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1 " The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted. "
― Roman Payne , Hope and Despair
2 " Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt. "
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3 " What an odd thing a stranger is. A stranger sleeping next to you. I listen to his breathing as if it were his entire life, with its hidden processes, the pulsing of the blood in the tissues, with thousands of tiny hidden decays and combustions, which together create and maintain him. "
― Mihail Sebastian , For Two Thousand Years
4 " Beyond a certain speed, motorized vehicles create remoteness which they alone can shrink. They create distances for all and shrink them for only a few. A new dirt road through the wilderness brings the city within view, but not within reach, of most Brazilian subsistence farmers. The new expressway expands Chicago, but it sucks those who are well-wheeled away from a downtown that decays into a ghetto. "
― Ivan Illich , Energy and Equity
5 " Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people. "
― Abraham Joshua Heschel , Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays
6 " Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. "
7 " False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. "
