Quotes About Deterioration

Their eyes seemed to see another life—a life that was losing clarity and focus. And those beasts that had been there the longest could see only wire mesh and concrete. All memories of the past had drained from them. They sat on their logs and their rocks, their heads slowly scrolling left and right like dementia patients, mesmerized by the passing visitors but not at all interested in

to have reached perfection that the seeds of its decay begin to germinate.

Abandoned homes become magnets for vandalism and crime. They drag down the property values of neighboring homes.

Many foreclosed homes are neglected or abandoned, as legal proceedings or other factors delay their resale. Deteriorating or vacant properties can, in turn, directly affect the quality of life in a neighborhood, for example, by leading to increases in vandalism or crime.

The infrastructure, institutions and social fabric of Venezuela are deteriorating, and people realize the Chavez government has been the problem, not the solution.

The male has a negative Midas Touch -- everything he touches turns to shit.

The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.

Corruptio optimi pessima." The corruption of the best things are the worst things.

Owning and maintaining a fraud had a way of gradually demoralizing one.

But she looked—smaller. As if something in her had dwindled away, as if she had dried up. It was almost—age. Yet not quite. Could their separation have done this much damage? He doubted it. His wife, since he had seen her last, had become frail, and he did not like this; despite his animosity he felt concern.

Only death can get us out of this and maybe not even death. Maybe it's too late; we'll carry this deterioration with us to the next life.

In her laugh was the admission of her captivity: to Norman, to menopause, to work, to aging, to everything that could only deteriorate further.

Corrode, v. I spent all this time building a relationship. Then one night I left the window open, and it started to rust.

Melancholy, at first, no doubt, lends a certain attractive grace, but it ends by dragging the features and blighting the loveliest face.

A life of debauch and the abuse of liquors debased, day by day, a countenance that was once so handsome. The veins of the face were swollen with blood, the features became coarse, the eyes lost their lashes and grew hard and dry. No longer careful of his person, Philippe exhaled the miasmas of a tavern and the smell of muddy boots, which, to an observer, stamped him with debauchery.

When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration.

Muchas enseñanzas religiosas en el mundo son en realidad una forma confusa o deteriorada, muy diferente a sus raíces.

La ciencia deteriorada es un culto, así como el Sufismo deteriorado o imitativo.

Cuando tienes un principio con el que están todos de acuerdo, obtienes lo que es el comienzo de la complacencia y el deterioro.

And now I'm wondering, is this what happens with MS? Does it just become a sequence of demolition to the body? Like a pattern of dating the wrong guys, slowly breaking you down until you're a shell of your old existence?

Its a sad sight to watch a friendship deteriorate...especially when yer one of the friends.

Sharp acids corrode their own containers.

Stage one is called the incipient or smoldering stage. Stage two is the growth stage. Stage three is the fully developed or steady burning stage. Stage four is the decay stage.

To the man who has begun to hate himself the gate to degeneration has already opened; and the same is true of a nation.