Quotes About Decay

Tis like the dripping of some stagnant rain From the housetops of a ruined city Upon the flagstones. Not one petal clings Upon the stalk of life or memory. Stain Not one pale thought with blushes ; my soul's dead As a corpse flung out of the tideway on The stinking flats of London mud.

Makeup peeled off her like plaster from an old Moscow building.

The winds must come from somewhere when they blow…There must be reasons why the leaves decay. (From Auden's If I Could Tell You

How sad, however, if we're given Our youth as something to betray, And what if youth in turn is driven To cheat on us, each hour, each day, If our most precious aspirations, Our freshest dreams, imaginations In fast succession have decayed, As leaves, in putrid autumn, fade. It is too much to see before one Nothing but dinners in a row, Behind the seemly crowd to go, Regarding life as mere decorum, Having no common views to share, Nor passions that one might declare.

The stunned knight came upon a field Where nothing lived, just scattered skulls and bones. What battle had been fought, what did it yield? No one remembers why the screams and groans. Why are you mute field? Why overgrown with grasses of oblivion?

The man is a cabin, poorly kept.

The building he took her to was an abandoned foundry out in the countryside and rain leaked in everywhere.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Life would be a great deal easier if dead things had the decency to remain dead.

you take two radioactive atoms, absolutely identical in every conceivable way, they will decay randomly. The first might decay immediately, while the second doesn't do the same for an hour or more. Why the difference? After all, they're identical. Scientists have never found any way to explain it, or predict when this decay will occur.

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

We are all dying of life.

Life is death in slow motion.

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.

We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.

The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay

Do you realize that there is nothing in our genes that tells us when to die? There are genetic codes that tell us how to grow, how to breathe, and how to sleep, but NOTHING that tells us to die. So why do we? Because we literally rust and decay our bodies from the inside out with poor food and lifestyle choices.

The dead leaves fly. They're cropped and gathered to the rich barn of the earth.

epitomized in the jingle that calls fluoride 'nature's way to prevent tooth decay.

Dead animals were routinely tossed into this soup, where everything decayed and sent up noxious bubbles to foul the air.

The salt of the earth dissolves and the shit remains

Each day death corrodes what we call living, and life ceaselessly swallows our desire for the void.