Quotes About Decay

London, dirty little pool of life

Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?

All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru

Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.

Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment.

Without death and decay, how could life go on?

An evil life is a kind of death.

The five marks of the Roman decaying culture: Concern with displaying affluence instead of building wealth; Obsession with sex and perversions of sex; Art becomes freakish and sensationalistic instead of creative and original; Widening disparity between very rich and very poor; Increased demand to live off the state.

There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day; As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black, And eventually rotted away.

Depot Town"—a dilapidated factory section of Ypsi near the abandoned Penn Central depot,

Through the whole epoch of her prosperity, through the long Olympiads of her decay, through centuries after her fall, Athens looked back on the day of Marathon as the brightest of her national existence.

On the soft bed of luxury, most kingdoms have expired.

There is ruin and decayIn the House on the Hill:They are all gone away,There is nothing more to say.

When private virtue is hazarded on the perilous cast of expediency, the pillars of the republic, however apparent their stability, are infected with decay at the very centre.

The ego destroys its egoist silently and suddenly, as a termite does.

The lie is a termite; it causes suddenly collapsing.

Ölülerin, televizyon, radyo, mikser gibi bozulmuÅŸ nesneler gibi olduklar?n? ve en iyisinin onlar?n iÅŸler halini hat?rlamak olduÄŸunu, kabul edilebilir tek mezarl???n an?lar olduÄŸunu anlatt???n? aktard?m.

If people had been horrified at those who wanted to overthrow the state, now they were disgusted by those who, pretending to serve it, had consumed it, like a fat worm in the apple.

Se non c'e' amore, non solo inaridisce la vita delle persone, ma anche quella delle citta' ". Non mi ricordo come si espresse di preciso, ma il concetto era quello, e io lo associai alle nostre strade sporche, ai giardinetti polverosi, alla campagna scempiata dai palazzi nuovi, alla violenza in ogni casa, in ogni famiglia.

The daily standard of unlivability isn't news. So when the exceptional passes, everything is silent and everything continues to rot.

El olor de la muerte es inconfundible; es un olor a cuerpo sin alma. Las pequeñas cabezas de muñecas, los carritos de niños, las partituras de música, el almanaque, los restos de múltiples colchones, ropas desperdigadas, sólo el teclado de un piano, tendido de fatiga sobre la tierra, todo ello conforma el lenguaje de los escombros.

Ona se osje?a isklju?ena iz svega, jer i jest isklju?ena iz svega. Drugi idu naprijed penju?i se pritom preko nje. ?ini se da je ona jedina prepreka na putu. Šeta?i prolaze, a ona ostaje ležati poput odba?ena zamaš?ena papira koji otpuhuju naleti vjetra. Zamaš?en papir ne može daleko odletjeti; trune ondje gdje je. A proces raspadanja traje godinama, koje se bezli?no nižu.

I didn't care if he was a genius or a fucking idiot, he was rotting away, and it wasn't fun to watch.

As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.