Quotes About Decay

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

He pleasures his body with drugs and deadens his soul with his savage amusements. Aye, and spreads the disease to those around him, until they take no satisfaction in a contest of skill that draws no blood, until games are only amusing if lives are wagered on the outcome. The very coinage of life becomes debased. Slavery spreads, for if it is accepted to take a man's life for amusement, then how much wiser to take it for profit?

The Fool had always asserted that time moved in a great circle, but a decaying one, where at every turning humanity repeated mistakes, making them ever graver.

Torg, Vivacia reflected, was a piece of carrion that, overturned, now showed its working maggots to the daylight.

Civilization is a transient sickness.

You making haste 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.

Houses are like people. They have memories, and energy. They wait. They wilt from neglect. They sicken and decay. They haunt, and they are haunted.

Houses are like people. They have memories, and energy. They wait. They wilt from neglect. They sicken and decay. They haunt, and they are haunted. This house was a too big, rambling old place, populated by restless ghosts and bad memories. It seemed to rise out of the trees as we grew closer.

Thus, death begets death; evil begets evil.

Things between us were dissolving like an ice cub in a glass: the smaller it got, the faster it disappeared.

a few sagging houses whose stones had lost their mortar and were held together only by gravity and habit

few sagging houses whose stones had lost their mortar and were held together only by gravity and habit

Ä°nsan bir yerde tak?l?p kald?kça, nesneler ve insanlar iyice yozla??yorlar, çürüyorlar ve s?rf sizin hat?r?n?za leÅŸ gibi kokmaya baÅŸl?yorlar.

The desert preserves. What other lands destroy, the desert keeps. It accepts dead things, holds them close, and draws away the rot that would destroy; given time, it mummifies or crystalizes.

There were stairs that led down to the basement, too, but nobody ever went down there. There were dead rats living in the basement.

die a slow and painful death.

There were dead rats living in the basement.

There's one sort of poverty that I particularly like to help. Out-and-out beggars get taken care of, but poor gentle folks fare badly, because they won't ask, and people don't dare to offer charity. Yet there are a thousand ways of helping them, if one only knows how to do it so delicately that it does not offend. I must say, I like to serve a decayed gentleman better than a blarnerying beggar.

El humano Yiannis había cuidado de ella, de la misma manera que la tecno Maitena había cuidado de Lizard. Pero ahora las relaciones entre las especies se estaban pudriendo.

la selva, ese asfixiante, putrefacto, enloquecedor vientre vegetal.

Esos vivos no eran más que proyectos de cadáveres.

el principio de la infinita pérdida, el comienzo de ese imparable decaer que era el vivir.

Every old ruin in India becomes sooner or later a dwelling place of snakes, and the old summer-house was alive with cobras.

That was true, and dirt, earth, has power, an astonishing power of life, of creating and sweetening; it can take anything, a body, an old tin, decay, rust, corruption, filth, and turn it into itself, and slowly make it life, green blades of grass and weeds.