Quotes About Decay

Suffering is the decay of the heart; all that we have loved becomes the 'forbidden' when we have not understood it all...

Once in the war I saw a dead horse that had been lying long against the ground. Time and the birds and its own last concentration had removed the body a great way from the head. As I looked upon the head, my memory weighed for the lost body; and because of that missing quantity even heavier hung that head along the ground. So love, when it has gone, taking time with it, leaves a memory of its weight.

Suffering is the decay of the heart, all that we have loved becomes the 'forbidden' when we have not understood it all, as the pauper is the rudiment of a city, knowing something of the city, which the city, for its own destiny, wants to forget. So the lover must got against nature to find love.

She looks out the window and notices the sections of Cleveland Street gone to rot, the filigreed metal balconies of the shambling terraces like rusted lacework, the grimy tiled pub facades, the windows of the Lebanese restaurants filmed with grease. This is old Sydney, her father's town of grit and mildew. The

What man calls civilization always results in deserts.

it wont be long now it wont be longtill earth is barren as the moonand sapless as a mumbled bone

Las asesorías contables son como champiñones: crecen en la oscuridad y se nutren de basura», dice Tom Mornini

One of the sad features of most close relationships is the decay of intimacy as a function of time, turmoil, and all the little misunderstandings that inevitably occur between people, leading them, year in and year out, toward the same tired conclusions: conversation falters; friendships fail.

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.

You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.

If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.

Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Ketchup left overnight on dinner plates has a longer half-life than radioactive waste.

Kids do have to learn that life is a humiliating charade of endless disappointment and tragedy ultimately culminating in pain, decay, and death. My parents used to sing me to sleep with that one.

All evil is good become cancerous.

I'm afraid they have been eat up by the elements.' Just like all of us.

Stupid entropy ruins everything.

Where did all the words go?" I asked. "They just wasted away," my mom explained, " like a leg you never walk on.

In Conisborough there's no Hoxton Square to bring a bit of light relief. It's just mile after mile of broken windows and the bloody Earth Centre.