Decay Quotes

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'

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

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay.

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

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

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay.

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.

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.