Decay Quotes

Decay is not an end, but a necessary transformation, a slow symphony of elements returning to their origin. Everything in existence follows this inevitable path, from a speck of dust to the mightiest empires, from falling leaves to dying stars. This profound truth, beautifully articulated in these compelling quotes, reminds us that every beginning carries within it the seed of its end, and that beauty can lie even in fading, in demise, and in every particle of dust returning to dust.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes....
Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: O rose, who dares to name thee?No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet,But pale, and hard, and dr...
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of ...
Quote by George Orwell: Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial...
Quote by William Butler Yeats: yet it seemsLife scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind,Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams,...
Quote by Leonardo da Vinci: O time, swift robber of all created things, how many kings, how many nations hast thou undone, and h...
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the who...
Quote by William Shakespeare: When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometim...
Quote by Ray Bradbury: His flesh took paleness from his bones....
Quote by Charles Dickens: Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with ...
Quote by William Butler Yeats: Things thought too long can be no longer thought, For beauty dies of beauty, worth of worth, And anc...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love t...
Quote by William Butler Yeats: We are fastened to a dying animal....
Quote by Ernest Hemingway: Until the dead are buried they change somewhat in appearance each day. The color change in Caucasian...
Quote by William Shakespeare: When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony....
Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky: What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises ...
Quote by Leonardo da Vinci: O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinklin...
Quote by Charles Dickens: I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and ...
Quote by Charles Dickens: The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships ...
Quote by Gabriel García Márquez: Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by da...
Quote by William Shakespeare: Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds....
Quote by Charles Dickens: Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery rui...
Quote by Immanuel Kant: All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture ...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: We live ruins amid ruins....
Quote by George Orwell: To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay....
Quote by Charles Dickens: He says-him as was here just now-'When Tom shut up the house, mate, to go to rack, the beds was left...
Quote by Charles Dickens: There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically...
Quote by Plato: Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape,...
Quote by Gabriel García Márquez: It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still ...
Quote by Barack Obama: The absence of hope can rot a society from within....
Quote by George Bernard Shaw: I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes ...
Quote by Heraclitus: Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung....