Quotes About Lessening

Time's horses gallop down the lessening hill.

Heightened awareness often gives the illusion that a problem is lessening. This is most often not the case. It may mean simply that a problem has become so widespread it can no longer remain hidden or be ignored.

She is happy, Kate thought. Even in her circumstance, she is happy. Kate almost envied the wounded woman that contentment. Was that what suffering did? she wondered. Place you in such pain that with its lessening, contentment came more easily. (p. 180)

For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.

every day represents more and more subtracted from less and less

As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.