Quotes about Decay

The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.

If I go back home to Wittenberg, I'll lie down in a coffin and give the maggots a fat doctor to eat.

No nobles will be left to proclaim a king, and all her princes will come to nothing.

I'm sick with life, I'm rotten with health.

They were piled into countless heaps, and there was a terrible stench in the land.

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.

But when the bright light of all the world was put out, or, rather, when the Roman Empire was decapitated, and, to speak more correctly, the whole world perished in one city

Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.

Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away.

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.