Quotes About Deterioration

When the smoke thins, I can look across at the other buildings. So many of the windows are broken. Maybe the maintenance men in Arthur's office have already started putting in new panes.

All things deteriorate in time.

The cancer of time is eating us away

Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.

Time destroys everything.

The reality shows are getting worse and worse. They're out of control and have been for some time.

things are so vulnerable to the humiliations of decay.

Very old age is when the things that go wrong cause other things to go wrong, until, like sparks racing up a fuse, they finally reach a pack of dynamite.

Love is pointless. It's the same sad sad story of with the same inevitable ending of miserable deterioration.

aquellos fenomenales victorianos que a veces hacen a uno preguntarse si la raza humana no se habrá deteriorado desde entonces.

Depravity and decadence are two sides of the same coin.

Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.

As killing as the canker to the rose.

Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually (as the phrase is) king of his company: and in his most habitual company the husband who has a wife inferior to him is always so.

La peggiore violenza contro l'uomo è la degradazione dell'intelletto.

Les ravages de la "civilisation" sont si évidents qu'on a honte de les signaler encore.

Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.

The real cause of the deterioration can be simply stated. Our enemies have understood the nature of the conflict, and we have not. They are determined to win the conflict, and we are not.

With Alzheimer's, recent memory is affected first. At the start, you count the memory loss in days, then hours - then in minutes. But there's also an insidious backward creep of deterioration.

So aging is really just the way we deteriorate over time. Lifespan on the other hand is how long we live. We typically refer to that as longevity.

You know, the environment is fragmenting, and the environment is, in many places, absolutely hideous!

Çürüyorsun, dedi; parça parça da??l?yorsun. Sen nesin, biliyor musun? Bir pislik torbas?. Åžu sana bakan ÅŸeyi görüyor musun? Son insan bu iÅŸte. Sen insansan, iÅŸte insanl?k bu. Åžimdi giy ÅŸu giysilerini bakal?m.

The reality was decaying, dingy cities, where underfed people shuffled to and fro in leaky shoes, in patched-up nineteenth-century houses

What a degraded cosmos. What a case of something starting out nice and going bad.