Quotes of: Decaying Keyword

The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

Wendell Berry

Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.

Sallust

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

George Orwell

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

John Stuart Mill

What we call life...is the combination of the Five Aggregates, a combination of physical and mental energies. These are constantly changing; they do not remain the same for two consecutive moments. Every moment they are born and they die. 'When the A...

What the Buddha Taught. With Texts from Suttas & Dhammapada

The smell of dead fish lingered in the air, and excited flies darted from fish to fish lapping up the decay.

The Cursed Nile

Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices.

Dust and Decay

First I was decayed, I was putrefied. Kept thinking I could never live on, now that I had died...

The Girl on the Red Pillow

In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water.

Grotesque

The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted.

Hope and Despair

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.

Maurice Chevalier

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Jean-Luc Godard

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

The Importance of Being Earnest

Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.

Richard II

New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people.

Lasher

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

The Time Machine

The Bloodsucker Queen has lived for what, a millennium? She can wait on her decaying ass a little while longer.

Year of the Tiger

When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.

Octave Mirbeau

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.'

Samuel L. Jackson

We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

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

Thomas Jefferson