Top 100 Quotes About Rot
#1. It's all rot that they put in the war-news about the good humour of the troops, how they are arranging dances almost before they are out of the front-line. We don't act like that because we are in a good humour: we are in a good humour because otherwise we should go to pieces.
Erich Maria Remarque
#2. The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
Hunter S. Thompson
#3. Bear in mind that everything that exists is already fraying at the edges, and in transition, subject to fragmentation and to rot. Or that everything was born to die.
Marcus Aurelius
#4. Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#5. They said that dying was just like going to sleep, although of course if you weren't careful bits of you could rot and drop off.
Terry Pratchett
#6. Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.
Jim Carrey
#7. Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it.
Hannah More
#8. Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.
Frantz Fanon
#9. I care not for the body which may rot. Yet, for the transgression of the spirit, of moral ethics, of life, liberty and the soul itself, I must and shall cross the line of battle or lose the very reason not to.
The Great Pacifist
#10. He's not yet realized that by giving away nothing but barefaced lies he's come to wither and rot inside. But she's still looking for him into the void of his cold heart.
Llarjme
#11. Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.
Richard Whately
#12. It's terrible to lie in chains,
To rot in dungeon deep,
But it's still worse, when you are free
To sleep, and sleep, and sleep.
Taras Shevchenko
#13. With us it ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don't have to sit in no bar room blowin' in our jack jus' because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us.
John Steinbeck
#14. I don't mind people talking rot in my presence, but it must not be utter rot.
P.G. Wodehouse
#15. Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable as a compensating power. Not a blade of grass that withers, or the ugliest weed that is flung away to rot and die, but reproduces something.
Thomas Chalmers
#16. Man was matter. Drop him out of a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage.
Joseph Heller
#17. He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure.
Harry Crews
#18. I swear, Daimons or not, if you don't behave, Z, I'm going to send you to Antarctica and leave you there to rot. (Acheron)
Ooo. I'm terrified. Those killer penguins and hairy seals are really scary. (Zarek)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#19. There are three kinds of souls, three kinds of prayers. One: I am a bow in your hands, Lord. Draw me lest I rot. Two: Do not overdraw me, Lord. I shall break. Three: Overdraw me, and who cares if I break! Choose!
Nikos Kazantzakis
#20. Concrete can rot. It turns green and black before crumbling away.
Maybe only people from Congo know that.
Eliot Schrefer
#21. In Europe one gets used to doing nothing. You sit on your ass and whine all day. You get contaminated. You rot.
Henry Miller
#22. However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian urban centres with a troubling spill-over into many of our more rural areas.
Alex Campbell
#23. There is no problem with the wider culture that you cannot see in the spades in the Christian Church. The rot is in us, and not simple out there. And Christians are making a great mistake by turning everything into culture wars. It's a much deeper crisis.
Os Guinness
#24. Don't talk rot, Whitney," said Rainsford. "You're a big-game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels?
Richard Connell
#25. The daily standard of unlivability isn't news. So when the exceptional passes, everything is silent and everything continues to rot.
Elena Ferrante
#26. One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#27. I know we're gathered here for a very solemn occasion. Poor Great-Uncle Frankie has gone the way of the dodo bird, soon to rot in peace. Um, I mean, rest in peace.
- Dak
James Dashner
#28. I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon.
Orson Welles
#29. You can rot here without feeling it.
John Rechy
#30. The earth's lungs, coated in green ooze and thaw, breathed out blossom-scent and sour rot and fungus-must, wet and warm and aware, where before the air had been cold and blind, remote as the moon.
Margo Lanagan
#31. 'I shall vomit,' said Hugh, 'if you persist in pestering me with all that odious rot.'
Vladimir Nabokov
#32. To THOSE who want to lift this nation from the dungheap of history, the past does not matter - only the present, the awareness of the deadening rot which surrounds and suffocates us, and what we must do to vanquish it.
F. Sionil Jose
#33. Well enough. I won't ask you if your love is true or any of that rot - it's not my place to judge. After all, I'm a naked woman chained to a wall; I've no business questioning the lifestyles of wine-makers or anyone else.
Catherynne M Valente
#34. Autumn is an honest month; it does not delude man like spring does! It shows him the dark face of life, the tragedy, the rot, the separation, the sadness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#35. Brunetti remembered when they found themselves with an excessive catch, they chose to give it away, rather than watch it rot.
