Dust And Decay Quotes

#1. Obviously, she thought, angling her head up to the second story, where filthy windows clouded with dust and decay seemed to transform into yawning faces with soulless eyes.

Jessica Lemmon

#2. Children close their ears to Advice but Open their eyes to example.
Even New Genx Moms close their ears to Advice but Open their eyes to realize their mistakes eventually.
Think, Act Wise before it's Late.

Ilaxi Patel

#3. They ate my humanity but no humanity in beginning humans Earth dust atoms

Clever microorganisms defy gods

But defy nothing

Phantom of truth

Beneath reality's facade

A.R. LaBaere

#4. If anything is endemic to Wyoming it is wind. This big room of space is swept out daily, leaving a bone yard of fossils, agates, and carcasses in every stage of decay. Though it was water that initially shaped the state, wind is the meticulous gardener, raising dust and pruning the sage.

Gretel Ehrlich

#5. Nothing ever begins when you think it does. You think you can trace something back to its roots but roots by definition never end. There's always something that came before: soil and water and seeds that were born of trees that were born of yet more seeds.

Meghan Daum

#6. Soup,"she said gruffly. "Nothing in the world that can't be made worse by facing it on an empty stomach. Even if the end's coming, there's always time to eat.

Charlie Fletcher

#7. Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human ... They don't hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for an evil they invent and then they want to kill it in us.

Marge Piercy

#8. A false-hearted lover is worse than a thief.
For a thief will just rob you and take what you have,
But a false-hearted lover will lead you to the grave.
And the grave will decay you and turn you to dust;
Not one boy in a hundred a poor girl can trust.

Ira Levin

#9. We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow old and they are forgotten, but new beliefs are born. The faith of the villages is dust now ... but it will grow again ... like the trees.

Chief Joseph

#10. The world's decay where the wind's hands have passed,
And my head, worn out with love, at rest
In my hands, and my hands full of dust.

Ted Hughes

#11. Socialism, Communism, clandestine societies, Bible societies ... pests of this sort must be destroyed by all means.

Pope Pius IX

#12. our bodies decay and we are just dust on the wind, our souls will dance together, enjoying the rest of eternity as a single entity." I

E.L. Todd

#13. My boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality
just as though one saw a flower change in a few seconds from a bud to decay and dust.

Alberto Moravia

#14. How could you sleep, knowing that any second your insides might begin to rot, your skin decay to slime, your brain shrivel to dust?"
"I fell asleep with my throat cut. I am a professional.

A.E. Marling

#15. Our windows were dark. The entrance was empty. I walked close to the left wall when I entered, but it was empty: just the stairs curving up into shadows echoes of feet in the sad generations like light dust upon the shadows, my feet waking them like dust, lightly to settle again. I

William Faulkner

#16. There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding stuff. It's like all the books are fighting against decay, against turning into dust, and at the same time fighting for attention.

Carrie Jones