Quotes About Decay

A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.

High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.

the houses all seemed a little senile, with arthritc hinges and window screens hanging at embarrassing angles.

I waited a moment, then lowered myself, cross-legged, to the earth. Some of the graves were adorned with flowers, in various stages of freshness and decay. As though the dead could smell the bouquets.

These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives: for all the scents of green things growing, each breath is but an exhalation of the grave. Bodies jerk like puppet corpses, and hell walks laughing— Laughing

As educational standards decline and pop culture disseminates the inarticulate ravings and unintelligible patois of surfers, jocks, and valley girls, we are turning into a nation of functioning illiterates [...]. English itself will steadily decay unless we get back to basics and start to respect our language again.

Bond investors are the vampires of the investment world. They love decay, recession - anything that leads to low inflation and the protection of the real value of their loans.

Things fall apart of their own accord, but the sins of men speed their deterioration: that is wisdom from the ages. It

Things fall apart: this is one of the great discoveries of humanity. And we speed the natural deterioration of great things through blindness, inaction and deceit. Without attention, culture degenerates and dies, and evil prevails.

we speed the natural deterioration of great things through blindness, inaction and deceit. Without attention, culture degenerates and dies, and evil prevails.

Sve se može srušiti: to je jedno od velikih ljudskih otrki?a. A mi ubrzavamo prirodno propadanje velikih stvari svojom sljepo?om, nedjelovanjem i zavaravanjem. Bez budne pozornosti kultura se raspada i umire, a zlo pobje?uje.

As coisas desmoronam por vontade própria, mas os pecados dos homens aceleram sua degeneração.

Tem certas flores, você já reparou?, que são belas e perfumadas enquanto estão nos galhos, nos jardins. Levadas pros jarros, mesmo jarros de prata, ficam murchas e morrem.

cae demasiado rápido la sangre, cortarla un poco más, más, y me comienzo a entibiar, a enfriar, a helar, soy este trozo de hielo que gotea y gotea, gotea mi nariz y gotean mis manos y mis pies, un trozo de hielo que se está disolviendo y no queda nada.

In no time, you find yourself left without civilization.

The bureaucratization of life brings about its absolute decay in all orders.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

Windows were broken. Where not broken they were boarded up, had been for years: the rust from nailheads had written long, sad farewells down the salt-silvered planks.

In the stinking dark forest of splintery posts under the pier lay pizza tins, beer cans, cigarette wrappers, condoms—the joyless detritus of American joy.

Venedig war ein Krebsgeschwür, das gezielt seine eigenen Metastasen plante.

The windows in the soup kitchen are never opened, and for that reason the aroma of old meals lingers in corners and rises from the table tops - which are never washed - when the steam from the freshly cooked food brings them back to life.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.