Quotes about Decay

We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.

This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the form of houses and chimneys and riding smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.

Decay is inherent in all component things! Work out your salvation with diligence.

All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf.

She focused on the words: "He gives moisture to the dead.

The fact that the outer man decays from day to day does not hurt the believers' true Life. It even helps its growth, because the inner

All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay...

London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.

And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.

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

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

I was, indeed, aware that a jealous, ever-waking vigilance, to guard the treasure of our liberty, not only from invasion, but from decay and corruption, was our best wisdom and our first duty.