{"quotes":[{"text":"I love autumn', Emily said to me. 'It wins you over with its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.","author":"Nicholas Sparks","tags":["appeal","autumn","decay","fall","nicholas-sparks","two-by-two"],"id":23029,"author_id":"Nicholas+Sparks"},{"text":"If my belief in the God-force-principle-thing had faltered from time to time, it was completely reaffirmed that morning when I considered how completely brilliant a creation was fermentation. From decay came a pleasure sublime enough to keep decay at bay. Only for a few minutes, perhaps, but some minutes are like no others.","author":"Tony Hendra","tags":["death","decay","god","pleasure","wine"],"id":27068,"author_id":"Tony+Hendra"},{"text":"By assembling in our mind all the consequential facts we have lived through and by reviewing, appraising or sometimes idealizing the numerous key points of the past, authenticity may gradually mutate and actuality decay at last. At that point in time we are to experience a maimed factuality. ('Labyrinth of the mind').","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["actuality","appraise","assemble","at-last","authenticity","consequential","decay","experience","facts","factuality","gradually","idealize","key-point","labyrinth","live-through","maimed","mind","mutate","numerous","past","review","sometimes"],"id":30647,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"Secrets. Everyone has them. The light of day and truth reveal some secrets to be nagging obsessions or habits, while other secrets may be as incriminating as a literal decaying skeleton in one’s closet.","author":"Kenn Bivins","tags":["decay","secrets"],"id":46258,"author_id":"Kenn+Bivins"},{"text":"Change your environment and if the need be, change your company because it goes a long way to create another version for you which can easily ripe for decay!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["bad-environment","change","change-position","company","decay","environment","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","need","ripe","version"],"id":49968,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"A lot of things in the house were broken or forgotten: the kitchen clock stopped, a closet doorknob coming off in my hand. The sparkly mess of flies I'd swept from the corners. It took sustained, constant living to ward off decay.","author":"Emma Cline","tags":["age","death","decay","time"],"id":52059,"author_id":"Emma+Cline"},{"text":"They ate my humanity but no humanity in beginning humans Earth dust atomsClever microorganisms defy godsBut defy nothingPhantom of truth Beneath reality's facade.","author":"A.R. LaBaere","tags":["cosmic-horror","decay","horror","stream-of-thought"],"id":57673,"author_id":"A.R.+LaBaere"},{"text":"I’m pretty sure Mom and Dad didn’t see me coming, either: the kid with the black moods, the kid whose mind was always elsewhere, flinching from real life as from a bruise. Who wanted to lay a fiction-filter on top of everything and pretend it was something else just to keep the sheer disappointment of it all bearable: this limited, empirical experience of ours, trapped inside a decaying shell of meat, mainly able to perceive that nothing lasts, even in our most pleasurable moments.","author":"Gemma Files","tags":["decay","mortality"],"id":68415,"author_id":"Gemma+Files"},{"text":"Material wealth do not last forever, but that which probably lasts forever is the wealth of intelligence and creativity.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["acumen","age","book-knowledge","creativity","decay","eternal","eternity","expire","forever","future","generation","innovation","intelligence","keep-going","materialism","michael-bassey-johnson","philosophers","survival","talent","time","today","tomorrow","wealth"],"id":74606,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"For meobedience to another is the decayof self.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["conforming","conformity","decay","follow","independence","individualism","individuality","life","obedience","obey","self","self-sufficiency"],"id":81734,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":56,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}