Quotes and Sayings About Decay
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
See how time makes all grief decay.
-- Adelaide Anne ProcterSource : Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.218
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Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The woods decay, the woods decay and fall...
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
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Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.
-- Ann CoulterSource : "America’s Favorite National Pastime: Hating Soccer". www.anncoulter.com. June 25, 2014.
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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 -
The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.
-- B. H. Liddell Hart -
My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.
-- Bill Vaughan -
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[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.
-- C. S. Lewis -
The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.
-- Carl Sagan -
Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay.
-- Carl Sandburg -
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 LaforetSource : Carmen Laforet, Edith Grossman (2007). “Nada”
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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 -
I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.
-- David LaChapelle -
Time is the speed at which the past decays.
-- David Mitchell -
Sound: always in a state of emergence or decay
-- David Toop -
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Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.
-- E. F. Schumacher -
And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
-- Edmund Spenser -
irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
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nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
The porcelain rose is not as pretty as the one that decays.
-- Eric G. WilsonSource : Eric G. Wilson (2008). “Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy”, p.110, Macmillan
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People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
-- Eric Hoffer -
I sorrow that all fair things must decay.
-- Fitz-Greene Halleck -
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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
-- Francesca Annis -
Connection between life and radioactive nuclei is straightforward. No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity. And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.
-- Garik Israelian