Best Rotting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Rome: Poems

“I don't necessarily love rotting bodies, but there's a texture to a rotting body that is unbelievable. Have you ever seen a little rotted animal? I love looking at those things, just as much as I like to look at a close-up of some tree bark, or a small bug, or a cup of coffee, or a piece of pie. You get in close and the textures are wonderful.”

Corpses Texture Rotting Decomposition Dead Things

Book:Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity

Source: Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity

“The Goth boy stares at me, and I give him a what-are-you-looking-at stare right back. “I’m dead,” he says in a dull monotone. “Pardon me?” Adriana asks, but he keeps staring at me. “You’re dead, too. Look at your veins. They’re blue.” He points at my forearms where dark veins run their lengths. “You’re rotting like me.” I glance to Adriana, hands clasped and praying that she won’t leave me here. Adriana’s stopped crying now and squints at the boy before standing to pull closed the curtain that rings my cot. “Crazy,” she says with an uncertain smile. “You’re not rotting.” . . . ninety-nine, one hundred . “No,” I reply. “But I will if you leave me here.”

Psychology Mental Health Mental Illness Wolves Rotting Count Psychiatric Hospital

Book:Counting Wolves

Source: Counting Wolves

“If you feel that you are rotting in a port, nothing can make you happy other than leaving that port and sailing to new ports!”

Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes Sail Sailing Port Leave Rotting Happiness Quotations

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Her scent was potent. An overpowering mix of wet leaves, fallen branches, forest fungus. "No," I breathed. It wasn't only fallen leaves; it was the undertone of autumn. The ground, cold and near death. Rotting.”

Autumn Rotting Villainess False Leader

Book:Dirty Lying Faeries

Source: Dirty Lying Faeries

“Do not bless all the changes; change must be progressive; if not, we must not call it as change; the correct name is deterioration or decaying! Beware of the changes! Any change which is not progressive is just a rotting!”

Ifs Names Bless Progressive Rotting Deterioration

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem for the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.”

Mind Humans Soul Process Half Cutting Fit Creatures Transformation Casts Butterfly Decay Human Soul Caterpillars Rotting Emblems Deterioration Mythical Creatures Chrysalis

Author:Pat Barker

“Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U- Niversity of Gottingen.”

Thinking Eye Views Prison Companion Dungeons Rotting Haggard

Author:George Canning

“The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere.”

People Ifs Wells Film Special Reputation Revival Something Special Rotting No One Cares Vertigo

Author:Kim Novak

“Oh heavy change. The world deteriorates like a rotting apple, worms and a skin.”

World Change Skins Heavy Apples Changing The World Worms Rotting

Book:The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962

Source: The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962

“Not everyone is okay with living like an open wound. But the thing about open wounds is that, well, you aren't ignoring it. You're healing; the fresh air can get to it. It's honest. You aren't hiding who you are. You aren't rotting. People can give you advice on how to heal without scarring badly. But on the other hand there are some people who'll feel uncomfortable around you. Some will even point and laugh. But we all have wounds.”

People Giving Feels Wells Hands Healing Laughing Air Advice Honest Okay Who You Are Wounds Heal Uncomfortable Hiding Fresh Air Rotting Scarring

Author:Warsan Shire

“He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out.”

Children Teach Graves Rotting

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“My favorite Halloween candy is the candy corn. It comes in four colors: white, yellow, orange, brown. Those are also the stages of your teeth rotting after you eat it.”

White Four Stage Color My Favorite Teeth Brown Yellow Halloween Orange Candy Corn Rotting Color White Halloween Candy Candy Corn

Author:Jay Leno

“Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave, a jelly-like mass of liquid corruption. Imagine such a corpse a prey to flames, devoured by the fire of burning brimstone and giving off dense choking fumes of nauseous loathsome decomposition. And then imagine this sickening stench, multiplied a millionfold and a millionfold again from the millions upon millions of fetid carcasses massed together in the reeking darkness, a huge and rotting human fungus. Imagine all this, and you will have some idea of the horror of the stench of hell.”

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Mean and mighty, rotting Together, have one dust.”

Mean Together Equality Dust Rotting

Author:William Shakespeare

“When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.”

“I've retroactively made all that wasted time rotting my brain into research. It makes me a hypocrite when I try to tell my own daughter, "I don't know, I think we've played a little too much Mario."”

