Quotes About Decay

Seluruh kedudukan yang enak diambil orang-orang tua. Mereka hanya pandai korupsi... angkatan tua itu sungguh bobrok. Hanya angkatan tua yahg korup dan mengajak korup! Angkatan muda membuat revolusi melahirkan sejarah.

Seluruh kedudukan enak diambil orang-orang tua. Mereka hanya pandai korupsi. Rencana-rencanaku kandas di laci-laci. Angkatan tua itu sungguh bobrok! Setiap republiken mestinya republikein sejati. Satu kesalahan bisa membuat dia jadi khianat tanpa maunya sendiri.

Painful recollections are always of the dead. And the dead decompose rapidly, and there remains even in the proximity of their tombs nothing but the beauty of nature, silence, the purity of air.

A woman is like a banana; one alone can turn the whole bunch rotten.

If middle-class society is decaying, if we have got into a blind alley from which we cannot emerge without attacking past institutions with torch and hatchet, it is precisely because we have given too much to counting. It is because we have let ourselves be influenced into giving only to receive. It is because we have aimed at turning society into a commercial company based on debit and credit.

Memory is a wound, you said. And some things are released only by the act of writing. Unless I go in with my scalpel and suction to excavate, to clean, to bring into light, that wound festers, and the gangrene of decay will eat me alive.

This village is a real trap. Bit by bit it will eat up every single person who remain here. This place will never change.

They knew that mere appearance and disappearance are on the surface like waves on the sea, but life which is permanent knows no decay or diminution.

It only takes a drop of poison to turn what is sound to something rotten and corrupt." -p. 201

Healthy camel crickets spend a lot of their waking hours grooming, so I have learned to recognize the ones that will soon die because they walk about encrusted with sand and bits of litter, having lost all interest in keeping clean.

When the body breaks down, it does not all go at once; it goes piece by piece.

Dead things should be buried and not eaten.

I'm not green-fingered, I'm grey-fingered. I suck the life out of plants.

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both.

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

Holloway Prison is a very old place, and it has the disadvantages of old places which have never known enough air and sunshine. It reeks with the odours of generations of bad ventilation, and it contrives to be at once the stuffiest and the draughtiest building I have ever been in.

My old furniture is rotting in a barn where I was permitted to store it, and as for myself, dear God, I don't have a roof over my head and it is raining into my eyes.

of all the disfigured and decaying Things, which, after all, are essentially nothing more than accidental remains from another time and from a life that is not and should not be ours.

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

The surest poison is time.

From the views I have already expressed, you will infer the sad conviction, which I share, I believe, with numbers, of the universal decay and now almost death of faith in society. The soul is not preached. The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct. On this occasion, any complaisance would be criminal which told you, whose hope and commission it is to preach the faith of Christ, that the faith of Christ is preached. It

Pleasure that profanes is pleasure that destroys.

We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.