Decrepitude Quotes

“Humans make a city, but a city makes humans tolerate the intolerable.”
― Chandler Klang Smith, The Sky Is Yours

“It is man who has introduced a little grace, beauty, unknown charm and mystery into creation by singing about it, interpreting it, by admiring it as a poet, idealizing it as an artist and by explaining it through science, doubtless making mistakes, but finding ingenious reasons, hidden grace and beauty, unknown charm and mystery in the various phenomena of Nature. God created only coarse beings, full of the germs of disease, who, after a few years of bestial enjoyment, grow old and infirm, with all the ugliness and all the want of power of human decrepitude.”
― Guy de Maupassant

“The trouble with being a rock of sense is that, eventually, you lose the sense and become the rock.”
― Stewart Stafford