Sad that our finest aspiration Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away. Aleksandr Pushkin
What kind of competition is there in your body? Suppose your brain said ' I'm the most important organ, and the liver said 'I am, and I want to go in a free enterprise-system.' You would rot away in a month, if every organ of your body, were out for itself. Jacque Fresco
World world sister world When shall I tire of you. When my bread is dry When my hand forgets my glass When the coffin's boxed me in Maybe that's when I'll be tired of you. ... Living is despairing And the dead they rot away. Herta Müller
It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away. Brigitte Bardot