Quotes About Decomposing

#1. Agitated on the inside by disgust but with nothing showing in their immobile features, absolutely still, as unmoving as those of landscapes, of photographs, of summer sunsets, nothing showing in their ever-horizontal features, decomposing silently in the Formica chairs.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

#2. Bad news is, they've figured out I'm alive. Worse news, I can't be sure about them. Their decomposing stench burns my throat. They don't sound very big. Maybe they're pygmy zombies.

A.G. Howard

#3. Gavin saw a grave purely as a marker for the place where a corpse was decomposing; a nasty thought, yet people took it into their heads to visit and bring flowers, as though it might yet recover.

J.K. Rowling

#4. Today I share about my addiction and recovery journey as often as possible because I don't want to die all alone in a dark closet, shrouded in shame beside the decomposing skeletons I tried so desperately to hide. I want to live.

Shannon Egan

#5. If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture - that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves.

Edward Abbey

#6. Amazed, Fat said, "She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth?"
"Only to monsters," Dr. Stone said.

Philip K. Dick

#7. I'm slowly becoming a repository for decomposing sorrows, regrets, ignored injustice, and forgotten promises. I can still feel its stench. But when I get accustomed to it, I will call it experience.

Mesa Selimovic

#8. I could not discuss what had happened to me with anyone, I could not even admit it to myself; and, while I never thought about it, it remained, nevertheless, at the bottom of my mind, as still and as awful as a decomposing corpse. And it changed, it thickened, it soured the atmosphere of my mind.

James Baldwin

#9. When I drink a Glass of water, it's thick and crawling with life. My mouth leads to the interior of my body - a caldron of disease, germs, and perversions of biology. I don't exist individually. I'm made of millions of living creatures, eating each other, decomposing, eating each other.

Michael Gira

#10. What she had believed to be her future was now decomposing ten feet under the earth.

Antonio Scotto Di Carlo

#11. We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

Virginia Woolf

#12. When your friend is decomposing, surely you owe it to them to inhale their death. To do otherwise seems impossible prim.

Nick Harkaway

#13. Gamache wondered how low the bar was set when all a man had to do to attract a woman was not smell like decomposing bears.

Louise Penny

#14. It is difficult to put words to the smell of decomposing human. It is dense and cloying, sweet but not flower-sweet. Halfway between rotting fruit and rotting meat.

Mary Roach

#15. Because we've never encountered a decomposing body, we can only assume they are out to get us. It is no wonder there is a cultural fascination with zombies.

Caitlin Doughty

#16. There are only
two types of composers:
composing composers
and decomposing composers.

Lera Auerbach

#17. Her black brows, her reddish-tawny hair and the pure red and white of her complexion defied the searching decomposing radiance: she might have been some fabled creature whose home was in a beam of light.

Edith Wharton

#18. Pretty soon, I'll be decomposing into phosphorous, calcium, and so on. Who else will you find to tell you the truth? All that's left are the archives. Pieces of paper. And the truth is... I worked at an archive myself, I can tell you first hand: paper lies even more than people do.

Svetlana Alexievich

#19. I know you have the patience of a rapidly decomposing turd.

Mary E. Pearson

#20. A hand came out of the portal. On a surprising note - because everything else so far had been completely mundane - it wasn't decomposing.
A & E Kirk (2014-05-26). Drop Dead Demons: The Divinicus Nex Chronicles: Book 2 (Divinicus Nex Chronicles series) (p. 526). A&E Kirk. Kindle Edition.

A&E Kirk

#21. To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.

Fernando Pessoa

#22. Gold and silver grow, and so does every other kind of metal, the same as the hair upon my head, or the wheat in the field; they do not grow as fast, but they are all the time composing or decomposing

Brigham Young

#23. Upon closer scrutiny, however, you will discover that the decomposing tree trunk and rotting leaves not only give birth to new life, but are full of life themselves. Microorganisms are at work.

Eckhart Tolle

#24. To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.

Vivienne Westwood

#25. It is common knowledge that Belle women make hard men melt like butter in a pan. They are equally adept at reversing the process.

Paula Wall

#26. 'Intelligent Life' is kind of a companion piece to 'Safety Not Guaranteed.' Internally, it's a sci-fi romantic thriller.

Colin Trevorrow

#27. Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat.

Emily Dickinson

#28. Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting them hooked to such loans isn't.

Evgeny Morozov

#29. Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity.

Toba Beta

#30. I miss the Bay Area - the kind of laid-back lifestyle. Because in Hong Kong, you're going, like, 90 miles an hour, which is fun when you're young.

Daniel Wu

#31. This life's a long old road
We shouldn't have to walk alone
But if you find the right companion
You won't feel so worn out when you've grown
All life is precious
And every day's a prize
And sometimes you'll find an answer in the sky

Elton John

#32. I have some flamboyant outfits. It wouldn't be me if I didn't. But I'm married now. I'm not allowed to wear those outfits.

Hugh Douglas

#33. When you live in New York City, you run up a long list of things you've been meaning to do.

Willie Geist

#34. I loved him and he allowed it

Carrie Fisher

#35. Here are three things you should know about the God you serve: First, if He has called you to a work, His angels go before you, beside you, and behind you (Psalm 91:11).

Selected

#36. It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.

Robert Townsend