Quotes About Decay

It is a sad spectacle, a dead town trying to pretend it is alive.

I remembered her father, the old man from another world, the man with mittens, who had to be spoon-fed on porridge because he was ninety, who smelled like an unburied corpse.

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.

We are well on our way to becoming a banana republic in every respect except, of course, that we don't grow bananas.

We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.

There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic.

Trouble is to man what rust is to iron

Time corrupts. And we pay a price for everything corruptible: food, roof beams, souls.

The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its annihilating act on the first try.

It's a filthy city. Everything here is trash. Eventually someone's gotta burn it.

Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.

It is a terrible fate to be a human, to be young and fair, and then so quickly to decay." "A terrible fate indeed: to grow, to learn, to love, to create, to let go. Some say it's a terrible fate to be a Faery; to stay unchanging and unfeeling for all eternity, to spend one's time in nothing but frivolity and pleasure-seeking," Sylvie answers.

but now, along this high, rocky road, it was the leaves of cherry trees that predominated. From the bridge on, these lay like fallen red flowers. Some wet leaves, already decaying, had faded to a pink that was the color of the dawn. Why should decay take the color of the dawn?

Perché siamo giunti a una società del genere? Perché viviamo in un'era in cui tutto ciò che era puro è stato contaminato?

of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.

Third, sustained inflation also undermined the capacity of the system to sustain itself without social sacrifice, which the citizens were no longer prepared to make. Cultural decay, political division, and financial inflation conspired to make Rome vulnerable even to the barbarians in its near abroad.

Deliquescence.

Depravity feeds on depravity, and with no sense right and wrong, there is nothing for them to hold on to.

A cierta edad- afirmó Lewis Thomas cierta vez -,está en nuestra naturaleza desgastarnos, caer en trastornos y morir y eso es todo.

Death swallows death.

Be it man or tree or institution, it is better to die too early than too late.