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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.

— Anne Roiphe

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

— Thomas Jefferson

The overwhelming bulk of the cosmos is deathly quiet. But here and there - on worlds where matter is thick and conditions are right - noises are commonplace. And in some cases, these noisy worlds may ring with the sounds of life - the bleats and bellows of creatures we have never seen, but may someday discover.

— Seth Shostak

Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.

— Dorothy Day

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

— Isaac Asimov

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

— Nikki Giovanni

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

— Francesca Annis

Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet.

— Michael W. Smith

✗Opposing Perspectives

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

— Henry Miller

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

— Urs Fischer

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

— David LaChapelle