Rot Quotes

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

Government is like an undershirt. If you don't change it frequently, it begins to stink.

The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot.

When I say that life is like an onion, I mean this: if you don't do anything with it, it goes rotten. So far, that's no different from other vegetables. But when an onion goes bad, it can either do it from the inside, or the outside. So sometimes you see one that looks good, but the core is rotten. Other times, you can see a bad spot on it, but if you cut that out, the rest is fine. Tastes sharp, but that's what you paid for, isn't it?

I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us.

The moral fiber of the American people is beset by rot and decay

As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.

Without electricity, the air would rot.

When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.

There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have the hideous mechanics of birth and copulation and death -those monstrous upheavals of life that the Greeks call miasma, defilement- been so brutal or been painted up to look so pretty; have so many people put so much faith in lies and mutability and death death death.

When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.

Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot, decomposition, dust.

All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.

Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting

Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.

My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path a foul carcass On a gravel strewn bed, Its legs raised in the air, like a lustful woman, Burning and dripping with poisons, Displayed in a shameless, nonchalant way Its belly, swollen with gases.

There was nowhere to sit except the bunk, which was covered with rotting food, and a wooden stool, upon which sat a large fur-covered lump—an old cheese, perhaps, or a dead cat.

Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.

There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!

The essence of decay is inactivity.

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

When the juices of trees have no means of escape, they clot and rot in them, making the trees hollow and good for nothing.

... an apathetic indifferent meat in a sandwich that has an ever thinning slice of maniacal Plutocratic Gluttony on top and an ever thickening slice of rotten vermin rottening at the bottom.