Rotting Quotes - Page 6

• I'm a phallus in pigtails, and there's blood on my nose, and my tissue is rotting where the rats chew my bones. And my eye sockets empty, see nothing but pain, I keep having this brainstorm about twelve times a day.

  David Bowie

  Pain, Eye, Blood

  Song: Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed, Album: Space Oddity

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• We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stone—crumbling in death rather than rotting, trapped inside an immobile prison of stone rather than reduced to immaterial souls like those that now rattled within our skulls. The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisions—one has to live with them, and we try.

  Ekaterina Sedia

  Regret, Skulls, Decision

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• The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make still more gigantic planes, still heavier bombs and, at the same time, prefabricated houses for reconstruction? Why should millions be spent daily on the war and yet there's not a penny available for medical services, artists, or for poor people? Why do some people have to starve, while there are surpluses rotting in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?

  Anne Frank

  Crazy, War, Artist

  Anne Frank (1989). “The diary of a young girl”, Pocket

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• I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.

  Anne Lamott

  Sweet, Glasses, Smell

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.10, Anchor

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• An aching tooth is better out than in.
  To lose a rotting member is a gain.

  Richard Baxter

  Funny, Dental Work, Teeth

  Poetical Fragments 'Man'

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• Not everyone is okay with living like an open wound. But the thing about open wounds is that, well, you aren't ignoring it. You're healing; the fresh air can get to it. It's honest. You aren't hiding who you are. You aren't rotting. People can give you advice on how to heal without scarring badly. But on the other hand there are some people who'll feel uncomfortable around you. Some will even point and laugh. But we all have wounds.

  Warsan Shire

  Healing, Air, Hands

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• A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth. Before long, since he does not contribute to the benefit of his brethren, he will become a danger and a sorrow to them. Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Long, Sorrow

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• As I look around, I get this sinking feeling that we're off track, that there's something sick in the soul of our country. I examine the fruit that's hanging on the tree of America, and I can see that it's rotting. And that concerns me deeply.

  Kirk Cameron

  Country, Sinking Feeling, America

  "Kirk Cameron speaks at CPAC" by Caitlin MvDevitt, www.politico.com. February 9, 2012.

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• I got dead bodies rotting in my Benz trunk. Trunk of funk, I call it.

  Bushwick Bill

  Order, Law, Body

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• Fruit often ends up rotting in the crisper drawer. Well, that's the wrong place to put it. Out of sight, out of mind. The kids all know where the junk-food shelf is. Make the fruit that easy to get to. Put a big huge bowl of fruit on the counter.

  Tyler Florence

  Kids, Sight, Mind

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