Quotes About Deterioration

If you got maggots in your brain, everything you think is gonna be rotten.

The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.

Corruption is just a rude word for the autumn of a people.

But the petty thought is like a fungus: it crawls and cringes and wants to be nowhere—until the whole body is rotten and withered with little fungi.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

All great empires die from within.

Empires implode from within due to their own excesses.

Evil is like cancer, if you don't stop it, it will grow, get worse, and cause harm to you.

Justice and abuse: Justice makes life thrive while abuse deteriorates and destroys it.

Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.

By the end I was deteriorating faster than I could lower my standards.

Time eventually destroyed our love for one another. Time withered our gentle intimacy. Time devoured whatever conversations or pleasures we once agreeably shared.

I'm falling into disrepair

I feel the place is falling apart on me, but Mrs. Scarlatti says not to worry. It always looks like that, she says. Life is a continual shoring up, she says, against one thing and another just eroding and crumbling away. I'm beginning to think she's right.

India is not an underdeveloped country but a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.

a highly developed country of the past, in an advanced state of decay).

In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show.

I am inclined to notice the ruin in things, perhaps because I was born in Italy.

nothing dies of old age. Everything dies of something.

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Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.

My character in 'Running With Scissors' is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible illness.

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

Harmony makes small things grow. Lack of it makes big things decay.