Rotted

Famous quotes containing the word rotted:

“After a big ship has rotted away, there still remain three thousand nails.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Fifteen years I’ve rotted in the darkness. Waited. Not to kill you. To kill your soul. Slowly.”
—Peter Ruric, and Edgar G. Ulmer. Edgar G. Ulmer. Dr. Vitus Werdegast (Bela Lugosi)

“The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable in contemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization ...”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)