Quotes About Deterioration

I stopped picking up after myself, put less effort into my appearance around the apartment, snapped at him on occasion. He seemed happy as ever, so I spent more time without him and was bossier when we were together. Before I knew it, it was like I was playing a game to see just how much Jack could take.

The bad thing about galvanized pipes is they rust, and over the years they can get corroded. It's just kinda gross.

This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.

My brain cells are dying in their trillions.

her face fell apart like a bride's pie crust.

Everything degenerates in the hands of man.

It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.

I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

I saw bundles of dead raggedy reeds hanging down from the broken ceilings that had depicted heaven. I looked deep into the house's diseased and dying maw. It was like it had been putting on an act the whole time and was only now showing itself as it, in reality, had always been: a hollow, drafty cavern, rancid and rotting at its core.

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold...

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

Things fall apart, it's scientific.

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

It is a universal principle that whenever one refuses to use his God-given powers, these powers decay and perish.

When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.

If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.

The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

Progress of mankind is the decadence of humanity.