Decay

(282 votes)   'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, and then from hour to hour we rot and rot. and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(198 votes)   Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(131 votes)   There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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(102 votes)   Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.

E. M. Cioran
1911-, Rumanian-born French Philosopher

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(97 votes)   Old age cannot be cured. An epoch or a civilization cannot be prevented from breathing its last. A natural process that happens to all flesh and all human manifestations cannot be arrested. You can only wring your hands and utter a beautiful swan song.

Renee Winegarten

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