Top Decay Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Decay quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of John Burroughs
Without death and decay, how could life go on?
- John Burroughs
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Image of Polybius
All things are subject to decay and change.
- Polybius
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Image of Leonid Andreyev
All perishes, all decays, all is born again.
- Leonid Andreyev
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Image of Karen Thompson Walker
Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.
- Karen Thompson Walker
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Image of Henry Francis Lyte
Change and decay in all around I see.
- Henry Francis Lyte
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Image of Jon Brion
Things begin, things decay, and you've got to find a way to be okay.
- Jon Brion
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Image of Allen Ginsberg
I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.
- Allen Ginsberg
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Image of Leonardo Drew
Soap, a cleaning product, can be made from decay.
- Leonardo Drew
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Image of Antoine Rivarol
Mutability is written upon all things.
- Antoine Rivarol
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Image of Ovid
Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.
- Ovid
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Image of Heraclitus
Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'
- Heraclitus
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Image of Gregory Maguire
Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly.
- Gregory Maguire
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Image of Rebecca Solnit
The process of transformation consists mostly of decay.
- Rebecca Solnit
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Image of Yukio Mishima
...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.
- Yukio Mishima
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Image of Norman Vincent Peale
When learning stops, decay sets in.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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Image of Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.
- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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Image of Winston Churchill
If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth.
- Winston Churchill
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Image of Richard M. Weaver
Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.
- Richard M. Weaver
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Image of Gautama Buddha
We begin to die from the moment we are born, for birth is the cause of death. The nature of decay is inherent in youth, the nature of sickness is inherent in health, in the midst of life we are verily in death.
- Gautama Buddha
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Image of Gautama Buddha
All composite things decay. Strive diligently.
- Gautama Buddha
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Image of John Donne
All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay.
- John Donne
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Image of Ellen Glasgow
nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
- Ellen Glasgow
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Image of Martin Heidegger
Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce what exists and thus open a path for a new formation of the world.
- Martin Heidegger
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Image of Marcus Aurelius
All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.
- Marcus Aurelius
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Image of John Maynard Keynes
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
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Image of Samuel Johnson
The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.
- Samuel Johnson
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Image of C. S. Lewis
When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes
- C. S. Lewis
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Image of Masashi Kishimoto
All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru
- Masashi Kishimoto
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