Growth Decay Quotes

#1. Nothing at all can prevent the universal process of birth, growth, decay, and death.

Joseph Goldstein

#2. EACH DAY OF HUMAN life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each moment is etched with nature's grand design-do not try to deny or oppose the cosmic order of things.

Morihei Ueshiba

#3. Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits, and spermatozoa and ovaries into fishy little plants growing babyward if we take no care to stop them.

Alasdair Gray

#4. To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor.

Paul A. Baran

#5. The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world, always spinning.

Frederick Lenz

#7. States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.

Walter Savage Landor

#8. Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age.

Mason Cooley

#9. He would have lived countless times over the life of the individual, of the family, tribe and people, and he would possess the living sense of the rhythm of growth, flowering and decay.

C. G. Jung

#10. Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion.

Frederick Lenz

#11. The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

Wendell Berry

#12. If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in grace according to his thoughts and meditations upon the person of Christ, and the glory of Christ's Kingdom, and of His love.

John Owen

#13. And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing towards decay.

George MacDonald

#14. As a living creature I am part of two kinds of forces- growth and decay, sprouting and withering, living and dying- and at any given moment of our lives, each one of us is actively located somewhere along a continuum between these two forces.

Audre Lorde

#15. Decline is also a form of voluptuousness, just like growth. Autumn is just as sensual as springtime. There is as much greatness in dying as in procreation.

Iwan Goll

#16. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive, that you understand going to die, and you live a better life because of it.

Mitch Albom

#17. Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.

Isaac Rosenberg

#18. Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy.

Pankaj Mishra

#19. We forbid growth and therefore decay. Ambition, and therefore despair. Because each is only the warped relection of the other.

Catherine Fisher

#20. Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.

James Russell Lowell

#21. All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

Tacitus

#22. Rust may never sleep, but then, neither does moss.

Brian Awehali

#23. The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay.

Swami Vivekananda

#24. Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg'd, make thy accounts agree.

George Herbert

#25. Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls.

Anne Rice

#26. I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

Henry Miller