Quotes About Rot

When the juices of trees have no means of escape, they clot and rot in them, making the trees hollow and good for nothing.

I am a spiritual being. After this body is dead, my spirit will soar. I refuse to let what will rot, rule the eternal. I choose self-control. I will be drunk only by joy. I will be impassioned only by my faith. I will be influenced only by God. I will be taught only by Christ. I choose self-control.

April was considered cruel because, unlike winter, which had "kept us warm" by "covering the earth in forgetful snow," April's thaw not only laid bare the dormant rot below, it unearthed a fresh hope—of renewal, of change, of brighter days ahead—that was ultimately doomed to disappoint.

It's for your own good, Kit,' Jane said with an expression of sorely tried patience. 'We don't want to be stuffy, but you are being fanciful, you know' 'Rot!' retorted Kitty.

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.I'll live a lush life in some small dive,And there I'll be, while I rot with the restOf those whose lives are lonely, too.

Love songs sweet enough to rot your teeth.

It's rotten, okay? And once something's rotten, it can never be good again.

where are the gods the gods hate us the gods have run away the gods have hidden in holes the gods are dead of the plague they rot and stink too there never were any gods there's only death

Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.

odor like that of rotting meat permeated

They say this fruit be like unto the world / So sweet. Or like, say I, the heart of man / So red without and yet within, unclue'd / We find the worm, the rot, the flaw. / However glows his bloom the bite / Proves many a man be rotten at the core.

Anger is to marriage what termites and rot are to trying to rebuild a home.

And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself—more birds than women flocking round his body!

A tainted fruit; he should be allowed to rot in peace.

Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.

When peace finally came, it smelled of the sort of peace that haunts prisons and cemeteries, a shroud of silence and shame that rots one's soul and never goes away. There were no guiltless hands or innocent looks.

for our sin God had visited our bodies with the gruesome ignominy of rot and decay, there was no indignity in the same body's receiving

Yes, like watching someone flog a dead horse into obedience," Settembrini scoffed; to which Naphta replied that since for our sin God had visited our bodies with the gruesome ignominy of rot and decay, there was no indignity in the same body's receiving an occasional beating—which immediately brought them to the topic of cremation.

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

it never happened but it seemed like there were times when rot stopped waited like a streetcar at a signal.

A miserable politics awaits us when the irreligious rot flows downstream.

Inequality is corrosive. It rots societies from within.

If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil.

That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.