Thinking Knows Trying Littles Made My Own Brain Too Much Research Daughter Hypocrite Wasted Time Rotting Mario

Author:Ernest Cline

“Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural idea.”

World Art Ideas Political Literature Religious Moral Window Theater Presses Cinema Manifestation Display Posters Nazism Nazi Germany Rotting Mein Kampf

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“I was brooding, boy. Than which there is no richer pastime. It muffles one with rotting plumes. It gives forth sullen music. It is the smell of home.”

Giving Home Boys Smell Pastime Brooding Rotting Sullen

Book:Titus Alone

Source: Titus Alone

“We've voted in a government that's rotting at the core, Appointing Godless Judges who throw reason out the door, Too soft to place a killer in a well deserved tomb, But brave enough to kill a baby before he leaves the womb.”

Wells Reason Enough Government Doors Judging Baby Brave Scary Core Killers Womb Tombs Rotting

Author:Roy Moore

“Darkness can be funny. It can be quirky. There are different ways that that stuff comes out as a creative person. But the actual conflicted, twisted, decaying, rotting soul? That's not me. No more.”

Way Persons Different Soul Stuff Darkness Creative Different Ways Twisted Quirky Creative Person Rotting

Author:Nikki Sixx

“Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.”

World Soul Body This World Flesh Desperate Abandon Solace Rotting World Life

Book:Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

Source: Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

“With a weak and rotting core, you don't have much of a foreign policy. You're discounted at the negotiating table, economically and militarily. So when people ask what's the best course of action for the U.S.-China relationship, I can give you ten academic responses. But the reality is we need to rebuild our core.”

People Needs Giving I Can Reality Action Courses Asks Policy Ten Weak Tables Response China Core Academic Foreign Policy Diplomacy Negotiating Rotting

Author:Jon Huntsman, Jr.

“The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf.”

Universe Planets Leafs Reciprocity Rotting Arteries

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf. The vapor climbs the sunbeam, and comes back in blessings upon the exhausted herb. The exhalation of the plant is wafted to the ocean. And so goes on the beautiful commerce of nature. And all because of dissimilarity--because no one thing is sufficient in itself, but calls for the assistance of something else, and repays by a contribution in turn.”

“A man should not love the moon. An ax should not lose weight in his hand. His garden should smell of rotting apples, And grow a fair amount of nettles.”

Men Should Hands Grows Loses Amount Moon Fairs Garden Weight Smell Apples Lose Weight Rotting Nettles

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“Anyone who studies our poisonous drugs, our denatured food, our deathtrap automobiles and houses, our lung-rotting cities, must concede that we accept a good deal of murder as inevitable simply because it is done to make or save money.”

Done House Deals Cities Accepting Study Drug Murder Environmental Inevitable Pollution Lungs Automobile Saving Money Poisonous Rotting

Author:Joy Davidman

“It's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I'd picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn't like the attention.”

Two Lasts House Sides Hours Attention Gone Pieces Impossible Streets Car Painting Shops Cracks Abandoned New Orleans Rotting Mattresses

Author:Banksy

“The world was held in a savage gloom - cold and intolerable. Outside, all was quiet - quiet! From the dark room behind me, came the occasional, soft thud of falling matter - fragments of rotting stone. So time passed, and night grasped the world, wrapping it in wrappings of impenetrable blackness.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Hope Hodgson (Illustrated)

“We do not smirk at the misery or the merrymaking of immoral culture. We weep. Being pilgrims does not mean being cynical. The salt of the earth does not mock rotting meat. Where it can, it saves and seasons. And where it can’t, it weeps.”

Mean Doe Earth Culture Seasons Misery Meat Cynical Salt Immoral Mock Pilgrim Rotting Smirk Salt Of The Earth

Author:John Piper

“Nothing ever grows in this rotting old hole.”

Evil Grows Holes Rotting

Author:Meat Loaf

“Generally, that's what happens-a fundamental rotting of the idea. They woke up with the wrong idea. It's just like music: If you don't have an innate love or calling for it, then no matter how much you study or how well you can play by looking at the score, it doesn't mean that you're going to make really good music.”

