Best 266 quotes in «decay quotes» category

Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through the dim night of this immortal day.

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.

My way of life Is fall'n into the sear and yellow leaf.

Miami, in many ways, is a quintessentially American city. The juxtaposition of showy wealth with dire pennilessness, the tussle of glitz and decay doesnt come any more marked than here.

Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.

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.

Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.

Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out.

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.

...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

One thing and one thing alone keeps us from complete decay in this hour - the church, the true Church.

One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun.

One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it.

Now, with the general decay of religious faith , it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not.

People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay.

Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce what exists and thus open a path for a new formation of the world.

Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

Prosperity and abundance in a society depend on a certain type of person: the producer. Societies with few producers stagnate and decay, while nations with a large number of producers vibrantly grow-in wealth, freedom, power, influence and the pursuit of happiness.

Royalty is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

Soap, a cleaning product, can be made from decay.

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.

So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.

Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.

Sole and self-commanded works, Fears not undermining days, Grows by decays, And, by the famous might that lurks In reaction and recoil, Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil.

States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.

Sound: always in a state of emergence or decay

Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.

Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.

Surely revival delays because prayer decays.

Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.

That's the van? It looks like a rotting banana." This was undeniable - Eric had painted the van a neon shade of yellow, and it was blotched with dings and rust like splotches of decay.

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!

That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.

The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay.

The essence of decay is inactivity.

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.

The familiarities of the gaming-table contribute very much to the decay of politeness ... The pouts and quarrels that naturally arise from disputes must put an end to all complaisance, or even good will towards one another.