Quotes About Decay

Human beings suck the life out of everything that's beautiful.

hardly had my knife severed the head of each, before the whole body began to melt away and crumble into its native dust, as though the death that should have come centuries ago had at last assert himself and say at once and loud, I am here!

All Lucy's loveliness had come back to her in death, and the hours that had passed, instead of leaving traces of 'decay's effacing fingers', had but restored the beauty of life, till positively I could not believe my eyes that I was looking at a corpse. The Professor looked sternly grave. He had not loved

And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention

Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.

odor like that of rotting meat permeated

The earth is littered with the ruins of empires that belived they were eternal.

Things had been falling down since the beginning of time.

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

Every generation worries that educational standards are decaying. One of the oldest short essays in human history, dating from Sumer some 4,000 years ago, laments that the young are disastrously more ignorant than the generation immediately preceding.

el deterioro de sus cuerpos de que habla la segunda ley de la termodinámica

Princess, the age of some people can only be calculated by the level of - level of - rot in them.

Las vidas de todas las personas, ¿qué son sino rastros de escombro... cada día más escombro... más escombro... largos, muy largos rastros de escombros que nada puede limpiar más que la muerte?

The foundations of some formerly strong lands became so riddled with termites of diminished purpose, so decayed with the decadence of smug moderation, and so emaciated with the vacillating aims of appears, that even when they saw the enemy coming and did resist, they were easily toppled when the Imperial Order finally pushed.

Tyranny cannot endure forever. By its very nature it rots everything it rules, including itself.

All the higher life forms scythed away, just like that. [ . . . ] Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.

Plutonium may give you grief for thousands of years, but Arsenic is for ever.

They said that dying was just like going to sleep, although of course if you weren't careful bits of you could rot and drop off.

Say what you like. Plutonium may give you grief for thousands of years, but arsenic is forever.

After all it was only wood. It'd rot in a few hundred years. By the measure of infinity, it hardly existed at all. On average, considered over the lifetime of the multiverse, most things didn't

A crude culture makes a coarse people, and private refinement cannot long survive public excess. There is a Gresham's law of culture as well as of money: the bad drives out the good, unless the good is defended.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

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From the outside everything looks fine," the dentist said, "but it's rotten to the core.