Decay Quotes

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay.

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay.

Without adventure civilization is in full 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.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.