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Dissolution Quotes

Lines on endings, decline and dissolving into stillness.

These quotes treat dissolution as more than decline — a nation's unraveling that dethrones what it once worshipped, a drunkard's fitting descent, and a meditative dissolving of thought into pure awareness. It pairs naturally with Being quotes.

Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.

Quotes by Adam Clarke

In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.

Quotes by A. S. Byatt

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.

Quotes by William Robertson Smith

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their...

Quotes by William Graham Sumner

Act Quotes

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

Quotes by Swami Sivananda

We do know the welfare system, starting in the '60s, basically encouraged the dissolution of marriage, encouraged families to separate in order to get the benefits.

Quotes by Scott Garrett

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.

Quotes by Ronald Reagan

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way...

Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

The dissolution of the Party - we will not let such a tremendous, big, and glorious party be so easily crashed: this would then be the moment, when we would begin to fight on all fronts.

Quotes by Otto Bauer

Air Quotes

Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.

Quotes by Mikhail Bakunin

The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.

Quotes by Kit Bond

The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.

Quotes by Fritz Sauckel

The period that directly follows the dissolution of a long term relationship is extremely volatile, with emotions running the gamut from misery to elation to relief to terror.

Quotes by Emily V. Gordon

I believe that the dissolution of a marriage comes about by the breaking down of self-esteem.

Quotes by Dixie Carter

Beautiful Quotes

What I described in 'Another Life' - about being on the hill and feeling the sort of dissolution that happened - is a frequent experience in a younger writer.

Quotes by Derek Walcott

The dissolution of the Oslo Accords would serve as the official act validating what we already know - that this failed framework is totally irrelevant in 2013.

Quotes by Danny Danon

I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto, and it celebrates everything which is the antithesis of death and dissolution and entropy.

Quotes by Chris Cleave

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the range of ideas in this Dissolution quotes page?
It spans a nation's political unraveling, a person's personal decline, religious self-denial, and meditation's dissolving of thought into pure awareness — all under one word.
Why do people search for quotes about dissolution?
The word covers both loss and spiritual release, so readers come to it from very different places, whether grieving an ending or exploring meditation.
Is there a quote connecting dissolution to meditation?
Yes — one line describes meditation as the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness, merging finitude into infinity without objectification.
Does the page include anything about political or national decline?
One quote states that the dissolution of a nation destroys its national religion and dethrones its national deity, treating collapse on a civilizational scale.
What topic should I explore next?
For more reflective, spiritual language, Being quotes complements this page well.

One reflection on Christ finds delight even in self-denial and dissolution, framing loss as a kind of devotion. See also Act or Air quotes.