Decades Quotes

“The uncertainty wore on him. The conditions in jail--the handcuffs, the noise, the filth, the crowding--mangled his senses. It's likely that, if one must be incarcerated in the United States, a jail in central Maine would be among the more tolerable spots, but to Knight it was torture. "Bedlam" is how he referred to the place. It never got dark in jail; at eleven p.m., the lights merely became a little duller. "I suspect," he noted, "more damage has been done to my sanity in jail, in months; than years, decades, in the woods.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

“The real problem of the world is that the number of the current idiots is much greater than the intellectuals of the past decade all together.”
― Kambiz Shabankare

“When we get down to the very basics of human life we find that we arrive to take a ride on spaceship Earth for several decades and then we leave.”
― Steven Magee

“We knocked on the doors of Hell's darker chamber,
Pushed to the limit, we dragged ourselves in”
― Joy Division

“Days may pass into months, months may pass into years, and years may pass into decades, but I will always keep waiting for you.”
― Avijeet Das

“Only time will tell as we stretch and grow
Our character builds,
Our faces glow.”
― Endreketta H.

“The future I'd dreamed of was just that: a dream. I'd grow old and withered, while he would remain young for centuries, perhaps millennia. At best, I'd have decades with him before I died.

Decades. That was what I was fighting for. A flash in time for them- a drop in the pool of their eons.

So I greedily drank the wine, and I stopped caring about who I was and what had once mattered to me. I stopped thinking about colour, about light, about the green of Tamlin's eyes- about all those things I had still wanted to paint and now would never get to.

I wasn't going to leave this mountain alive.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“The man-made electromagnetic environment is overloaded and has been so for decades.”
― Steven Magee

“In the coming decades, smart people will realize that international travel will end and they will settle onto continents that they are comfortable with being stranded on.”
― Steven Magee

“In the space of several decades the modern human has demolished millions of years of evolution.”
― Steven Magee

“My research is indicating that professional astronomers crossed over the line that divides lawful from illegal decades ago.”
― Steven Magee

“The rapid proliferation of AIDS has it on track to become the new herpes in the coming decades.”
― Steven Magee

“The corrupt government started a silent war on the disabled decades ago.”
― Steven Magee

“At five decades of life, I had outlived many of the children I had grown up with.”
― Steven Magee

“It is hard for the government to apply the rule of law for professional astronomers that have decades of history of breaking numerous laws.”
― Steven Magee

“We must remember how President Trump won the election: He promised something radically different from what had been seen in the decades before.”
― Steven Magee

“Drowning in the doldrums
Of the everyday routine.
Something deep down inside
Struggles to come back up to the surface.”
― Endreketta H.

“And through the years I notice
Subtle changes all around me.
The people come and go like the ebb and flow of the tides.
Those who remain seem physically changed.
Their skin becomes pale and sallow, almost transparent.
Their hairline recedes and begins to thin,
their jaw slackens as their bellies spread
From the endless sitting in chairs
for meetings about subjects that five years from now
will only be a distant memory.”
― Endreketta H.

“I live my Life like The Roarin' 20's in the 2020's”
― Kevin Kolenda

“Tracing the history of herders-farmers clashes goes back as far as the early 90s. Sometimes it takes several decades to decode the meaning of something that has been with you for a long period. Even in the 200 Naira note, it was boldly drawn where cows are heading to eat farm produce. It was boldly embedded, but we are just realizing it today, maybe because we don't take note or don't care to notice.”
― Olawale Daniel

“Occupational sickness may entitle you to compensation, even if the sickness took decades to be correctly diagnosed.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“Kids are calling the 1990s the late 1900s. Just sayin.”
― Richie Norton

“It seems the medical profession gave Long COVID the name of Chronic Fatigue and feigned not knowing what caused it for decades, even though Coronavirus was discovered in the 1960’s!”
― Steven Magee

“Coronavirus was an epidemic in some countries for decades before it became a global pandemic.”
― Steven Magee

“It seems the government was marketing Coronavirus as the Flu for decades!”
― Steven Magee

“I have lived in the USA for over two decades and no one has ever pointed a gun at me.”
― Steven Magee

“It is entirely possible that society will collapse in the coming decades. The wide-ranging problems caused by global warming are accelerating.”
― Steven Magee

“Life journey towards completion of decades, my life that someone else lived.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Decades of desecrating Hawaii’s most sacred spaces with industrial astronomical observatories atop spiritual Hawaiian mountains appears to be in the process of ending.”
― Steven Magee

“Some Things you only understand Decades later.”
― Sino Melo