Quotes About Decay

The walls were bare wood now, unadorned by the maps and photographs. All that remained was the thumbtacks, which protruded in all directions, tilting like gravestones in a forgotten cemetery.

It was only a matter of time before we started dying.

Strength we think to be a virtue in government, but we do not find our defense against disintegration either in arbitrary or in very great power. Indeed, we are inclined to see in both these the symptoms of an already advanced decay

From the moment the doors of a hospital open for the first time and the first patient is treated, the facility acquires a pulse and begins to develop a personality as unique as any individual's. It fumbles and grows, learning from its mistakes. It stretches and explores, reaching out more and more to the world around it. Its organs decay and need repair or replacement. Its moods - the collective moods of its patients and employees - grow more distinctive.

Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.

Everything she touched either crumbled to dust or dissolved into a powder that gave off spores. The

the odor of something foul and long dead

he saw her as she was—a hideous phantom of the corruption of the ages.

Release is the beginning of the software's true life; everything before that release is gestation. Either systems grow over time, adapting to their changing environment, or they decay until their costs outweigh their benefits and then die.

Peter was struck by the scar's essential nature: it was not a disfigurement, it was a miracle. All the scars ever suffered by anyone in the whole of human history were not suffering but triumph: triumph against decay, triumph against death.

Las relaciones humanas se vuelven progresivamente imposibles, lo cual reduce otro tanto la cantidad de anécdotas de las que se compone una vida. Y poco a poco aparece el rostro de la muerte, en todo su esplendor.

What would it be like when I was fifty, sixty, older? I'd be no more than a jumble of organs in slow decomposition.

Toynbee's idea that civilizations die not by murder but by suicide.

Visas pasules kaps?t?s nesen mirušie cilv?ki savos z?rkos turpin?ja netrauc?ti sadal?ties un pamaz?m p?rv?rsties par ?inde?iem.

Tel est un des principaux inconvénients de l'extrême beauté chez les jeunes filles: seuls les dragueurs expérimentés, cyniques et sans scrupule se sentene à la hauteur; ce sont donc en général les êtres les plus vils qui obtiennent le trésor de leur virginité, et ceci constitue pour elles le premier stade d'une irrémédiable déchéance.

No escuchadas en el aire sus palabras empezaban a pudrirse y apestar, era indiscutible. La palabra, que crea una relación, también puede separar

Los habitantes del Sol lanzan sobre nosotros una mirada impávida: Pertenecemos definitivamente a la Tierra Y allí nos pudriremos, mi amor imposible, Jamás nuestros magullados cuerpos se volverán luz.

Et voilà comment une civilisation meurt… une civilisation meurt juste par lassitude, par dégoût d'elle-même…

Je vois le soir tomber et le monde mourir.

The reeds stood tall and dead: I had the oddest feeling they wanted me gone. The light was failing. I caught a swampy smell of decay. Behind me something rustled and I saw the reeds part for some unseen creature. I thought: No wonder Maud's mad. All her life in a place like this?

Le dolía su país como si le hubiera podrido la sangre. Le dolía afuera y en la médula, en la raíz del pelo, bajo las uñas, entre los dientes.

Los ciudadanos que anhelaban el bien de la patria están lejos; unos piden limosna en casa ajena, otros pudren tierra en fosa común.

One night there lowered into my mind one of those dark, sad, and mournful dreams which I cannot banish from my thoughts.. I dreamed that I was married, that I had a child, that this child died, and that over its body…I said to my wife: "Behold our love! Shortly it will decay: this is the way everything ends.

Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.