Top 635 Decay Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
Behold the grapes and all the fruits that Autumn gives today, As robed in red and gold, she rules, the Empress of Decay!
The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, we shrink and shrivel.
Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.
Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.
Beware of suretyship for thy best friend; he that payeth another man's debt seeketh his own decay.
Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.
In America, we've spent trillions of dollars overseas while allowing our own infrastructure to fall into total disrepair and decay.
You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this frail world's decay.
Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.
Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay.
When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.
I masturbate. A lot. And yet, I don't floss because it's too much of a hassle. Ten seconds of joy over a lifetime of tooth decay, that's what I've chosen.
absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.
All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.
When you are captain at the same time, that's when it gets difficult and when your own game starts to decay because you have other worries and pressures.
All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.
The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal.
That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.
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 frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.
On every thing are traced decay and change. Look! how the shifting seasons slip away.
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.
The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.
Both for Havana's beauty and decay, it's very hard to restrain yourself from staring everywhere you look.
According to the yoga tradition, fear is the source of disease, decay - physical harm, when we're not thriving. And then finally, it's even the cause of death.
Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.
Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy.
I saw all the moral decay you could, beginning at 2 years old. But I also got to see how the other half lived.
LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
Beta decay was... like a dear old friend. There would always be a special place in my heart reserved especially for it.
Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.
Coffee, though a useful medicine, if drunk constantly will at length induce a decay of health , and hectic fever.
Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.
If under the pressure of Washington Donald Trump starts dissembling and saying things that aren't true, he'll decay as much as Obama did well on that.
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.
Many great novels have shown a world torn to shreds by the brutality of war. To do so, their authors ground their texts in the details of destruction and decay.
Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.
I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.
Now, with the general decay of religious faith , it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not.
This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.
Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay.
For too long, this country has been suffering a great moral and oral decay in spirit and incisors.
The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.
Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.
It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the progress of decay.
The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,
Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.
The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.
Cocaine decisions that you make today, will mean nothing later on when you get nose decay.
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.
Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters.
Most youth still hold the same values of their parents…if we do not alter this pattern, if we don’t resocialize, our system will decay.
