse the process while the remainder of the city, especially the central business district, was rebuilt. Freeway construction, at whatever scale, was the play a role in the redevelopment and recentralizing process.

With its architectural grandeur, Senator Gore said, our capital would someday "make wonderful ruins.

Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness.

It seemed to me that transhumanism was an expression of the profound human longing to transcend the confusion and desire and impotence and sickness of the body, cowering in the darkening shadow of its own decay. This longing had historically been the domain of religion, and was now the increasingly fertile terrain of technology.

Wraiths see death in everything. They do not see things in the physical world as they appear, but as they someday will be. A person about to die might appear cadaverous, with hollow eyes and jaundiced skin; a car destined to crash will appear dented in advance. Much of the world seems decayed, a near collapse. Billboards are tattered, roads are potholed, pain is peeling, metal is rusting, buildings are crumpling. To the Restless, much of the world is already dead.

I grow into my death. My life is small and getting smaller. The world is green. Nothing is all.

There is no architecture in New Orleans, except in the cemeteries.

My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off.

Isn't it funny to think that this magnificent piece of matter is in a state of decay? Really, can you think of any other living thing that looks this glorious as it's dying?

The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.

Life would be a great deal easier if dead things had the decency to remain dead.