Quotes of: Decay Keyword

Stones decay; words last.

Samoan

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

James Norman Hall

That which blossoms must also decay.

Indian

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

Jane Byrne

Children and fools always speak the truth.

On the Decay of the Art of Lying

One ought always to lie, when one can do good by it;

On the Decay of the Art of Lying

My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

James Joyce

This was not a love story that ended in tragedy. This was a tragedy that ended in a love story.

Love and Decay, Vol. Two

When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

Gautama Buddha

I had to hope there was more to life than death. More to living than not dying.

Love and Decay, Vol. Two

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

Theodor Adorno

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.

William Henry Hudson

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.

Ernst Fischer

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

On the Decay of the Art of Lying

In the end, the slow decay of the body didn't matter. We all continue on, renewing ourselves, through our offspring. They are what matter. They are what survives.

Slow Decay

I think maybe today a poem I hope after breakfast I start trying pulling it out of my own gut mostly by force

Epopoeia And the Decay of Satire

The beauty of a woman is that no two are the same. They are all different. It follows then that to be successful as a lover, you cannot make love to any two in the same way.

The Path To Decay (Vlad Dracula, #2)

Love is the strongest motivator of all, Reagan. Stronger than fear, stronger than hate, stronger than whatever else is out there. Love is more than enough to survive with; it's enough to live with.

Love and Decay, Episode Two

Entropy The Disintegrating Integration of Cheez-Whiz Squirts Insipid Inspiration Quoth the Oblong Eclipse of Nether-Knowledge Never Knowing Decaying Matter in a Decaying Orbit Orangutans of Science Study Ignorance of What The Cows Already Know.

Reality Challenged

I've got everything I need right here." That sentimental thought met a room full of cheesy and sarcastic "aw's" and an empty water bottle thrown at my head. No, stop guys, really. You're embarrassing me.

Love and Decay, Episode Ten

Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become ab...

The Decay of Lying