103 Quotes About Decay

It was when a society became most distressed and antiquated that it would recreate an overwhelming fantasy of some Golden Age, a time when all was great and glorious, when people were more noble and causes more magnificent and honorable.

Decay is renewal--a perhaps contradictory sentence that nevertheless characterizes the aesthetically sustainable product, which ages gracefully and which possesses the germ of aesthetic decay as process. Decay equals renewal in the sense that aesthetic decay ensures the continued interest and fascination of the recipient.

As if in answer to her question, an odor of decay seeped through thee doorway from the darkened shop.Senescence, she thought. A beautiful word for what happened to all living things as they progressed toward death. Petals fading, leaves falling, stems beginning to rot.

[On the cities of Venice and Varanasi]Everywhere you look there is evidence of the enchantment of decay, of a kind of beauty that can only be revealed by a long, slow fading.

I knew …….I knew my secret had been unearthed and yet I had not known where it was buried. I had not the ranking to be privy to all their secrets.

Again see you not that even stones are conquered by time, that high towers fall and rocks moulder away, that shrines and idols of gods are worn down with decay, and that holy divinity cannot prolong the bounds of fate or struggle against the fixed laws of nature?

the ute was casting a shadow that no light was ever gonna make. A shadow doesn’t search for a drain like that. Shadows don’t have blowflies drowning in them.

Albański komunizm był jak twierdza, z której murów codziennie odpadało kilka kamieni. Albo jak podupadła drewniana chałupa z przegniłym dachem, pleśnią na ścianach i zalanymi fundamentami, która, o dziwo, ciągle jeszcze stoi, choć wiatr historii dmucha w jej ściany.

Doubt and despair, ... the sweet nibble of decay.