There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion.
Arthur Middleton

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
Charles Mackay

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
Niccolo Machiavelli

There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.
Sarah Josepha Hale

Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.
Robert Blair

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.
Henry W. Kendall

When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
Octave Mirbeau

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
Oliver Goldsmith

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
Alfred North Whitehead

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
Benjamin Disraeli

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
John Updike

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
Flannery O'Connor