Quotes About Decay

Thus it is that bodies shut in tombs often preserve their original shape until the outside air reaches them and reduces them to dust.

The rotten apple spoils his companions.

239Fish and Visitors stink after three days

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

Even the most achieved life ends up in the hospital with your body and brain falling into pieces.

There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

In Detroit there are a lot of houses they are going to demolish because no one is taking care of them.

Instead, she'd let it get even more overgrown and cobwebbed. We'd always joked that it would be a good place to bury a body. It couldn't be.

Flash of Marian, now bones in a coffin, a white satin ribbon wrapped around dried blonde curls, like some bouquet gone stale.

On the pavement near my car are the smashed skeletons of two baby birds, their flattened beaks and wings making them look reptilian. They've been there for a year. I can't resist looking at them each time I get in my car. We need a good flood, wash them away.

In short, immaturity is spoiled. And what is spoiled doesn't ripen. It goes bad early, gets bitter and withers on the vine.

The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.

I wouldn't like to be cremated', she said. 'You'd prefer worms?' 'Yes, I would.

Rooms don't change, ornaments stand where you place them: only the heart decays.

Nothing in life was as ugly as death.

It seemed odd that a man's smell should cling in the folds of a curtain so long after the man himself had become dead matter, a gas, a decay.

I'm sick with life, I'm rotten with health.

Rooms don't change, ornaments stand where you place them: only the heart decays.

This is solute, which will cause every animal killed by Halo action to instantly decay into component molecules. This will avert an ecological miasma. But it could also be construed as a way to hide a tremendous crime from later investigators.

It's a grim reality, but the river towns are dying in Mississippi, by a slow exsanguination of people and talent that functions like a wasting disease.

Larvae can consume an entire human body in a week.

Dried-up carcasses of animals and humans alike—for to mechs they were alike

no-one ever seemed inclined to repair