Rotting

Famous quotes containing the word rotting:

“Damn you, England. You’re rotting now, and quite soon you’ll disappear. My hate will outrun you yet if only for a few seconds. I wish it could be eternal.”
—John Osborne (b. 1929)

“Remember? We sat on a slab of rock.
From this distance in time,
it seems the color
of iris, rotting and turning purpler,

but it was only
the usual gray rock”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

“Paradox is the poisonous flower of quietism, the iridescent surface of the rotting mind, the greatest depravity of all.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)