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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.
- Jean Baptiste Massillon
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.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Decay is inherent in all component things! Work out your salvation with diligence.
- Anonymous
All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf.
- Anonymous
She focused on the words: "He gives moisture to the dead.
- Frank Herbert
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
- John Calvin
All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay...
- John Donne
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.
- Samuel Johnson
And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.
- Oscar Wilde
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.
- St. John Chrysostom
Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.
- Edith Wharton
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.
- Edmund Burke