I always believed 'The Fly' to be a classic opera story. It's a tale of love and death, true love surviving in the face of physical decay and ultimate sacrifice.
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy.
'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two words I've never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling.
Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.