Decaying Quotes

Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death. Ramana Maharshi
Death Emotions Personality Mind Will Vanish Also Because Am Nor Brain Decay Decaying Body Who Who Am I
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. Ernst Fischer
Art Faith Change World Reflect Society Changeable Unless Must Also Truthful Decay Decaying Break Wants Social Show Help Function
We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe. William Henry Hudson
Time Believe Our Know Years Subject Decay Decaying Middle Senses Happily
Each moment is defined by a multitude of histories, the past constantly converging upon us, perpetually decaying and reforming itself on the steady pulse of now, now, now, now. Dee Rees
Past Pulse Defined Constantly Steady Perpetually Histories Itself Reforming Decaying Us Moment Each Multitude Now
I was aware of that theme of mortality in my music since around 2009. The decaying and the disappearance of the piano sound is very much symbolic of life and mortality. It's not sad. I just meditate about it. Ryuichi Sakamoto
Sad Life Music About Piano Disappearance Mortality Since Around Sound Very Decaying Just Theme Much Aware Symbolic Meditate
I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc. Jeff Vandermeer
Try Potential Always Repetition Decaying Orbit Regard Etc Use Technique Alert
The money has always been wasted on me. I don't care for beautiful things, funnily enough. I am my father's daughter. The things that excite me are the smell of a wood-burning stove, uncultivated fields. My house is decaying and falling to pieces. It's not had the love it deserves over twenty years. Alison Moyet
Love Beautiful Me Money Stove Care Father Daughter Smell Enough Had Excite Over Pieces Beautiful Things House Always Am Falling Been Years dont Care Decaying Fields Twenty Deserves Wasted Things
I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness. Siddhartha Mukherjee
Me Age Quality Cancer Own Every Defined Possessed Kind Seemed Could Idea Very Frightening Decaying Same Tuberculosis Just Wanted Interesting Century Explore Illness Biologically
Schools alone are not to blame for underachievement. The breakdown of the family, poverty, and decaying cities with eroding tax bases have made a good public school education nearly impossible in many parts of the country. Bob Beckel
Education Alone Good Family Blame School Impossible Made Poverty Country Cities Schools Parts Decaying Tax Breakdown Public Public School Many Bases Nearly
Presidents Reagan and the first George Bush never used the vile language of some Trump supporters, but both blamed scarce resources and decaying communities on 'welfare queens' and black criminals like Willie Horton. Stephanie Coontz
Vile Welfare Language Black First Resources Criminals Presidents Willie Scarce Some Blamed Both Horton Never Supporters Like Reagan George Queens George Bush Trump Decaying Bush Used Communities
If you go out in the country, spend a lot of time on decaying farms, and you see a lot of crumbling tobacco farms, and wandering the woods, there's something beneath the surface; there's something older... more sinister. Cullen Bunn
Time You Country Older Beneath Spend Out See Something More Crumbling Surface Go Sinister Lot Decaying Wandering Woods Tobacco Farms
Chicago always hit me as such a gloomy place - I just remember all the snow getting dirty as soon as it would fall, all the decaying brown brick buildings around where we lived, all this soot all over the place. Terry Zwigoff
Me Remember Fall Would Brown Dirty Soon Over Gloomy Around Buildings Always Chicago Hit Snow Decaying Getting Just Where Place Brick Lived
Proponents of privatization argued that cities and states needed private capital to fund all the upgrades that our decaying infrastructure so desperately needed. Bethany McLean
Desperately Our States Cities Argued Private Privatization Decaying Infrastructure Capital Fund Needed
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