But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.
Quotes about decayed (16 Quotes)
My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.
For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.
Autobiography of Lorenzo Snow Our former loved associates Have mostly passed away While those we knew as children Are crowned with locks of gray. We saw Times varied traces Were deep on every hand Indeed, upon the people, More marked than on the land. The bands that once with firmness Could grasp the axe and blade, Now move with trembling motion, By strength of nerve decayed. The change in form and feature And furrows on the cheek Of Times increasing volume, In plain, round numbers speak. And thus, as in a mirrors Reflection, we were told, With stereotyped impressions, The fact of growing old.
I don't see much future for the Americans... It's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities... My feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance... Everything about the behavior of American society reveals that it's half Judaized, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together.
Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid,
My verse alone had all thy gentle grace,
But now my gracious numbers are decayed,
And my sick Muse doth give an other place.
The immeasurable height Of woods decaying, never to be decayed, The stationary blasts of waterfalls.
The nation's morals are like its teeth the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.
A lot of those are in pretty decayed state. We have dry rot and damage associated with water.
Nothing can be sour and sharpAs a love that has decayed --On the loose strings of the harpOnly discord can be made.
Home to 90 per cent of Australians is a Sydney or Melbourne slum, or a decayed mining town, or the wide and dreamy bush, yet they talk glibly of England as 'Home'.
God is the Old Repair Man. When we are junk in Nature's storehouse he takes us apart. What is good he lays aside he might use it someday. What has decayed he buries in six feet of sod to nurture the weeds.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
I inhabit a week, frail, decayed tenement battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.
This thing would pay for itself to the city over time. This will generate new sales tax. I don't think anything would have happened on that site. It would have sat there and decayed without the help the city has provided through this redevelopment district. If the project would have worked without the city investing 3 million, then that site would have been developed a long time ago.
I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.