#decay

Gosto de imaginar que não é a decadência que nos mata mas a obscuridade que nos conduz até ela como uma íman. I like to imagine that is not the decay that kills us but the darkness that leads us to it as a magnet. ↗

— Victor Eustáquio

#decay #imagination

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. ↗

— Robert Browning

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And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay. ↗

— George Washington Cable

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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

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Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

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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

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

— Sarah Josepha Hale

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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

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

— George MacDonald

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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

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