Top 71 Quotes About Decays
#1. Religion decays, the icon remains; a narrative is forgotten, yet its representation still magnetizes.
Julian Barnes
#6. To wonder where the mind goes after the brain decays is as silly as asking where the 70-miles-per-hour have gone after a speeding auto has crashed into a tree.
Frank Zindler
#7. Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly.
Gregory Maguire
#8. Rooms don't change, ornaments stand where you place them: only the heart decays.
Graham Greene
#9. If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
Ezra Pound
#10. False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
Richard Burton
#11. I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust
Vladimir Nabokov
#12. I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays ...
Carmen Laforet
#13. Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the artist grows; in a mass medium, the artist decays profitably.
Pauline Kael
#14. Yes, and shall do till the pangs of death shake him. Infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make the better fool.
William Shakespeare
#15. When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?
William Shakespeare
#16. half of its carbon 14 content decays into nitrogen 14 every 5,700 years, until
Jared Diamond
#17. We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
Lucretius
#18. What money creates, money preserves: if thy wealth decays, thy honor dies; it is but a slippery happiness which fortunes can give, and frowns can take; and not worth the owning which a night's fire can melt, or a rough sea can drown.
Francis Quarles
#19. The race of men is like the race of leaves. As one generation flourishes, another decays.
Homer
#20. When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings
Octavio Paz
#21. When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.
Adam Smith
#23. You really are a soul caged in a human body. The body decays but the soul is everlasting. Leave a legacy you can be proud of. Make a difference in this world now while you still can. Even after you have left your soul shall remain. You will still know.
Sohail Mahmood
#24. During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays.
James Cronin
#25. A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over.
Earl Warren
#26. Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Joseph Addison
#27. So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.
Homer
#28. The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God's organic will, which rules and moulds this universe.
James Anthony Froude
#29. But is it really you
behind the pretenses
beyond dust and distances
beneath the salt and the siren
announcements and ancient
impurities and decays
that claim to be you
W.S. Merwin
#30. Because of laziness the building decays, And through idleness of hands the house leaks.
Anonymous
#31. What an odd thing a stranger is. A stranger sleeping next to you. I listen to his breathing as if it were his entire life, with its hidden processes, the pulsing of the blood in the tissues, with thousands of tiny hidden decays and combustions, which together create and maintain him.
Mihail Sebastian
#32. Whether the proton decays or not is not known. To prove that it does not decay is very difficult.
Richard Feynman
#33. As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance.
Emily James Smith Putnam
#34. The porcelain rose is not as pretty as the one that decays.
Eric G. Wilson
#35. People always say be true to yourself. But that's misleading, because there are two selves. There's your short term self, and there's your long term self. And if you're only true to your short term self, your long term self slowly decays.
Brandon Stanton
#36. The morning comes, the night decays, the watchmen leave their stations.
William Blake
#37. The soul of an individual; your soul and my soul, is that part of us that is immortal. Your personality is that part of you that was born into time, that matures in time, or at least grows older in time and then decays and passes away.
Gary Zukav
#38. This mortal life decays apace How soon the bubble's broke Adam and all his numerous race Are Vanity and Smoke.
Nathaniel Philbrick
#39. In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.
Plutarch
#40. Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#41. All decays begin in the closet; no heart thrives with out much secret converse with God, and nothing will make amends for the want of it.
John Berridge
#42. This which you see before you is merely the Khat, 'that which decays', the physical body that contained the Khaibit or shadow body which has now dissolved, and the Ka, or 'double'.
Max Overton
#43. All dies! and not alone
The aspiring trees and men and grass;
The poets' forms of beauty pass,
And noblest deeds they are undone,
Even truth itself decays, and lo,
From truth's sad ashes pain and falsehood grow.
Herman Melville
#45. The fact that the outer man decays from day to day does not hurt the believers' true Life. It even helps its growth, because the inner
John Calvin
#46. The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it's under control.
Jethro Tull
#48. It's ironic to think that behaviors we consider neurotic are actually holding the word in place - but sooner or later whatever protection they offer decays.And it's so much work.So damn much work.
Stephen King
#49. When Natasha thinks about love, this is what she thinks: nothing lasts forever. Like hydrogen-7 or lithium-5 or boron-7, love has an infinitesimally small half-life that decays to nothing. And when its gone, its like it was never there at all.
Nicola Yoon
#50. For in this worldof ours where everything withers, everything perishes, there is a thing that decays, that crumbles into dust even more completely, leaving behind, still fewer traces of itself, than beauty: namely, grief.
Marcel Proust
#51. What fades, vanishes, decays, dies-that's what one must love.
Marty Rubin
#52. Death and change are busy ever, Man decays, and ages move; But His mercy waneth never; God is wisdom, God is love.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#53. But nothing else escapes all-ruinous time.
Earth's might decays, the might of men decays,
Honor grows cold, dishonor flourishes,
There is no constancy 'twixt friend and friend,
Or city and city; be it soon or late,
Sweet turns to bitter, hate once more to love.
Sophocles
#54. Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#55. You are one of the unfortunate ones whose body decays rapidly in the face of radiation poisoning. You hang your head over the toilet to vomit again and again, and die praying to the porcelain gods.
A.J. Lauer
#56. We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
Lucretius
#57. Every word wants to be taken literally, else it decays into a lie. But one mustn't take any word literally, else the world becomes a madhouse.
Robert Musil
#58. The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted.
Roman Payne
#59. Kids are excellent judges of character. Instincts are sharp before the cynicism of time decays them to the point they're null and void, useless to most adults. Or maybe we're just good at ignoring them the older we get. When
Kim Holden
#60. Many ask me whether pranayama ... postpones old age. Why worry about it? Death is certain. Let it come when it comes. Just keep working. The soul has no age. It doesn't die. Only the body decays. And yet, we must never forget the body, since it is the garden we must cherish and cultivate.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#62. We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.
Mick Farren
#63. If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful.
Henry David Thoreau
#64. It is Enterprise which build and improves the world's possessions ... If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
John Maynard Keynes
#65. Faith will falter if the authority of holy scripture is shaken; and if faith falters, love itself decays. For if someone lapses in his faith, he inevitably lapses in his love as well, since he cannot love what he does not believe to be true.
Augustine Of Hippo
#66. Sole and self-commanded works,
Fears not undermining days,
Grows by decays,
And, by the famous might that lurks
In reaction and recoil,
Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#67. When the violation of parity was discovered I began a series of electronic experiments to investigate parity violation in hyperon decays.
James Cronin
#68. Knowledge that is not being used for winning of further knowledge does not even remain- it decays and disappears.
J. D. Bernal
#69. Our life is like th' unstable wave, Our bloom of youth decays. Our joys are brief as lightning flash In summer's cloudy days, Our riches fleet as swift as thought; Faith in the One Supreme Alone will bear us o'er the gulfs Of Being's stormy stream.
Bhartrhari
#70. A man lives his life only when he is marching, i thought, when he keeps marching onwards at any price. When he stops marching onwards, he decays. The joy of life is the joy of the experience that comes from feeling one's own strength.
Jan Valtin
#71. When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.
James Norman Hall
