Best 266 quotes in «decay quotes» category

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

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 composite things decay. Strive diligently.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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

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

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.

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

Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.

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.

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

Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.

Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.

Do you realize that there is nothing in our genes that tells us when to die? There are genetic codes that tell us how to grow, how to breathe, and how to sleep, but NOTHING that tells us to die. So why do we? Because we literally rust and decay our bodies from the inside out with poor food and lifestyle choices.

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.