I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. Votes: 5
Henry MillerTradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay. Votes: 4
Jiddu KrishnamurtiThere is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt. Votes: 4
Niccolo MachiavelliAnd Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all. Votes: 3
Edgar Allan PoeDecay is as inevitable as death, as nothing lives in this temporary world for eternity Votes: 3
Usama HussainIf movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down. Votes: 2
Jack ValentiWriting a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. Votes: 2
Flannery O'ConnorOur works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear. Votes: 2
Walter SmithLife is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city. Votes: 2
Urs FischerStates, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay. Votes: 0
Walter Savage LandorAn age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonSometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve. Votes: 0
Karen Thompson WalkerI don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision. Votes: 0
Allen GinsbergEarth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay. Votes: 0
George MeredithStatesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay. Votes: 0
Lord ChesterfieldAny society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinSuffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls. Votes: 0
Anne RiceThe deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles. Votes: 0
Charles de SecondatYou guard against decay, in general, and stagnation, by moving, by continuing to move. Votes: 0
Mary DalyA society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonWe've allowed our military to decay, and we project weakness on the international stage. Votes: 0
Rick ScottThe constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauWe live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay. Votes: 0
Umberto EcoMen, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay. Votes: 0
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day. Votes: 0
William Shakespeare...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant. Votes: 0
Yukio MishimaAbsorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay. Votes: 0
Richard M. WeaverOn every thing are traced decay and change. Look! how the shifting seasons slip away. Votes: 0
Isaac McLellanIll fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithWhenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay. Votes: 0
Carl SandburgWhere there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.' Votes: 0
HeraclitusCocaine decisions that you make today, will mean nothing later on when you get nose decay. Votes: 0
Frank ZappaA state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay. Votes: 0
Simon BolivarThe body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaOne of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNew Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people. Votes: 0
Anne RiceWhen the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die. Votes: 0
Gautama BuddhaThere is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind. Votes: 0
Sarah Josepha HaleCan we wonder that men perish and are forgotten when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Votes: 0
Decimius Magnus Ausonius..the nuclear family from across the street, which, as a result of decay, truly did have 2.5 kids; Votes: 0
Robin BeckerBeware of suretyship for thy best friend; he that payeth another man's debt seeketh his own decay. Votes: 0
Joseph JekyllThe soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Votes: 0
Edmund WallerThe decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonHe that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age. Votes: 0
Francis BaconSpiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time. Votes: 0
Abraham Joshua HeschelThe proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself. Votes: 0
William GodwinThat is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay. Votes: 0
Brian AldissEvery work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death. Votes: 0
Lewis MumfordThe first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it. Votes: 0
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