Clarice Lispector
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting"
Rotting quotes
Rotting
28 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Antonin Artaud
Playwright, Actor, Theorist
"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."
William Blake
Poet, Painter
"He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out."
Thomas Carlyle
Essayist, Historian, Novelist
"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.]"
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals."
Explore further
Topics related to Rotting
Browse quotes that often appear alongside rotting — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Rotting quotes (page 1 of 2)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"The concept that you are not ingesting rotting flesh sort of sums it up for me."
Read quote
5 likes
"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."
Read quote
3 likes