Ifs Wells Mean Ideas Matter Play Happens Study Calling Fundamentals Score Innate Rotting Wrong Ideas

Author:William Eggleston

“The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word "Art," and everything is O.K. Rotting corpses with snails crawling over them are O.K.; kicking little girls in the head is O.K.; even a film like L'Age d'Or is O.K.”

People Littles Art Age Film Law Artist Girl Moral Magic Ordinary Ordinary People Corpses Kicking Binding Crawling Rotting Moral Law Snail Magic Words

Book:All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“And if you say a word about this over the radio, the next wings you see will belong to the flies buzzing over your rotting corpse.”

Ifs Next Wings Radio Over You Corpses Rotting

Author:John Malkovich

“All of your brain cells rotting from weed, feeling like if you ain’t got it life’s not as complete.”

Ifs Feelings Brain Cells Weed Rotting Brain Cells

Author:Hopsin

“No one, and the liberal cognoscenti least of all, wants to look at why, after decades of throwing money at a rotting educational establishment and years of racial preferences black students are worse off than ever.”

Want Years Looks Black Students Educational Decades Throwing Establishment Preference Rotting

Author:Wesley Pruden

“How do you view God in a desert? There's two types of birds. There's vultures, and there's hummingbirds. One lives off dead carcasses, rotting meat. The other lives off the beautiful, sweet, nectar in a particular flower, on a particular desert plant, in the same desert. They both find what they're looking for. Do you know - take it all the way back into the Old Testament - and the Muslim and you, we actually serve the same God. Allah, to a Muslim; to us, Abba Father, God.”

Knows Way Two Beautiful Father Views Particular Sweet Flower Type Bird Plant Desert Meat Do You Know Testament Old Testament Rotting Vulture Nectar Abba Hummingbirds Abba Father

Author:Brian Houston

“There is more food in the world than we could possibly use. There's a huge surplus of food per capita, but it's locked away and rotting in the storehouses of the Western world, whereas in the East, in many parts of Africa, India and South America, people are starving to death. Millions of people are dying of starvation in a time in which there is a huge surplus of food.”

People World Use America Millions Dying Huge India South Western East Locked Starving Starvation Western World Surplus Rotting South America

Author:Benjamin Creme

“If our designs are failing due to the constant rain of changing requirements, it is our designs that are at fault. We must somehow find a way to make our designs resilient to such changes and protect them from rotting.”

Ifs Way Learning Failing Design Protect Rain Constant Faults Simplicity Dues Programming Requirements Resilient Computer Programming Programming Languages Computer Language Rotting

Author:Robert Cecil Martin

“A grub in filth is dirty, but it changes into a cicada and sips dew in the autumn breeze. Rotting plants have no luster, but they turn into foxfire and glow in the summer moonlight. So we know that purity emerges from impurity, and light is born from darkness.”

Knows Light Turns Born Darkness Summer Plant Dirty Purity Taoism Autumn Breeze Moonlight Dew Filth Rotting Impurity Luster Cicadas

Author:Zicheng Hong

“We have a rotting infrastructure that is literally poisoning children in Flint, Newark and elsewhere.”

Children Elsewhere Infrastructure Poisoning Rotting Newark

Author:Kshama Sawant

“A permanent and sustainable solution to all the problems facing working people is possible by taking the biggest companies into democratic ownership, and reorganizing the economy on a democratically planned basis. Under such a system we could democratically decide how to allocate resources. We could rapidly transition away from fossil fuels, develop massive jobs programs to rebuild the country's rotting infrastructure, and begin to build a whole new world based on meeting the needs of the majority, not the profits of a few.”

“When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.”

Motivational Growing Up Growing Green Ripe Rotting

Author:Ray Kroc

“I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.”

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”

Body Death Grows Dying Flower Eternity Sunshine Death And Dying I Hate You Rotting Dying Death Someone Dying Dying Love Beautiful Death Happy Death Someone Who Is Dying Eternity Of Life

Author:Edvard Munch

“Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a blood pressure machine and they'd rile me. I'd yell and scream, and then it would just go back to normal in a few minutes. Everything else is probably rotting, but the blood pressure is spectacular.”

Blood Minutes Normal Machines Pressure Asking Interviews Scream Spectacular Hooked Rotting Blood Pressure

Author:Lewis Black

“If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.”

“It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.”

Feels Sweet Radio Teeth Cynical Listen To Your Heart Rotting

Author:Bono

“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”

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