Quotes About Decay

Church leaders don't know how to deal with this chronic crisis; as with the out-of-touch Orthodox hierarchy and clergy of the late imperial period, many don't seem to realize what's happening, much less how to address the decay.

distant as the death of grocery chickens.

No hay un proceso de regeneración para mejorar lo que se ha descompuesto, sino un movimiento de restauración del viejo régimen político autoritario.

The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted.

Life is Not a perpetual climb towards Greatness. For our family, ourselves, and friends, It is but sad Decay, so, Let every girl die after her Hebé (???). And every man after his Aristeia(????????).

Sin brings about both spiritual death and physical death.

It is a sure sign of a church's internal decay when the sum and substance of its religious activity becomes entwined with political partisanship, especially when loyalty to a political figure is equated with loyalty to God.

She had lived among those oak and pine trees when their roots grew deep beneath her and their leaves thick above. Now he lived among them, too, only he lived among them cut and dead.

That's the hatred that kills you. There'll be more of it, so deep and thick there will always be some left, enough to go around...it will ooze out over the earth...and poison it, so nothing will grow but viciousness, among the dead, among men.

Even memories have their youth … When you let them grow old, they turn into revolting phantoms dripping with selfishness, vanity, and lies … They rot like apples

you've probably noticed that after the first half-century practically everybody gets leaky, they can't keep it in ... hence the cruelty of long drawn-out meals and drinking sessions ... ships and apartment houses are the same ... everything starts to leak ... sphincters, bladders, drain pipes, bowels ... the half-century is merciless for ladies and gentlemen ... worse for dogs and cats! ... with them it comes sooner! ... five ... six years ...

Their last remaining pleasure! Their shriveled carcasses contained not one solitary atom that was not absolutely vicious!

We people are just worms on top of it, worms on its fat, revolting carcass, eating its entrails and all its poisons … Nothing can help us, we were born rotten … There you have it!

La burguesía es una podredumbre perfecta. Nunca, desde los tiempos bíblicos, nos ha sobrevivido una plaga más insidiosa, más obscena y más degradante que la viscosa sujeción burguesa. ¡Una clase astutamente tiránica, codiciosa, rapaz, y tartufesca hasta la médula!

Zemlja je mrtva... A mi smo samo crvi na njoj, crvi na njenom velikom lešu, koji sve vreme žderu njena creva i njene otrove... Ništa ne može da bude od nas. Truli smo od ro?enja... I eto, tako je to!

A medida que te quedas en un sitio, las cosas y las personas se van destapando, pudriéndose, y se ponen a apestar a propósito para ti.

Pe m?sur? ce r?mâi într-un loc, lucrurile ÅŸi oamenii se degradeaz?, se stric? ÅŸi încep s? put? anume pentru tine.

Invocar la posteridad es hacer un discurso a los gusanos.

You'll never get a family to understand that a man, related to them or not, is nothing but suspended putrefaction … No family will pay bills for suspended putrefaction …" For

En quelques mois ça change une chambre, même quand on n'y bouge rien. Si vieilles, si déchues qu'elles soient, les choses, elles trouvent encore, on ne sait où, la force de vieillir. Tout avait changé déjà autour de nous. Pas les objets de place, bien sûr, mais les choses elles-mêmes, en profondeur.

Puisque nous sommes que des enclos de tripes tièdes et mal pourries nous aurons toujours du mal avec le sentiment. Amoureux ce n'est rien c'est tenir ensemble qui est difficile. L'ordure, elle, ne cherche ni à durer, ni à croître. Ici, sur ce point, nous sommes bien plus malheureux que la merde, cet enragement à persévérer dans notre état constitue l'incroyable torture.

When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.

Everything ritualistic must be strictly avoided, because it immediately turns rotten. Of course a kiss is a ritual too and it isn't rotten, but ritual is permissible only to the extent that it is as genuine as a kiss.

As soon as one is born, one starts dying.