Quotes About Decay

It was a sign of decaying culture, of course, that dams had been built against the further development of ideas.

centuries would yet pass before the mighty works of fifty generations of humans would decay past use. Only the declining powers of men, themselves, rendered them useless now.

when the old empire began to rot at the fringes, it could be considered that science, as science, had failed the outer worlds. To be re-accepted it would have to present itself in another guise

You distrusted the Imperials too. Most human beings do these days, which is an important factor in the decay and deterioration of the Empire.

the credits still go—unproductively—to the armed forces and vital areas of the social good are allowed to deteriorate. That's what I call decay.

Circulation ceases first at the outer edges. It will take a while yet for the decay to reach the heart.

La entropía, pequeña, es una palabra que significa la cantidad de desgaste del Universo. Todo

Esteban abrió la puerta y necesitó algunos segundos para ver en la oscuridad. El olor a medicamentos y podredumbre le golpeó la cara un olor dulzón de sudor, humedad, encierro y algo que al principio no identificó, pero que pronto se le adhirió como una peste: el olor de la carne en descomposición.

Autumn of the Patriarch

It will all stop someday, but not for billions of years. Many billions. Even the stars run down, you know. Entropy must increase.

I don't want to do 'Beyond the Planet of the Apes.' I don't want a zombie society. I don't want to go that far.

A non-frightening zombie is a lame zombie.

I love zombie films.

I am a zombie fan, but all of the zombie stories I've enjoyed started when the dead rose and ended three days later with everybody looking exhausted. I was thinking, 'What happens in 20 years?'

From the Bronx to Buffalo, cities and towns in New York have been plagued by what are commonly called zombie properties. These are homes that residents abandon - often after they have received a foreclosure notice - which then languish, uncared-for, until the foreclosure process is complete.

Because we've never encountered a decomposing body, we can only assume they are out to get us. It is no wonder there is a cultural fascination with zombies.

Zombies, mummies - they're disgusting and gross. You don't want to make out with a mummy. At least, I don't.

With slow-moving zombies, what always comes at stake is our humanity.

Zombies have always had a lot of built-in social commentary.

I like my zombies slow and I like my zombies stupid.

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

We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have moldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.

Middle age is youth without its levity, And age without decay.

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.