Quotes About Decay

War would soon erode the facade of their building as though it had accelerated time itself, a day's toll outpacing that of a decade.

Like all empires, the harsh and violent forms of control that have been used on the "wretched of the earth," have migrated back to the homeland in a time of decay to keep the population in check. The tyranny we have imposed on others is now being imposed on us.

But beauty is more, after all, than bones, for, while bones belong to death and endure after decay, beauty is a living thing.

Shrivel up and die, you putrescent sack of larva!

Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own and humans will return to medieval savagery and to the general state of imbecility that slugs overcame back in the Pleistocene era. Our world will not die as a result of the bomb...it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything and a lousy joke at that.

El tiempo hace con el cuerpo lo que la estupidez hace con el alma. Lo pudre.

El dinero es como cualquier otro virus: una vez que pudre el alma del que lo alberga, parte en busca de sangre fresca.

Como todas las ciudades viejas, Barcelona es una suma de ruinas. Las grandes glorias de las que se vanaglorian muchos, palacios, factorías y monumentos, insignias con las que nos identificamos, no son más que cadáveres, reliquias de una civilización extinguida.

El tiempo hace con el cuerpo lo que la estupidez hace con el alma, dijo, señalándose a sí mismo. Lo pudre.

El temps fa amb el cos el que l'estupidesa fa amb l'ànima. El podreix.

en este cochino mundo donde se pudre todo, empezando por la belleza y acabando por la memoria.

Czas robi z cia?em to samo co g?upota z dusz? - powiedzia?, wskazuj?c na siebie. - Rozk?ada je.

Time does to the body what stupidity does to the soul,' he said, pointing at himself. 'It rots it.

The only revenge left for you then will be to steal from life the pleasure of firm and passionate flesh--a pleasure that evaporates faster than good intentions and is the nearest thing to heaven you will find in this stinking world where everything decays, beginning with beauty and ending with memory.

el tiempo hace con el cuerpo lo que la estupidez con el alma: lo pudre.

Winter The season between autumn and spring, comprising in the Northern Hemisphere the coldest months of the year: December, January and February. A period of inactivity or decay.

Era o odor composto pelos materiais do edifício em chamas, por corpos queimados e por vampiros em desintegração. Era o cheiro do ódio.

My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path a foul carcass On a gravel strewn bed, Its legs raised in the air, like a lustful woman, Burning and dripping with poisons, Displayed in a shameless, nonchalant way Its belly, swollen with gases. - A Carcass

'Restoring' is a very arrogant concept. If you're taking a house from 1812, do you restore it to how it looked the day after it was built, or restore it to the way it looked in 1828, or the way it looked in 1872? Do the minimum to stop it from falling apart, and then get away.

The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything—and this is the most cruel law—continually gets worse.

We sometimes hear of the death of literature or of this or that genre, but literature doesn't die, just as it doesn't 'progress' or 'decay.' It expands, it increases. When we feel that it has become stagnant or stale, that usually just means we ourselves are not paying sufficient attention.

On older trees still than these huge lobes of fungi grew like lungs. Here, as everywhere, the Unfulfilled Intention, which makes life what it is, was as obvious as it could be among the depraved crowds of a city slum. The leaf was deformed....the taper was interrupted..and the ivy slowly strangled to death the promising sapling.

I am sorry to shock you, she said. But the moth eats the garment somewhat in five-and thirty years.

The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing Alive enough to have strength to die;