103 Quotes About Decay

As a people we practiced excess. Excess in everything - pleasure, gaud display, endless toil, and death. Vagrant children slept in the alleys. Ragpicking was a profession. A conspicuously self-satisfied class of new wealth and weak intellect was all aglitter in a setting of mass misery.

The overall result was drift punctuated by protest.

All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

I'm trying to photograph an old offshore oil city that is lying in decay in the Caspian Sea, but I've been having a hard time getting there.

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and the establishment of the new, constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism

I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.

nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?