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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. Mark Twain
John Donne quote: "All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath..."
All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay... John Donne
Graham Greene quote: "Rooms don't change, ornaments stand where you place them: only..."
Rooms don't change, ornaments stand where you place them: only the heart decays. Graham Greene
Oscar Wilde quote: "Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young,..."
Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old. Oscar Wilde
The perfume that her body exhaled was of the quality of that earth-flesh, fungi, which smells of captured dampness and yet is so dry, overcast with the odour of oil of amber, which is an inner malady of the sea, making her seem as if she had invaded a sleep incautious and entire. Her flesh was the texture of plant life, and beneath it one sensed a frame, broad, porous and sleep-worn, as if sleep were a decay fishing her beneath the visible surface. About her head there was an effulgence as of... Djuna Barnes
You making haste haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly. A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic. Robinson Jeffers
however, he brought to mind instances of cultured fellows that promised so brilliantly nipped in the bud of premature decay and nobody to blame but themselves. James Joyce
She was not happy--she never had been. Whence came this insufficiency in life--this instantaneous turning to decay of everything on which she leaned? But if there were somewhere a being strong and beautiful, a valiant nature, full at once of exaltation and refinement, a poet's heart in an angel's form, a lyre with sounding chords ringing out elegiac epithalamia to heaven, why, perchance, should she not find him? Ah! How impossible! Besides, nothing was worth the trouble of seeking it;... Gustave Flaubert
I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day. Lewis Carroll
I met a traveller from an antique land. Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone. Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown. And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command. Tell that its sculptor well those passions read. Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear:'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and... Percy Bysshe Shelley
He tilted back in the decaying lawn chair, almost went over on his back, and used up some more of his screwdriver. The screwdriver was in a glass he had gotten free from a McDonald's restaurant. There was some sort of purple animal on the glass. Something called a Grimace. Gary ate a lot of his meals at the Castle Rock McDonald's, where you could still get a cheap hamburger. Hamburgers were good. But as for the Grimace... and Mayor McCheese... and Monsieur Ronald Fucking McDonald... Gary... Stephen King
It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them. Friedrich Nietzsche
Umberto Eco quote: "We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by..."
We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay. Umberto Eco
Backward we traveled to reclaim the day. Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay. And profane words scrawled black across the sun. Sylvia Plath
Julian Barnes quote: "Religion decays, the icon remains; a narrative is forgotten,..."
Religion decays, the icon remains; a narrative is forgotten, yet its representation still magnetizes. Julian Barnes

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