Quotes About Decline

For some reason, ever since I was a little kid, I wake with the most energy of the day, and it slowly declines from there.

Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.

As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.

Our act started at the bottom and went downhill.

Paradoxically, just at the point when racist attitudes were declining in society and many ethnic groups were integrating successfully, our political leaders became obsessed with racism.

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.

Palin seems to have forgotten that her poll ratings have plummeted since the summer of 2011.

Beauty is but the beginning of terror. We can barely endure it and are awed when it declines to destroy us.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul. The position men have given to Jesus, now for many centuries of history, is a position of authority. It characterizes themselves. It cannot alter the eternal facts.

I remember the newspapers dying like huge moths. No one wanted them back. No one missed them.

from 2007 to 2010, median wealth—the wealth of those in the middle—fell by almost 40 percent

By contrast, these Princeton students, many of them sporting the cocked hats of their clubs, were deprived, in a sense, of this kind of knowledge, and had no comprehension that the bourgeois way of life was in fast decline;

Aquí todo va de mal en peor.

It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.

Each child marked a decline in the security of their life.

Civilizations grow and change and decline - they aren't remade.

From oriole to crow, note the decline In music. Crow is realist. But, then, Oriole, also, may be realist.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within

Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.

Signore e signori, che cos'è la morte? In realtà non solo l'estinzione dell'individuo o gli attimi del trapasso, ma già il lungo declino che la precede, quel rilassamento che si dilata negli anni; il periodo in cui un uomo c'è ancora, ma allo stesso tempo non c'è più e in cui, anche se la sua statura è ormai andata a farsi benedire, può ancora dare a intendere di esistere. Signore e signori, è questo il modo sopraffino con cui la natura ha regolato la nostra morte!

What is death? Fundamentally it is not extinction and those seconds when life ends, but the slow decline that precedes it, that creeping debility that extends over years: the time in which a person is still there and yet not there, in which he can still imagine that although his prime is long since past, it lingers yet. So circumspectly has nature organized our death!