Top 61 Rotted Quotes
#1. The very notion of Great Britain's "greatness" is bound up with Empire,' the cultural theorist, Stuart Hall, once wrote: 'Euro-scepticism and littel Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose sugar flowed through English blood , and rotted English teeth.
Andrea Levy
#2. Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.
David Mitchell
#3. hand gripped his aspirator, but, oddly, his asthma had not closed down as it had on the day he fled from the hobo with the rotted nose. There was only that sense of standing still and watching the house slide stealthily
Stephen King
#4. Resentment and bitterness and old grudges were dead things, which rotted the hands that grasped them.
Winston Graham
#5. The room boasted many luxurious perks: a narrow bed, a rotted writing table, a stained wall, and a warped looking glass dangling on a rusty hook. I wondered if Mr. Kent recommended this hellish place so I would hurry back to his home.
Tarun Shanker
#6. If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy.
Jay McInerney
#7. We'd been so good together once, and then we'd rotted, like some corpse with a delayed burial.
Robyn Schneider
#8. The woman must look like the weathered side of a rotted fence post if she had to get a man this way.
Lindsey Brookes
#9. Baltimore is warm but pleasant ... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#10. Also consider that someday, when you're dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.
Chuck Palahniuk
#11. Days rotted away, disintegrating as each hour ticked by.
Elise Icten
#12. I could see where the faded ink intersected with its surface, half-absorbed but half not, rendering part of every word a mere whisper, the shadow left behind when all its thicker parts had rotted away.
Gemma Files
#13. Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#14. But the tacit undercurrent of her argument, as I felt it, was that Gallop's maternity had rotted her mind - besotted it with the narcissism that makes one think that an utterly ordinary experience shared by countless others is somehow unique, or uniquely interesting.
Maggie Nelson
#15. Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin.
Eduardo Galeano
#16. His body was so skeletal and his clothes so rotted that at first Bran took him for another corpse, a dead man propped up so long that the roots had grown over him, under him, and through him. What skin the corpse lord showed was white, save for a bloody blotch that crept up his neck onto his cheek.
George R R Martin
#18. Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
Ogden Nash
#19. From two ears that had grown side by side, the grains of one shot up joyfully into the light, projecting themselves into the future, and the grains from the other lay still in the earth and rotted; and nobody knew why.
Willa Cather
#20. I scuff the toe of my boot through the dirt, uncovering pine needles and half-rotted leaves shed by the cottonwood looming over me. My dirt, I think. My land.
Rae Carson
#21. The road whinnies and rears up. The sky gallops.
You are permanent within me in this chaos.
Somewhere deep in my mind you shine forever, without
moving, silent, like the angel awed by death,
or like the insect burying itself
in the rotted heart of a tree.
Miklos Radnoti
#22. If we had spoken before, you would not have been ripe. If we were to talk later, you would have rotted." He bites into the pear, savoring the taste. "Perfect. The right moment.
Paulo Coelho
#23. Some deaths were long, the decay so gradual the rotted end was nothing more than a sigh disappearing in the wind.
Others were quick, the abrupt cut of a life in mid-phrase leaving unanswered questions lingering like an unresolved harmony.
Emma Raveling
#24. Once there was a crow, it flew from the field to the hill, from hedge to hedge, and lived its life. then it died and rotted away. -what's the sense in it? there just ISN'T any!
Maxim Gorky
#25. Unable to forgive his own sins, unsatisfied with just the goodness of his heart, [Kerouac] would go on poisoning his body until it rotted around him, rotted, bloated, exploded, and fell away to let the pure Jack Kerouac, the saint, escape free at last - remembered only as a ghost.
Gerald Nicosia
#26. The books in the library were old, rotted, and there was no one left in the world to read them, but Kira made sure that none of them went into the fire. It seemed wrong.
Dan Wells
#27. The leaves, they run like mice, while birds peck at the ground. The wood has rotted in its bin. The grim axe has come round
Andre Alexis
#28. Only what we have lost forever do we possess forever. Only when we have drunk from the river of darkness can we truly see. Only when our legs have rotted off can we truly dance. As long as there is death, there is hope
Brother Theodore
#29. Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#30. Men were willing to wear the same clothes until they rotted off. Of
Robert Jordan
#31. We've known each other for a while," I said. "And our feelings just ... blossomed."
