Decay Quotes

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Jean-Luc Godard

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Progress, this great heresy of decay.

Charles Baudelaire

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Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Ambrose Bierce

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Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Vladimir Lenin

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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Robert Browning

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All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Theodor W. Adorno

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Doris Day

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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Oliver Goldsmith

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If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay.

Jane Byrne

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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

Francesca Annis

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An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

Jane Smiley

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Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

C. Northcote Parkinson

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Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

George MacDonald

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The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, we shrink and shrivel.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

George Washington Cable

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