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Tag Name "Decay" (311)

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Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.
Henry David Thoreau
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Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both.
Anne Roiphe
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I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays.
Carmen Laforet
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Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.
Alfred North Whitehead
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She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual decay, death, and rebirth illicit and clashing with the human world.
Jerzy Kosinski
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson
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Flee sloth for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
Cato the Younger
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I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.
Allen Ginsberg
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The beginning is always so fine!! But decay soon follows. A degeneration into the tired old situation. The rot sets in. This way, there is only the beauty of the start!
Jhonen Vasquez
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People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.
Hector Hugh Munro
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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
Charles Caleb Colton
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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.
Ambrose Bierce
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, as we too may have been somewhat to blame.
Chief Seattle
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Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.
Andy Goldsworthy
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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of earth cultivated: part will be tillage, but the greater part will be meadow and forest, not only serving an immediate use, but preparing a mould against a distant future, by the annual decay of the vegetation which it supports.
Henry David Thoreau
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Everything seems beautiful because you don't understand. Those flying fish, they're not leaping for joy, they're jumping in terror. Bigger fish want to eat them. That luminous water, it takes its gleam from millions of tiny dead bodies, the glitter of putrescence. There's no beauty here, only death and decay.
Curt Siodmak
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Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.
Ann Coulter
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All decays begin in the closet no heart thrives with out much secret converse with God, and nothing will make amends for the want of it.
John Berridge
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Change and decay in all around I see.
Henry Francis Lyte
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I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.
David LaChapelle
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The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.
John C. Calhoun
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I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
Henry Miller
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