Decay Quotes

Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader in human space exploration.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

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.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

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

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.

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

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.