Quotes by Decay We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces. Henry W. Kendall decayfacesorder I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. Henry Miller decaygrowthexpression Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.' Heraclitus strifemixturesdecay So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays. Homer decaystealingpeace The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native fruit which for the most part went to the cider mill. But since the temperance reform and the general introduction of grafted fruit, no wild apples, such as I see everywhere in deserted pastures, and where the woods have grown up among them, are set out. I fear that he who walks over these hills a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Henry David Thoreau ciderdecayapples On every thing are traced decay and change. Look! how the shifting seasons slip away. Isaac McLellan decaychangelooks Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last. Isaac Rosenberg decaygrowthtime Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay. Isaac Watts decaysecretspiritual All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay. Immanuel Kant decaycultureart The essence of decay is inactivity. Jack LaLanne inactivitydecayessence If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down. Jack Valenti decaymoralmovie The first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland environment. It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust himself to changing conditions, the lack of which would have meant swift and terrible death. It marked, further, the decay or going to pieces of his moral nature, a vain thing and a handicap in the ruthless struggle for existence. Jack London decaypiecesstruggle The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth. Henry David Thoreau decaygrowthlife It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay. James F. Cooper decayfateall-things When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it. James Norman Hall decaysufferingcivilization 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! James Sharp decayprivilegefall Aging is a staircase - the upward ascension of the human spirit, bringing us into wisdom, wholeness and authenticity. As you may know, the entire world operates on a universal law: entropy, the second law of thermodynamics. Entropy means that everything in the world, everything, is in a state of decline and decay, the arch. There's only one exception to this universal law, and that is the human spirit, which can continue to evolve upwards. Jane Fonda decaylawmean An urban novelist never minds a little decay. Jane Smiley decaynovelistsmind In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity. Jean-Jacques Rousseau punishmentdecaycriminals We're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of the decay. Jean Houston decayculturepeople«1234567891011»
