Quotes About Decline

DECLINE REMAINS OUR fate; death will someday come.

The earliest portions to shrink are generally the frontal lobes, which govern judgment and planning, and the hippocampus, where memory is organized. As a consequence, memory and the ability to gather and weigh multiple ideas—to multitask—peaks in midlife and then gradually declines.

alone. His condition deteriorated rapidly.

Some will be alarmed by the prospect of a doctor's writing about the inevitability of decline and death. For many, such talk, however carefully framed, raises the specter of a society readying itself to sacrifice its sick and aged. But what if the sick and aged are already being sacrificed—victims of our refusal to accept the inexorability of our life cycle?

In the late 1960s a woman in the poorer countries of the world typically had six children. Today the average is fewer than three. In fact, demographers now project that the world's population will begin to decline before 2050.47

From hero to zero is a tired phrase today

More coffee?" Hodges declines with a smile. Hot can only do so much for bad coffee.

He was born crazy...He's been losing ground ever since.

Today, about a quarter of poor families with children are covered by TANF, for example, down from about 70 percent twenty years ago.

This city,' said George, 'is going to hell in a handcart.

Su vida está en declive, tiene que reconocerlo. Pero el mundo también, y eso le ofrece no poco consuelo.

Renfrew noted the general features of systems collapse, itemizing them as follows: (1) the collapse of the central administrative organization; (2) the disappearance of the traditional elite class; (3) a collapse of the centralized economy; and (4) a settlement shift and population decline.

Renfrew noted the general features of systems collapse, itemizing them as follows: (1) the collapse of the central administrative organization; (2) the disappearance of the traditional elite class; (3) a collapse of the centralized economy; and (4) a settlement shift and population decline. It might take as much as a century for all aspects of the collapse to be completed, he said, and noted that there is no single, obvious cause for the collapse.

But we are today in very real danger of doing just that, of becoming America in name only.

Problems accumulate over a long time while few see what's happening, except the assholes who profit from the disorder. And they add fuel to the fire so gradually no one notices the decline until suddenly everything goes to shit. Then, people die. In job lots.

When we lament the decline of time spent on cooking, we need to be clear what it is that we are lamenting. Many of the female cooks who devoted so many hours to preparing food in the past did so because they did not think their own time was worth much.

Like a candle in the wind, she was, at one minute bright, even brilliant, in her thoughts; in the next moment, her intelligence flickered dimly, illuminating nothing except her own pathetic decline.

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.

In this, they echoed the views of a generation brought up to think of Britain as Great, but now doomed in peacetime to watch the American ascendancy, decolonisation, queues, bureaucracy, socialism and other perceived indignities as the Empire declined.

but even there confidence was waning, notably overseas.

but always the prevailing trend was down.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

As pride increases, fortune declines

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.