Quotes about Decay

Our pride must have winter weather to rot it.

For now I see peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

As they witnessed in drooping flower and falling leaf the first signs of decay, Adam and his companion mourned more deeply than men now mourn over their dead. The death of the frail, delicate flowers was indeed a cause of sorrow; but when the goodly trees cast off their leaves, the scene brought vividly to mind the stern fact that death is the portion of every living thing.

The walls are cracked and water runs upon them within threads without sound, black and glistening as blood.

It is a matter of common experience that things get more disordered and chaotic with time.

Like the proverbial dead fish that rots first from the head, British society began to decay from the top; so our description of the situation must begin with the aristocracy.

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

If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.

Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.

Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.

I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defined. And then, I ate my own wickedness.

Outliving beauty's outward with a mind that doth renew swifter than blood decays.