Top 635 Decay Quotes & Sayings

Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.

The essence of decay is inactivity.

I guess even the prettiest things eventually end up stinking. Everything does. We all will die and rot and decay and be reborn as dirt or flowers or worms, or polar bears who will drown because their ice is all melting, or presidents of war-torn countries, or whales swimming around acidifying seas. And then we will rot and decay again. And so it goes.

When learning stops, decay sets in.

Nearly all our ills are the result of neglect in some way or other. And this truth may be said to apply to the ills of nations as well. Negligence is at the bottom of all decay. And decay always starts by showing little signs-or warnings. Then is the time to show interest and to be alert. There is nothing quite so easy as to neglect, and nothing quite so difficult as to repair that negligence. Negligence always carries a high price. It costs nothing to avoid it!

What people love about life is its miraculous beauty; what they hate about death is the loss and decay around it. Yet losing is not losing, and decay turns into beauty, as beauty turns back into decay. We are breathed in, breathed out. Therefore all you need is to understand the one breath that makes up the world.

It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.

We have been forced to admit for the first time in history not only the possibility of the fact of the growth and decay of the elements of matter. With radium and with uranium we do not see anything but the decay. And yet, somewhere, somehow, it is almost certain that these elements must be continuously forming. They are probably being put together now in the laboratory of the stars. ... Can we ever learn to control the process. Why not? Only research can tell.

Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.

Royalty is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay

Enforcing equality to compensate for the monstrous unfairness of nature destroys liberty. But total liberty leads to various forms of "aristocracy" and decay. Yet total equality leads to oppressive statism and decay. However, equality of opportunity leads to a vibrantly chaotic and creative meritocracy.

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

See how time makes all grief decay.

The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey.

Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence!

Doctors look after me. But, basically, I look after myself. I don't overeat. I don't develop a big paunch. I do a little bit of exercise. At the same time, I believe that if you don't work, you will decay. The decay process is through not using your faculties - not using your brain, not using your body.

I sorrow that all fair things must decay.

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

Looking after children can be a subtle way of giving up... They become the whole ones, the well ones, the postponement of happiness, the ones who won't drink too much, give up, get divorced, become mentally ill. The part of oneself that's fighting against decay and depression is transferred to guarding them from decay and depression. In the meantime one decays and gets depressed.

The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.

The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world.

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

All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru

Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just as any period decays in our minds, the things of that period should decay too, and in that way they're preserved for a while in the few hearts like mine that react to them. Trying to preserve a century by keeping its relics up to date is like keeping a dying man alive by stimulants.

Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has a certain number of days; it is bound to decay. Whereas, what we call truth is like gold; days, months, even centuries can hide gold, can overlook it but they can never make it decay.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work. I need the shock of touch, the resistance of place, materials and weather, the earth as my source. Nature is in a state of change and that change is the key to understanding. I want my art to be sensitive and alert to changes in material, season and weather. Each work grows, stays, decays. Process and decay are implicit. Transience in my work reflects what I find in nature.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

The process of transformation consists mostly of decay.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

Change and decay in all around I see.

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.

What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?

Sound: always in a state of emergence or decay

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.

Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from with'ring life away; New forms arise, and diff'rent views engage

The Beautiful chariots of kings wear out, This body too undergoes decay. But the Dhamma of the good does not decay: So the good proclaim along with the good.

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

Wealth accumulates, and men decay.

All composite things decay. Strive diligently.

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

For me it's really important that the work here displays an aesthetic of decay along with the sunken boat with the broken ceramic pieces. They form a unity in showing the power of destruction, the beauty of destruction, whether it's from nature - because the boat has sunk - or through other forces. It's really the beauty of decay and death that holds a power here.

The only jewel which will not decay is knowledge.

Soap, a cleaning product, can be made from decay.

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

All things are subject to decay and change.

I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.

The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay.

The woods decay, the woods decay and fall.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'