Quotes About Deterioration

It is singular how long the rotten will hold together, provided you do not handle it roughly.

The issue is whether we want to live in a free society or whether we want to live under what amounts to a form of self-imposed totalitarianism, with the bewildered herd marginalized, directed elsewhere, terrified, screaming patriotic slogans, fearing for their lives, and admiring with awe the leader who saved them from destruction, while the educated masses goose-step on command and repeat the slogans they're supposed to repeat and the society deteriorates at home.

When there was a crack in something it only widened if you didn't tend to it. Let it go long enough, a crack became a break, and you had a hell of a mess on your hands.

When there was a crack in something it only widened if you didn't tend to it. Let it go long enough, a crack became a break, and you had a hell of a mess on your hands.

which is a fancy way of saying that nature tends to bring things to disorder.

Nothing is static. Everything is evolving. Everything is falling apart.

No mat­ter how much I try and hide this, bit by bit, I start to fall apart.

Between wiener juice and lung blood, I'd say that chambray shirt was a goner.

Nothing is static. Everything is falling apart.

everything wooden swells and shrinks, and the nails in everything wooden, the floors and baseboards and window casings, the nails inch out and rust. Everywhere there are rusted nails to step on or snag your elbow on, and there's only one bathroom for the seven

Hoard food and it rots. Hoard money and you rot. Hoard power and the government rots.

Flecked and blotched with the stains of decomposition, the linen would trace a rambling journey in which everything you love falls apart.

Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture." And

The first force is evolution. Humanity changing, growing, becoming better than it was. The second force is ruination. Humanity making its best effort to demonstrate its worst tendencies. A march toward self-destruction.

Everything has gone wayward. Sliding sideways into entropy.

The paint hung in thin rinds from the ceiling, and the sooty windows turned every hour overcast.

Coffee leads to cigarettes leads to cocaine and crystal methamphetamine.

He had that smile on his round, craggy face you get when you squint at the sun. He had muscle deterioration in his face that gave him a lazy eye. If you didn't know him you would think he was blinking or drinking. With his good eye he looked through his wide glasses into my blue eyes. Russell

it had been quite a fine house once, when it was anybody's business to keep it clean and fresh, and nobody's business to smoke in it all day

When we see civilization elated with this declining and decrepit phase of its career, we are reminded of a faded belle who, boasting of her attractions in her fiftieth year, excites at once the remark that she was fairer at twenty-five. So it is with civilization, which, dreaming of perfection and progress, is constantly deteriorating, and which will find but too soon in its industrial achievements new sources of political oppression, crimes and commotions.

O de Ralph Waldo Emerson: «The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization». «El fin de la raza humana será que —eventualmente— morirá de civilización.»

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

Louisiana, the state road maintenance forgot.

Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.