Quotes About Decay

There's small choice in rotten apples.

He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.

I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness.

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order.

The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.

Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.

If these pages are thick with death, think of the battlefield. Corpses in different stages of decay, the slowly dying, moments of death exist around you everywhere. Who are you? You are among the living, but can you be certain?

This was the circle of life and his decaying body was the reward for everything before, good and bad.

She give me honey to make my voice sweet, but there never were a sweetness in me. I prefer a taste of rot.

I merely feel emptyness. A hollow of dead brush where flowers use to bloom.

The abandonment came, and now this shabby bacchanal.

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

Civilization is going down the drain, and the sooner it does, the better.

Not only is natural burial by far the most ecologically sound way to perish, it doubles down on the fear of fragmentation and loss of control. Making the choice to be naturally buried says, 'Not only am I aware that I'm a helpless, fragmented mass of organic matter, I celebrate it. Vive la decay!'

Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader in human space exploration.

If you Fear, your Heart will decay

In the long run everything with the most minute vulnerability breaks, given the ruthlessness of time.

Y los detalles se gastan, se echan a perder si uno los lleva consigo sin utilizarlos durante mucho tiempo. No sólo los detalles sino todo, todas las ocurrencias y las ideas.

This is how the past interrupts our lives, all of it entering the same doorway--like the hole in the trunk of my neighbor's tree: at once a natural shelter, haven for small creatures, but also evidence of injury, an entrance for decay.