Donna Leon
#36. Why did women always believe that talking about a problem would fix it? Some issues were corpses. Hot air made them fester and rot and spread their disease to everything else. Better to bury it and move on.
Brent Weeks
#37. As the tissues of the body fester and rot under X rays, so under the sun fester and rot Anglo-Saxonism and Teutonism and Scandinavianism if left too long beneath its influence.
Compton Mackenzie
#38. No, we wern't telling Teresa. Because she had that same smell on her skin too, that dead hoocow's awful sterile rot, and until I had some answers to throw in her face I was pretending everything was fine.
Joan Frances Turner
#39. And I wonder
if my family knows
that when we're not careful
not quick enough
things will fall to rot and ruin
so far
so badly
they can't be saved
Kelsey Sutton
#40. The absence of hope can rot a society from within.
Barack Obama
#41. The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.
James Russell Lowell
#43. Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.
Marianne Moore
#44. O, vile! These tauntauns have an awful stench outside, But nothing did I know of wretchedness, Disgusting rot, and sick'ning filth till this New smell hath made attack upon my nose.
Ian Doescher
#45. To find why this sheep's wool was red; and the prize was awarded to a learned man of the North, who demonstrated by A plus B minus C divided by Z, that the sheep must be red, and die of the rot.
Voltaire
#46. He could smell her morality, the sweet rot of corruption
Cassandra Clare
#47. Sit and spin 'til you rot on the cosmic utensil.
Frank Zappa
#49. There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the cause of supporting a prejudice, unfounded assertions, and even sentimental rot and drivel, have run riot to such an extent as here.
Helen Thompson Woolley
#50. Why can't we just loosen our belts, take off our heels, and cheerfully rot, like the boys?
Caitlin Moran
#51. Necessity is what impels men to take action, and once necessity is gone, only rot and decay are left
Niccolo Machiavelli
#52. Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
Plotinus
#53. Average reality begins to rot and stink as soon as the act of individual creation ceases to animate a subjectively perceived texture.
Vladimir Nabokov
#54. This late dissension grown betwixt the peers
Burns under feigned ashes of forg'd love,
And will at last break out into a flame:
As festered members rot but by degree,
Till bones and flesh and sinews fall away,
So will this base and envious discord breed.
William Shakespeare
#55. Ah realise now thit death is usually a process, rather than an
event. People generally die by degrees, incrementally. They rot away slowly in homes and hoespitals,
or places like this.
Irvine Welsh
#56. I would rather sail and hit a rock
than sit and rot in dry dock.
Lester Roloff
#57. War is always more complex. Economics, history, religion all have a role, but not for the ones dodging the bullets. They just get blown around like seeds in the wind until the city folk with calculators and Swiss bank accounts stop talking rot from a bunker under a mountain.
Bill Carter
#58. Is he well educated?"
"Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day of his life, same as father. He says it is all rot about 'finishing' your education. You never do. You learn more important things each day ...
Gene Stratton-Porter
#59. The worst lies are almost always silence - or else truth, tainted with just enough deception to rot it to the core.
Jim Butcher
#60. but never let them think there's an end to what you have, for then you will be thrown into the worst hole they have and left to rot. There
Louis L'Amour
#61. A grape may become a raisin, and taste the sweeter for it, but even a raisin rot on the vine, if you do nothing for it.
E.J. Patten
#62. This is beautiful." "If you're Ronald Reagan, I guess." "The idea of it, I mean. The beauty hidden within the rot." "Sure. That's what I meant, too." I
Richard Kadrey
#64. Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.
Ernest Becker
#65. Then, brothers, it came. Oh, bliss, bliss and heaven. I lay all nagoy to the ceiling, my gulliver on my rookers on the pillow, glazzies closed, rot open in bliss, slooshying the sluice of lovely sounds. Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh.
Anthony Burgess
#66. This is the way it was in Yates County. Bald Girls. Wild boys formed from math. Geniuses all around, just waiting to be discovered, or waiting to rot in trailers behind their parents' barns, die penniless, mourned only by the Amish from whom they bought all those eggs.
Lydia Netzer
#67. Whatever wind fails to escape the Volroy through its many upstairs windows falls down into the cells to rot.
Kendare Blake
#68. The cliche that sea dry up and rocks rot away, but the heart never changes is nothing but a beautiful fantasy.
