Quotes About Decay

After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst.

Lovely, not only did the truck look like it was on its last leg, it was going to take the environment with it.

It's just amazing how long this country has been going to hell without ever having got there.

As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Some refer to it as a cultural Chernobyl. I think of it as a cultural Stalingrad.

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

Man durfte dem Bild nicht anmerken, daß es nicht mehr in Ordnung war, und man mußte immer noch ein wenig Glanz darauf legen. Je mehr sie selbst an Substanz verlor, desto strahlender, dichter und übermächtiger mußte ihr Bild werden.

Mutantlar insanlar? öldürür, cesedi yerde çürümeye b?rak?p giderler. Yamyamlarsa öldürür ve ölünün etiyle kendi canlar?n? beslerler.

Under the gully you just never know how the stink can drive a man mad. How he can think crazy shit and wicked shit and nasty shit, kill a baby shit or fuck a little girl shit or shit in church shit because the stink so stink all you can think is that the stink must be easing into you like water through a strainer and now you must be stink too. And I just want to wash it off, I just want to wash the whole thing off but the water running through the gully stink too.

Valls permanecía aletargado dentro de su bola de excrementos, pajitas y tierra como la larva subterránea del escarabajo pelotero.

Old willows trailed veils of wet leaves across his path. Moss crawled up the headstones. The place was otherwise deserted.

If I go back home to Wittenberg, I'll lie down in a coffin and give the maggots a fat doctor to eat.

De ce nu mai ai prieteni? - Au muceg?it. Nu remarcasem c? au o dat? de expirare. Trebuie s? fii atent la asta. Prietenii mei au început s? aib? urme de putregai, pete verzi destul de scîrboase. Ceea ce spuneau începea cu-adev?rat s? miroas? r?u...

Pourquoi n'as-tu plus d'amis ? - Ils ont moisi. Je n'avais pas remarqué qu'ils avaient une date de péremption. Il faut faire attention à ça. Mes amis ont commencé à avoir des traces de pourriture, des taches vertes assez dégoûtantes. Ce qu'ils disaient commençait vraiment à sentir mauvais... ("Comment je suis devenu stupide", p210)

In the fall, she knew it was Death who sweetened the apples.

You do realize that you are a termite. You are eating through my soul.

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

I know you have the patience of a rapidly decomposing turd.

The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won't, ultimately, be very appealing. If you are inclined to donate yourself to science, you should not let images of dissection or dismemberment put you off. They are no more or less gruesome, in my opinion, than ordinary decay or the sewing shut of your jaws via your nostrils for a funeral viewing.