Quotes About Decay

Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy.

In the 'Revelation Space' books, the spaceships are a bit old and rusty, and things go wrong, and they don't work quite how they're meant to. And people asked why I did it this way, and groping around for an explanation, I said that I grew up in Barry, this post-industrial sea town full of rusting infrastructure.

There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable failure and better times long gone.

I'm really into ghost towns. I've driven cross-country the past few summers, and I would stop at some ghost towns along the way. They're like a microcosm of America as a whole.

But time has set its maggot on their track.

When the forces that hold it together go away, the body must fall.

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence.

People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.

When the juices of trees have no means of escape, they clot and rot in them, making the trees hollow and good for nothing.

The very old do not succomb to disease-they implode their way into eternity. (How We Die)

Vielleicht steht die Welt gerade am Beginn ihres Unterganges.

A state too extensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into a tyranny; it disregards the principles which it should preserve, and finally degenerates into despotism. The distinguishing characteristic of small republics is stability: the character of large republics is mutability.

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La muerte había provocado sus habituales y siniestros cambios, una alquimia inversa que transformó el oro de la vida en materia abyecta y pestilente.

swollen bowels burst and an intolerable stench assailed the nostrils of bystanders

Mon climat intérieur est tropical aujourd'hui : il y a de la pluie, du soleil, des odeurs fortes, et un sentiment de pourriture végétale flotte dans l'air débilitant.

The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.

He would have liked to say goodbye, Shake hands with many friends. In Highgate now his finger-bones Stick through his finger-ends. You, God, who treat him thus and thus, Say, "Save his soul and pray." You ask me to believe You and I only see decay.

Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now, There isn't grass to graze a cow. Swarm over, Death!

Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst. That the best things corrupted are the worst.

Time ... antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things.

Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time.

The dead walk among us.