103 Quotes About Decay

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.

National studies are showing that early decay is on the increase, and that's shocking, actually. It's really a silent epidemic.

There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.

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.

Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy.

...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.

Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.

When learning stops, decay sets in.

Mutability is written upon all things.