I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
Bob Dylan

I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.
Harold Brodkey

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

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
Jack Valenti

If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay.
Jane Byrne

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

It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.
Lee Atwater

Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.
John Nelson Darby

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

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
Doris Day

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.
Wim Wenders

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.
Hu Shih

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
Jean-Luc Godard

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
Walter Smith

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
George Orwell

Progress, this great heresy of decay.
Charles Baudelaire

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.
Charles de Secondat

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
Francesca Annis

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.
John C. Calhoun

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.
William Godwin