Mo Yan
#69. It was no ape, neither was it a man. It was some shambling horror spawned in the mysterious, nameless jungles of the south, where strange life teemed in the reeking rot without the dominance of man, and drums thundered in temples that had never known the tread of a human foot.
Robert E. Howard
#70. But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded.
Jessie Burton
#71. This story is about stink, after all, a story about rot, about how life grows out of the most fetid-smelling places. I leaned into the wall of the coiled cabin, snail, the body curled in upon itself, spine coiled, a snake lying in wait.
Larissa Lai
#72. Once off the bush The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour. I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot. Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not. -Blackberry picking
Seamus Heaney
#73. In my family, you can rot to hell on the inside as long as you're flawless on the outside, which is really sick, but also hard to unlearn.
Laura Wiess
#74. If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil.
George R R Martin
#75. Guilt and fear are a kind of rot. It spreads unless it's cleaned. And there's only one way to do that.
Lee Goldberg
#76. Your hands are not made to type out memos. Or put paper through fax machines. Or hold a phone up while you talk to people you dislike. One hundred years from now, your hands will rot like dust in your grave. You have to make wonderful use of those hands now. Kiss your hands so they can make magic.
James Altucher
#77. This was a better place. Not just this new town, but this new world. So much brighter and cleaner than the old world of rot and ruin, fire and ash.
Jonathan Maberry
#78. It would seem this is the gift modernity has bestowed upon our generation: the practice of "dating," an awkward procedure where a man and a woman find themselves talking rot to each other in a darkened room. If it were up to me, I would say modernity can keep it, as I want no part.
Suzanne Rindell
#79. Wow. This place looks classy. The smell of fertilizer and rot is really in this season. Remind me, what are we doing here?" she asked looking at him with a coy smile. "Did we come for bait?
Dennis Sharpe
#80. You can tell the idyllic nature of a family by the upkeep of its picnic table. Ours is its own indictment. We are splintering and peeling. We rot.
Peter Hedges
#81. Respect for authority is a disease, no different from the Venusian Gook Rot.
B.A. Santamaria
#83. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. - Jack London
Jack London
#84. Opposing sports teams shake hands when the game is over. Dead soldiers just rot.
Dan Sheehan
#85. My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.
Richard Dawkins
#86. That's all YOU know,' said Digory. 'It's because you're a girl. Girls never want to know anything but gossip and rot about people getting engaged.
C.S. Lewis
#87. You know the expression, "It's not personal; it's business." We sneer at such rot. All business is personal, all the time.
Chris Kilham
#88. Delicious foods are drugs that will inflame the gut and rot the bones, but there is no harm if one eats moderately. Delightful things are all purveyors of destruction and decadence, but there is no regret if one enjoys them moderately.
Zicheng Hong
#89. This common body, like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, to rot itself with motion
William Shakespeare
#91. The tender spring upon thy tempting lip
Shows thee unripe; yet mayst thou well be tasted:
Make use of time, let not advantage slip;
Beauty within itself should not be wasted:
Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime
Rot and consume themselves in little time.
William Shakespeare
#92. It's true I live on hope. Why shouldn't I? Every day I see her beauty while you rot in hell. You will tell me that I'm deluded but we are all deluded in some way. The question is which is the best delusion.
Danny Scheinmann
#93. They say this fruit be like unto the world / So sweet. Or like, say I, the heart of man / So red without and yet within, unclue'd / We find the worm, the rot, the flaw. / However glows his bloom the bite / Proves many a man be rotten at the core.
Terry Pratchett
#94. Jokes rot. They're not like songs. I always envy singers - Sting is always going to sing 'Roxanne'. But people want to hear new jokes. I've written jokes as good as 'Roxanne', I believe. But I can't tell them again.
Chris Rock
#95. It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.
Brigitte Bardot
#96. It's terribly important for everyone, at any age, to live to his full potential. Otherwise a kind of dry rot sets in, a rust, a disintegration of personality,
Dorothy Gilman
#97. You can have your youth It'll rot before your eyes
Bob Dylan
#100. Stories are like snapshots, pictures snatched out of time, with clean hard edges. But this was life, and life always begins and ends in a bloody muddle, womb to tomb, just one big mess, a can of worms left to rot in the sun.
James Crumley
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