Best 266 quotes in «decay quotes» category

The world has enough deceit, decay, and despair; be different.

They ate my humanity but no humanity in beginning humans Earth dust atoms Clever microorganisms defy gods But defy nothing Phantom of truth Beneath reality's facade

They went through the last of the cars and then walked up the track to the locomotive and climbed up to the catwalk. Rust and scaling paint. They pushed into the cab and he blew away the ash from the engineer's seat and put the boy at the controls. The controls were very simple. Little to do but push the throttle lever forward. He made train noises and diesel horn noises but he wasn't sure what these might mean to the boy. After a while they just looked out through the silted glass to where the track curved away in the waste of weeds. If they saw different worlds what they knew was the same. That the train would sit there slowly decomposing for all eternity and that no train would ever run again

This was when the aging smokestacks atop the monumental factories began to shut off one by one. There were still plenty left running to keep the air over Detroit filled with that choking industrial aptitude, but you were never far from a hollowed-out factory, massive steel tubes on the roofs pointing up toward the sky with nothing left inside but dust and cobwebs. These giant pillars of concrete and metal now jutted high like extended index fingers from broken and casted hands, pointing toward something they would never touch.

Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.

Trying to keep up appearances is a signal of decay on the inside. Beware shallow living—in yourself and in others. It is only in the depths that life can thrive.

We were picking apart a problem in linguistic history and, as it were, examining close up the peak period of glory in the history of a language; in minuets we had traced the path which had taken it several centuries. And I was powerfully gripped by the vision of transitoriness: the way before our eyes such a complex, ancient, venerable organism, slowly built up over many generations, reaches its highest point, which already contains the germ of decay, and the whole intelligently articulated structure begins to droop, to degenerate, to totter towards its doom.

According to the yoga tradition, fear is the source of disease, decay - physical harm, when we're not thriving. And then finally, it's even the cause of death.

absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

A Christ upon paper, though it were the sacred pages of the Gospel, would have been as powerless to save Christendom as a Christ in fresco; not less feeble than the Countenance which, in the last stages of its decay, may be traced on the wall of the Refectory at Milan. A living Christ is the key to the phenomenon of Christian history.

All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

All composite things decay. Strive diligently.

All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence!

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.

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.

All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.

All good things vanish in less than a day, Peace, plenty, pleasure, suddenly decay Go not yet away, bright soul of the sad year, The earth is hell when you leav'st to appear.

All is more or less proper to serve as a common measure, in proportion as it is more or less in general use, of a more similar quality, and more easy to be divided into aliquot parts. All is more or less applicable for the purpose of a general pledge of exchange, in proportion as it is less susceptible of decay or alteration in quantity or quality.

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

Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the artist grows; in a mass medium, the artist decays profitably.

All solitary enjoyments, quickly fall, or become painful, so that, perhaps, no more insufferable misery can be conceived than that which must follow incommunicable privileges. Only imagine a human being condemned to perpetual youth while all around him decay and die. O, how sincerely would he call upon death for deliverance!

All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.

All things are subject to decay and change.

America is an empire in decay. But we don't have to lash out and do damage on the way down. We can reverse some of the damage we've done. It's possible.

Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.

A nation that encourages its people to spend more and save less promotes economic backwardness, social decay and its own financial doom.

And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.

An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance.

As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.

A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay.

Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.

Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled black across the sun.

Beware of suretyship for thy best friend; he that payeth another man's debt seeketh his own decay.

Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down in apathetic decay.

Bond investors are the vampires of the investment world. They love decay, recession - anything that leads to low inflation and the protection of the real value of their loans.

But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.

But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest Innocence away

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten when their noblest and most enduring works decay?

Churches may decay and perish; riches may make themselves wings and fly away-but he who builds their happiness on Christ crucified and union with Him by faith, that person is standing on a foundation which shall never be moved, and will know something of true peace.

Coffee, though a useful medicine, if drunk constantly will at length induce a decay of health , and hectic fever.