Deterioration Quotes

“I can't believe that I changed so little. I expected to look old and hollow and gray, but I guess it's only me on the inside that has shriveled and deteriorated.”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice

“Time erodes us all.”
― Meg Rosoff, What I Was

“Love is pointless. It’s the same sad sad story of with the same inevitable ending of miserable deterioration.”
― Arnold Arre, After Eden

“Fornication and adultery unleash destructive consequences into a person's life:
• Poverty;
• Lack of perception;
• Loss of respect and mutual acceptance;
• Children with shattered futures;
• Dullness of the senses and of the intellect;
• Deterioration of health.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The worst of it is that while we continue to sink deeper into the muck and mire that we’ve created, in the very descent itself we ignorantly declare that in reality we are rising. And until desperation has crippled us sufficiently to confess the lie that we are lifting ourselves out of this mess, and until the panic of utter hopelessness has driven us to completely surrender all of the pathetic contrivances that we’ve fashioned that have put us there, we will never realize that God has readied solid ground that stands but a single step away”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“الذين يرفضون واقعهم لا يتدهورون، فإن من أبرز صفات التدهور أن تستسلم لم أنت فيه، وأن ترضى بكل هوان”
― مصطفى أمين, أفكار ممنوعة

“If we are with someone out of choice, we should act accordingly, and choose to communicate rather than deteriorate.”
― lauren klarfeld

“THE IVY GREEN

Oh, a dainty plant is the Ivy green,
That creepeth o’er ruins old!
Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold.
The wall must be crumbled, the stone decayed,
To pleasure his dainty whim;
And the mouldering dust that years have made,
Is a merry meal for him.
       Creeping where no life is seen,
       A rare old plant is the Ivy green.  

Fast he stealeth on, though he wears no wings,
And a staunch old heart has he.
How closely he twineth, how tight he clings
To his friend the huge Oak Tree!
And slily he traileth along the ground,
And his leaves he gently waves,
As he joyously hugs and crawleth round
The rich mould of dead men’s graves.
      Creeping where grim death has been,
     A rare old plant is the Ivy green.

Whole ages have fled and their works decayed,
And nations have scattered been;
But the stout old Ivy shall never fade,
From its hale and hearty green.
The brave old plant in its lonely days,
Shall fatten upon the past;
For the stateliest building man can raise,
Is the Ivy’s food at last.
Creeping on where time has been,
       A rare old plant is the Ivy green.”
― Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

“Deterioration of energy was not my idea.”
― Petra Hermans

“As I studied the mass more closely, I began to feel that it was not the product of random accumulation but that it actually had a coherent form all of its own; and while the individual items were dirty and deteriorating, taken together they were like a strange piece of art.”
― Yōko Ogawa, 小川 洋子 (From: "Revenge")

“To anyone else, the appearance of the village might have been cause for alarm, but to Miuko, who had only ever known such deterioration, it was beautiful in its ordinariness.”
― Traci Chee, A Thousand Steps into Night

“I no longer take any of the prescriptions from my doctors. The bulk of the prescriptions made me sicker, not better. I had seen numerous doctors in the previous two decades for my progressive deterioration in health. None of them prescribed Hawaii! On reflection, none of them were competent in diagnosing the root cause of my deteriorating health and prescribing the correct treatment. My story with the medical profession is common.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“Insanity at its best is believing that we can reinvent the truth. Insanity at its worst is to expend our lives attempting to reinvent the truth that the reinvention always fails. And if there’s one truth that we cannot afford to reinvent, it’s the truth that our society is filled with the best and worst of both.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Morals cannot negotiate with the tenets propagated by a deteriorating culture. Be assured that making the choice to engage in any such ‘supposed’ negotiations will kill the very morals that we’ve spent our lives claiming to defend.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Many people villainize those who have stood against corrupt systems and have faced the brutal tyranny that is unleashed when people of integrity stand against the sinister agendas of the depraved. Others have blasted those who refused to align themselves with the prolific propagation of toxic ideals and have subsequently faced the wrath of those who (out of their own fear) demand blind adherence to those ideals. Yet, the greatest madness is not found in the fact that people do these things. Rather, the greatest madness is found in the fact that we do nothing about the fact that they’re doing these things.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“At my age, my mind confidently says it can be done. My body shakes it head and says it can’t. And while I typically complete the task that my body said couldn’t be done, my mind ends up regretting the pain that my body generously sends its way.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“They are slowly taking my fine motor skills. The ability to write slowly degrading. My notes deteriorating to that of a school child then toddler, then undecipherable. Each loop of an ‘e’ starts looking like a failing heart monitor.”
― Tom Dineen, Restart Required