Quotes About Decay

time always erodes advantage.

The soul dies like a star – by collapsing in on itself.

Destruction always comes from within. It

This is how great knowledge dies, on bookshelves in plain sight.

Ontare ruina!

If all memories decay, what of them will really ever be left? What is it that's growing from out of the rotting material of old memories? Is every moment of the past simply gone forever? Why can't they be held intact somehow?

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.

This which you see before you is merely the Khat, 'that which decays', the physical body that contained the Khaibit or shadow body which has now dissolved, and the Ka, or 'double'.

Nothing is made by men but makes, in the end, good ruins.

It became clear to me how men die. I saw that it is not so hard. Or easy. It is nothing. One just starts living less and less, being less and less, thinking, feeling and knowing less and less. The rich flow of life dries up, and only a thin thread of uncertain consciousness remains, more and more meager, more and more insignificant. And then nothing happens, there is not anything, there is nothing. And nothing matters—it is all the same.

A odricanje je ubjedljivo, ne postavlja sebi granice ni ciljeve, ni?emu ne teži, ništa ne brani. Teže je nešto braniti nego napadati, jer ono što se ostvaruje neprestano se haba, neprestano se odvaja od zamisli.

I was dying, of course, but then we all are. Every day, in perfect increments.

The city was a paradox, though maybe it had always been one. You could have an excellent life here, even as everything disintegrated.

Some people liked to make everything dirty. Some people liked to ruin everything.

Do not bless all the changes; change must be progressive; if not, we must not call it as change; the correct name is deterioration or decaying! Beware of the changes! Any change which is not progressive is just a rotting!

Old houses are full with memories and that's why they resist to collapse!

Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!

Today's warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future!

Im summer - in spring, even - it is impossible to believe in November. Snow you can picture, picture-postcard style, but the sodden, rotting tangle where the brazen nettles were, the once-secret nest now stark in the bare branches and above all the sheer dead silence of the sky - these things are unimaginable for the rest of the year.

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

I sometimes think about old tombs and weeds That interwreathe among the bones of kings With cold and poisonous berry and black flower: Or ruminate upon the skulls of steeds Frailer than shells and on those luminous wings - The shoulder blades of Princes of fled power, Which now the unrecorded sandstorms grind Into so wraith-like a translucency Of tissue-thin and aqueous bone - A Reverie of Bone

Agora, eu via o meu país como uma dessas baleias que vêm agonizar na praia. A morte nem sucedera e já as facas lhe roubavam pedaços, cada um tentando o mais para si

Each time she applied her lip gloss, she imagined another fleet of brain cells dying a horrible death.

Hovering wasps and bees drilled into the moist nectar oozing from the rotting pears, then flew off and circled in drunken euphoria, wasted in the Garden of Eden.