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My way of life
Is fall'n into the sear and yellow leaf. — William Shakespeare

Lice consume grass, rust consumes iron, and lying the soul! — Anton Chekhov

Possessed of the Tao, he endures long; and to the end of his bodily life, is exempt from all danger of decay. — Lao-Tzu

I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision. — Allen Ginsberg

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. — Ambrose Bierce

They knew that mere appearance and disappearance are on the surface like waves on the sea, but life which is permanent knows no decay or diminution. — Rabindranath Tagore

I was overwhelmed by the smells. Slow, heavy odours, tenaciously biting, forming a strange mixture of excessive life and death, of birth and decay. — Jean-Christophe Grange

Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city. — Urs Fischer

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. — Henry Miller

LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed — Ambrose Bierce

Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve. — Karen Thompson Walker

He still was not happy, she never had been. What caused this inadequacy in her life? Why did everything she leaned on instantaneously decay?.. — Gustave Flaubert

Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay. — Albert Einstein

Without death and decay, how could life go on? — John Burroughs

When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die. — Gautama Buddha

Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay. — Isaac Watts

When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay. — Gautama Buddha

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

There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death. — Robinson Jeffers

All things that have form eventually decay. -Orochimaru — Masashi Kishimoto

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

Bad health is the primary reason for all life. Created by disease, within putrefaction, into decay — William Faulkner

I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't? — Charles Bukowski

In history as in nature, decay is the laboratory of life. — Karl Marx

Letting go is not forgetting. It's opening your eyes to the good that grew from the bad, the life that blooms from decay. — Emily Henry

By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay. — Aristotle.

Just a tick past fruition sits decay. — Kristin Kimball

The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth. — Henry David Thoreau

Year chases year, decay pursues decay,
Still drops some joy from with'ring life away;
New forms arise, and diff'rent views engage — Samuel Johnson

New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people. — Anne Rice

So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays. — Homer

You must know life to see decay. — Mumford And Sons

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin