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Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.

Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both.

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.

From a personal standpoint, I'd say that, yeah, seeing how quickly children grow, you realize how fast life goes by.

I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.