Decline Quotes

I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer's disease, and to stand by and watch him decline in his ability to take care of himself.

Apples taste sweetest when they're going.

I've never been the type of artist to plateau or have a big peak in my career and then a big decline.

Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch.

The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.

Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.

After a brief couple of years in the late '70s, public funding for clean energy technologies dried up and has been on the decline ever since.

All testify to the coercion and sacrifice which culture imposes on man. To rely on them and deny the decline is to become even more firmly caught in its fatal coils.

We have the ability now to arrange global economic institutions so that poverty declines to a fraction of what it is now.

The success of Darwinism was accomplished by a decline in scientific integrity.

In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.

Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.

I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race.

There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.

Diminishing returns is the outcome of restriction

God invites. We decline. And because of that single foolhardy decision we spend the rest of our lives ‘declining’.

...we can endure neither our vices nor the remedies needed to cure them.

Do you know why empires fall? Because they can no longer believe their own lies.

The further you descend into a pit, the darker things appear. You can't keep digging to find the light.

Life is Not a perpetual climb towards Greatness.For our family, ourselves, and friends, It is but sad Decay, so, Let every girl die after her Hebé (Ἥβη).And every man after his Aristeia(ἀριστεία).

The only crime is pride.

We are often unaware of the gradual decline and the erosion in our lives but not unaware of the gnawing feeling it brings.

I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.

Most are inclined to recline into a reclining position, in order to enjoy the decline.

Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.