235 Quotes About Decline

The signal-fires of warningThey blaze, but none regard;And on through night to morningThe world runs ruinward.

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

Hello a year in Space, hello cognitive decline.

When you are the central character in a seemingly boiling pit of “busy-ness” the time will come when the pace of decline cannot be countered. You build yourself the circumstances of ultimate failure by failing to grow, by failing to act on your learnings.

Absorption in ease and entertainment is a sure sign of dissipation and decline.

I have the not altogether unsatisfying impression that civilisation is collapsing around me.Is it my age, I wonder, or the age we live in? I am not sure. Civilisations do collapse, after all, but on the other hand people grow old with rather greater frequency.

Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemos.

Z is for zealotry: national pride like an infinite zipline, hyperdrive, the fastest way down.

You think the things you can touch and feel are the things that are real, but they are not. Over time, they all get old and decline. The people, the houses, the rocks and the mountains: one day they will all crumble. This is because they are not as real as the things that last forever. It is another one of the lessons we come to teach.