inevitability of decay Quotes

It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.

What did a few ripples in the flesh matter when, all too soon, now or later, that flesh would be making its return journey to dust?

Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the White Man ... cannot be exempt from the common destiny.

All beauty that surrounds us must one day perish.

All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.

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

Everything which has name and form must die. If there are heavens with forms, these heavens must vanish in course of time; they may last millions of years, but there must come a time when they will have to go.

I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays.