Rotting Quotes

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

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting

I got dead bodies rotting in my Benz trunk. Trunk of funk, I call it.

You are either green and growing, or ripe and rotting.

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.

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.

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.

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

Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.

Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot?" [As used in his time, by the word force, Carlyle means energy.]

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.

We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.

I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

The time flies. The time flies feed on rotting clocks.

It looks more like a rotting pumpkin.

The concept that you are not ingesting rotting flesh sort of sums it up for me.

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.

If you've never woken up from a car accident to discover that your wife is dead and you're an animated, rotting corpse, then you probably wouldn't understand.

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

Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.

I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye like a rotting bull. I dinna understand myself.

Nothing ever grows in this rotting old hole.

There was nowhere to sit except the bunk, which was covered with rotting food, and a wooden stool, upon which sat a large fur-covered lump—an old cheese, perhaps, or a dead cat.

A surgeon would never hesitate to amputate a rotting hand, no matter how faithfully it had served its owner in the past.

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!

Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.

The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core.