Decay Quotes

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.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

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.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

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.

Where wealth accumulates, men 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.

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.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

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

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.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

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

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

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

All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.

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

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion.

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

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

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.

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

Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.