Quotes by Decay All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. Theodor Adorno satiredecayblind The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay. Swami Vivekananda decaygrowthlaw 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. Thomas Nash decaysoulyears 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. Tibor Fischer decaycitiesway They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity. Tim O'Brien atmospheredecaysky We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay. Umberto Eco decaysweetbook Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city. Urs Fischer decaycitieslong 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. Viggo Mortensen decaydoneamerica Fascism is capitalism in decay. Vladimir Lenin decaypoliticspolitical I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust Vladimir Nabokov rustdecayweed States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay. Walter Savage Landor decaygrowthmen Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear. Walter Smith toildecaywork The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. Wendell Berry decaymaturitygrowth [H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely. Will Durant decayapathycivilization When your head is smashing into the concrete you don't have question about whether it's a real sensation. And ultimately, that's what's going to unmake us all - smashing up against the physical reality of death and decay, and being unmade. Will Sheff smashingdecayreal Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on. But the old orders should not be moved easily - certainly not at the mere whim or behest of youth. There must be clash and if youth hasn't enough force or fervor to produce the clash the world grows stale and stagnant and sour in decay. William Allen White decayordermoving Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of the fire-born moods, You pass not away. William Butler Yeats decaymountainfire A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty. William Congreve decayarguingbeauty 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. William Henry Hudson decaybelieveyears Death was in every sell of his body. He gave off a faint, greenish steam of decay. Lee imagined he would glow in the dark. William S. Burroughs decaybodydark«23456789101112»
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