Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.
All things are subject to decay and change.
Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just as any period decays in our minds, the things of that period should decay too, and in that way they're preserved for a while in the few hearts like mine that react to them. Trying to preserve a century by keeping its relics up to date is like keeping a dying man alive by stimulants.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
What people love about life is its miraculous beauty; what they hate about death is the loss and decay around it. Yet losing is not losing, and decay turns into beauty, as beauty turns back into decay. We are breathed in, breathed out. Therefore all you need is to understand the one breath that makes up the world.
Time is the speed at which the past decays.
There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.
Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.
Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away.
EACH DAY OF HUMAN life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each moment is etched with nature’s grand design-do not try to deny or oppose the cosmic order of things.
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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.
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.
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.
Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends
or simply: