Quotes About Decay

Their primary idea was the old Bengali idea of the Motherland, the idea that Bengal had given to the rest of India, Debu said: the idea that India had to be a country one could be proud of. The idea had decayed in Bengal since independence, Debu said. 'In my class the idea is still there, but it is a remnant of the past – considered an anachronism – and in the class above, the industrialists and businessmen, the idea exists more or less as a negative quantity.

attributed the decay of Hindu society in Trinidad to the rise of the timorous, weak, non-beating class of husband.

to be among the ruins was to have your time-sense unsettled.

The second law of thermodynamics, the universal tendency toward heat death and disorder, became perhaps the grandest of all cosmic generalizations – yet also one of which most non-scientists remain ignorant.

The discipline is based on one grisly fact: a corpse makes a good lunch.

Not even a hand-stitched suit could hide a body gone ruinously to seed. I was tempted to offer some fashion advice, but I didn't think he'd welcome the news that this year, bellies are being worn inside the trousers

El reloj del cementerio se adelanta un poco.

We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption.

When those who found this skeleton attempted to disengage it from that which it held in its grasp, it crumbled to dust.

Por qué aquella desmesurada carreta ocupaba aquel sitio en la calle? Lo primero para obstruirla, y lo segundo para que se acabara de enmohecer. En el viejo orden social hay también una porción de instituciones que ocupan del mismo modo la vía pública, y que tampoco tienen otras razones para estar en ella.

Why was that fore-carriage of a truck in that place in the street? In the first place, to encumber the street; next, in order that it might finish the process of rusting. There is a throng of institutions in the old social order, which one comes across in this fashion as one walks about outdoors, and which have no other reasons for existence than the above.

in the bourgeoisie, honored situations decay through too easy relations; one must beware whom one admits;

All four of them seemed to be standing at the four corners of old age, which are decrepitude, decay, ruin, and sadness.

We live in a sad society. Succeed - that is the advice which falls drop by drop from the overhanging corruption.

Todavía perdura este patio la tormenta del combate; es visible el espanto; las convulsiones de la refriega se han quedado petrificadas en ese lugar; los seres están vivos, y luego muertos; fue ayer. Las paredes agonizan, las piedras se caen, las brechas vocean; los agujeros son llagas; los árboles inclinados y estremecidos parecen esforzarse por escapar.

In the years that she had been tying scraps to the branches, the tree had died and the fruit had turned bitter. The other apple trees were hale and healthy, but this one, the tree of her remembrances, was as black and twisted as the bombed-out town behind it.

We don't need to learn about what old rich men did more than one hundred years ago. The world is falling apart now.

smell of vomit and mold and decay. His lungs and nostrils ache. He can't breathe without gasping.

Just a tick past fruition sits decay.

The unchained workers of decay were waiting in a dormant state for the necessary conditions to be established, as soon enough they would be, when they might recommence their interrupted struggle, that predetermined, merciless assault in the course of which they would dismantle whatever had been alive once and once only, reducing it into tiny insignificant pieces under the eternally silent cover of death.

Orele treceau greu, noroc ca era de mult stricat ceasul, nu se auzea ticaitul monoton care sa le aminteasca de trecerea anevoioasa a timpului.

He soured on life some seconds after he was born and has made a profession of deteriorating ever since.

If it had been touch, it might have been pressure-not an uncomfortable pressure, but one that swept away all the pain of her headache. Like a river rushing through her mind, clearing out everything stagnant and clotted and decayed.

With the opening of the door, and the installation of electric light in the cupboard, the skeletons had crumbled into dust.