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Quotes About Decay

For the heavens shall vanish away like smoke and the earth shall wax old like a garment. And they that dwell therein shall die in like manner. For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worms shall eat them like wool.
~ Michael Ondaatje
Real food is alive and there for it should eventually die.
~ Michael Pollan
Noi avem tendinÈ›a s? ne îndrept?m atenÈ›ia È™i È™tiinÈ›a spre via?? È™i creÈ™tere, dar fireÈ™te c? moartea È™i descompunerea nu sunt mai puÈ›in importante pentru operaÈ›iile naturii, iar ciupercile sunt st?pânii necontestaÈ›i ai acestui t?râm.
~ Michael Pollan
Every single life is about construction and destruction.
~ Gaspar Noe
You don't let a historic site rot.
~ Robert Ballard
Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.
~ Anais Nin
When a banana gets rotten people love to tell you that you can make banana bread out of it. I have never seen anyone actually do it.
~ Greg Fitzsimmons
What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?
~ Madame de Stael
In countless small ways the world around us grows gradually shittier. Well, I don't like it at all.
~ Bill Bryson
Where body meets air, we are all cadavers. These outer skin cells are replaced every month. We shed skin copiously, almost carelessly: some twenty-five thousand flakes a minute, over a million pieces every hour. Run a finger along a dusty shelf, and you are in large part clearing a path through fragments of your former self. Silently and remorselessly we turn to dust.
~ Bill Bryson
It is an arresting thought that all that makes you lovely is deceased. Where body meets air, we are all cadavers. These outer skin cells are replaced every month. We shed skin copiously, almost carelessly: some twenty-five thousand flakes a minute, over a million pieces every hour. Run a finger along a dusty shelf, and you are in large part clearing a path through fragments of your former self. Silently and remorselessly we turn to dust.
~ Bill Bryson
22] Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.
~ Blaise Pascal
I'm against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
~ Bob Dylan
I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
~ Bob Dylan
I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
~ Bob Dylan
I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature cannot touch with decay
~ Bob Dylan
Unhealthy to the point of diseased, he'd say—he had caught something from her, some decay transmitted from soul to soul, but then he recollected contemptuously that by her own admittance she lacked a soul. At the intersection ahead they could see
~ Bob Shacochis
Once I am dead, there will be no lack of pious hands to throw me over the railing; my grave will be the fathomless air; my body will sink endlessly and decay and dissolve in the wind generated by the fall, which is infinite.
~ Borges
Más vil que un lupanar, la carnicería rubrica como una afrenta la calle. Sobre el dintel una ciega cabeza de vaca preside el aquelarre de carne charra y mármoles finales con la crueldad de un ídolo
~ BORGES JORGE LUIS
You had the physical sensation Of someone's quiet voice beside you. It was my old prophetic voice Sounding, untouched by decay: "Farewell, azure of Transfiguration, Farewell, the Second Savior's gold. Ease with a woman's last caress The bitterness of my fatal hour.
~ Boris Pasternak
It's rotten, okay? And once something's rotten, it can never be good again.
~ Brad Meltzer
Islam was an honorable religion that was unfortunately rotting from within. Like it or not, the radicals gave all Muslims a bad name. In fact, if blame where to be laid for the modern decay of Islam, the Saudi royal family was the perfect group to begin pointing the finger at. In an attempt to shore up there sovereignty, the Saudi's have helped to promote one of the most radical forms of Islam, which an overwhelming majority of the world's Islamic terrorists followed.
~ Brad Thor
It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
~ Bram Stoker
This unsightly condition is only temporary. Don't be sad. Don't fear. I will place you somwhere where the fish and the birds can strip away all this broken flesh. It will soon be gone. Then you will be a handsome skull and handsome bones. I will put you in good order and you can rest in the Sunlight and Starlight.
~ Susanna Clarke