103 Quotes About Decay

The body never decays until death.

Only in death the body begins to decay.

Nothing seems so completely outmoded as the modernities of yesterday.

A lot of things in the house were broken or forgotten: the kitchen clock stopped, a closet doorknob coming off in my hand. The sparkly mess of flies I'd swept from the corners. It took sustained, constant living to ward off decay.

Poor little corpses! It was too bad they were dead. He couldn't play with them. Even though they really stank. He couldn't stand the smell. They deserved to die for smelling so bad.

In the endIt will not matterThat I was a woman. I am sure of it.The body is a source. Nothing more.There is a time for it. There is a certaintyAbout the way it seeks its own dissolution.

Anything with blood in it can probably go bad. Like meat. And it’s the blood that makes me worry. It carries things you don’t even know you got.

It is the smell of a million mould-blossomed pages, of a thousand decaying bindings, of a universe of dead words.

There's a certain deeper sort of beauty in the bleak. I see it that bleak is beautiful in part because it is too deathly and grim to fathom itself so.