Quotes About Decay

And the archangels were not who they should be, and bodies rotted in the streets and blood rained from the skies as empires burned.

A court of rotting corpses to worship at the feet of the goddess of death.

The mad head of the house was rotting, and night was dragging her wings across the moon, tracing filigree on the floors. In the attic, more black moths were dancing because it was cold, because it was dark. Because they were hungry. For the butterfly.

He sees dilapidated three- and four-story concrete blocks, their walls painted in peeling pastel colors and streaked with graffiti, and because of the corrugated tin roofs, he again thinks of the reserve, which he also doesn't know. Sunlight. Black people staring at him. Tropical greenery. Tough dusty roots and grasses, leaves and vines. Gutted buildings. Ta, ta-da DA, ta, ta-da DA, ta, ta-da DA. Cement walls give onto gapingly empty ideas of rooms.

Wszystko, co z?o?one, skazane jest na rozpad.

It was very sad under the trees. Although spring was well advanced, in the deep shade there was nothing but death-rotten leaves, gray and white fungi, and over everything a funeral hush.

This mortal life decays apace How soon the bubble's broke Adam and all his numerous race Are Vanity and Smoke.

In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water.

The place was a mausoleum. Anna was reminded of Great Expectations, of the old woman in her decaying wedding dress presiding over a feast long go eaten by mice and worms.

I shudder when I imagine getting old. Up until a few months ago, I didn't even have hope of surviving past my twenties. Now that I want to live again, all this sickness and decay makes me feel humble and even slightly humiliated. How could I have so willingly thrown my life away when all these people are fighting desperately, every day, to save theirs?

When it comes to the quality of our thought, our neurons and synapses are entirely indifferent. The possibility of intellectual decay is inherent in the malleability of our brains.

Robert Kennedy spoke shortly before his death about the damage to a society caused by "the breaking of a man's spirit by denying him the chance to stand as a father and as a man among other men," by "indifference and inaction and slow decay" and by "a slow destruction of children." Kennedy added that "only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our souls.

the buildings of the city blossoming and withering like flowers from the swamps of Edo

am the guy with the flies. I am the one that dies.

The arc of history is long, but it bends towards zombie apocalypse.

They'd left behind their stone houses in Caer Luel and beautiful white fountains, their red-tile roofs and straight roads, their perfectly round red bowls with pictures of dogs hunting deer around the rim, their exact corners and glass cups. And now the marble statues had lost their paint and stood melancholy white streaked with moss; tiles had blown off in storms and been patched with reed; men built fire sands directly on the cracked and broken remnants of once-brilliant mosaics.

Peretur rode now through lands abandoned by people and sharp with the scent of vinegar where apples, unpicked, had fallen and rotted in the grass.

The metal rippled and flowed where it was not rusted.

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

The anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy.

It is not just that human trash accumulates in cities—it is that cities turn what accumulates in them into trash.

Der Reaktionär irrt, wenn er annimmt, daß der Demokrat sein Gründe ablehnt, aber seinen Widerwillen teilt. Der moderne Welt ist ein Schweinestall, in dessen Morast der Mensch von heute sich fröhlich wälzt.

No sentir la putrefacción del mundo moderno es indicio de contagio

With the appearance of "rational" relations among individuals the process of a society's decay begins.