Decay Quotes - Page 5

• Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.

  George Whitefield

  Religious, Together, May

  George Whitefield (2013). “Sermons of George Whitefield”, p.48, Hendrickson Publishers

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• The real world is simply too terrible to admit. it tells man that he is a small trembling animal who will someday decay and die. Culture changes all of this,makes man seem important,vital to the universe. immortal in some ways

  Ernest Becker

  Real, Men, Animal

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• Things begin, things decay, and you've got to find a way to be okay.

  Jon Brion

  Way, Chaos, Okay

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• Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

  Wim Wenders

  Movie, Real, Criticism

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

  Ezra Pound

  Literature, Rehabilitation, Decline

  Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.32, New Directions Publishing

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• Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

  Horace

  Moving, Exercise, Effort

  "The Molecular Biology of Cancer: A Bridge from Bench to Bedside". Book by Stella Pelengaris, p. 376, March 5, 2013.

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• Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.

  Ann Coulter

  Soccer, Growing, Moral

  "America’s Favorite National Pastime: Hating Soccer". www.anncoulter.com. June 25, 2014.

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• The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Angel, Hands

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• Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Obvious Things, Civilization, Forget

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Transformation, Thee, All Things

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1906). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus”

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• Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Wind, Roots, Tree

  "Jane Eyre". Book by Charlotte Bronte, October 16, 1847.

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• This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

  H. G. Wells

  Art, Fate, Energy

  H. G. Wells (2016). “The Time Machine: Classic Fantasy Action and Adventure Mystery Horror Humour Science fiction comic Art”, p.31, Fantasia Publish

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• In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

  Plutarch

  Life, Change, Fate

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• The first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland environment. It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust himself to changing conditions, the lack of which would have meant swift and terrible death. It marked, further, the decay or going to pieces of his moral nature, a vain thing and a handicap in the ruthless struggle for existence.

  Jack London

  Struggle, Pieces, Bucks

  Jack London (2009). “The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories”, p.21, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

  Aldous Huxley

  Death, Dying, Pieces

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

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• Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.

  Albert Einstein

  Animal, Doe

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.124, Princeton University Press

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• Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Food, Thinking, Sheep

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• All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

  Tacitus

  Growth, Body, Rapids

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• The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is every day carried up and is dissolved into vapour and rises to the upper region, where it is condensed again by the cold and so returns to the earth. This, as we have said before, is the regular course of nature.

  Aristotle

  Rain, Moving, Agency

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.1272, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements pall with frequent repetition, his occasional rage sinks by decay of strength into peevishness; that peevishness, for want of novelty and variety, becomes habitual; the world falls off from around him, and he is left, as Homer expresses it, to devour his own heart in solitude and contempt.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Fall, Heart, Men

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• Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.

  Blaise Pascal

  Children, Parent, Firsts

  Blaise Pascal (1828). “Thoughts on religion, and other subjects”, p.112

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• There is nothing can equal the tender hours
  When life is first in bloom,
  When the heart like a bee, in a wild of flowers,
  Finds everywhere perfume;
  When the present is all and it questions not
  If those flowers shall pass away,
  But pleased with its own delightful lot,
  Dreams never of decay.

  Henry George Bohn

  Dream, Flower, Heart

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• All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence!

  Gautama Buddha

  Excellence, Diligence, Strive

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• What has soul in it differs from what has not, in that the former displays life. Now this word has more than one sense, and provided any one alone of these is found in a thing we say that thing is living. Living, that is, may mean thinking or perception or local movement and rest, or movement in the sense of nutrition, decay and growth. Hence we think of plants also as living, for they are observed to possess in themselves an originative power through which they increase or decrease in all spatial directions.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Thinking, Soul

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, p.1083, Catholic Way Publishing

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• And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.

  George MacDonald

  Growth, Growing

  "Within and Without: A Dramatic Poem".

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