"Like fungus off rotted meat?" Josh snarked.
Diana Peterfreund
#32. A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.
Barbara Kingsolver
#33. There was a young lady named Mae
Who smoked without stopping all day;
As pack followed pack,
Her lungs first turned black,
And eventually rotted away.
Edward Gorey
#34. My soul may be stoned an' my luck may be rotted but I can still cuss a cuss
David Mitchell
#35. Spending my time living a life that looked great on Instagram, even as I rotted from the inside out since it gave me nothing of substance. All
Santino Hassell
#36. They had turned brown or blue and rotted. Brown and blue, the real colors of death. Who made black the color of death? Black was the color of night, and the potential of a cool breeze. Just
Will McIntosh
#37. At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.
Thomas Carlyle
#38. I had these fangs because I had jaundice when I was a kid and I was put on so many antibiotics that my teeth rotted. They had to cut them out. So I never had milk teeth. That was tough, you know, being in school having photos taken while I was pretending I had teeth. It was hideous.
Charlize Theron
#39. The only thing pretty about me is this godforsaken face. Everything else is rotted and ugly.
Caitlin Crews
#41. Something breaks under my boot, and I know before I look down what I'll see. Bones. Human skulls, femurs, ribs. The bones of otherthings as well, things that starved once the humans rotted away. Twisted spines, elongated jaws. Teeth.
Caitlin Kittredge
#42. If man was devolving into a psychotic pit of rotted plasma, [Karl] Rove would be the Alpha of such grime.
Larisa Alexandrovna
#43. The rolls of music that she herself had thrown into the trash with the pretext that they had rotted from dampness kept spinning and playing in her memory.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#44. Jack felt arousal spiking through him, clouding his mind with the wanting, wanting this man, all of him, black and tarry, rotted with disuse, glorious and fractured and spilling out of the cracks.
Jane Seville
#45. But believe me, there is beauty in it still. Truth. The light of freshness is buried in us and in every moment we breathe. It is there. Sometimes we are so encrusted, so rotted over with misery, bad situations, that we can't see it. Feel it. But it is there.
Alexs D. Pate
#46. My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off.
Isaac Marion
#47. If I didn't have a job, I might have stayed in bed until I rotted.
Claire Cook
#48. So go out and live real good and I promise you'll get beat up real bad. But, in a little while after you're dead, you'll be rotted away anyway. It's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.
Rich Mullins
#49. The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization ...
Ellen Glasgow
#50. This is the way I see it: if you get to know yourself really well, you might discover that deep down inside you're just a dirty, disgusting, and selfish piece of shit. What if my heart is all rotted out and corrupted? What about that? What am I suppose to do with that information? Just tell me that.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#51. I'd like to take a walk far back in the flinty hills and search for a souvenir, an old double-bitted ax stuck deep in the side of a white oak tree. I know the handle has long since rotted away with time. Perhaps the rusty frame of a coal-oil lantern still hangs there on the blade.
Wilson Rawls
#52. This world presses in on us from every side; it scatters fistfuls of our dust across the land
and takes bits and pieces of us as if to water the earth with our blood. What did we do? Why
have our souls rotted away?
Juan Rulfo
#53. History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.
Jill Lepore
#54. World rotted as we slid from light into darkness, getting ever nearer to the black chaos in which this middle world would end and the gods would fight and all love and light and laughter would dissolve.
Bernard Cornwell
#55. Kippenger suppressed a grin
I could've sworn he did. Without looking at anyone, he said, "Jargon wrote, 'You'll get nothing from me, ever, you dog-breath, rotted corpse of a king.'"
Vargas flowered at me. In return, I smiled and looked around the room, rather proud of myself for that.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#57. Patience is all that I have had for fifteen years, more grey hairs, rotted teeth and the continuing decline of my Kingdom my only reward. Patience, Magnar, has overdue debts to be paid.
(King Klonag)
Adrian G. Hilder
#58. I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
Henry Miller
#59. Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family
Oh how hideous it is
To see three generations of one house gathered together!
It is like an old tree with shoots,
And with some branches rotted and falling.
Ezra Pound
#60. Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community.
Joyce Carol Oates
#61. As a child I liked to piss on the carpet.
The carpet rotted and I blamed it on the dog.
Sarah Kane
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