My message is "Getting older is inevitable. Aging and…

“It's not a love of the old as such. It's simply that the process of aging or deterioration provides the necessary detachment - or…

— Susan Sontag

“Only death can get us out of this and maybe not even death. Maybe it’s too late; we’ll carry this deterioration with us to…

— Philip K. Dick

The human race has today the means for annihilating itself--either in a fit of complete lunacy, i.e., in a big war...or by the careless…

— Max Born

The rapid deterioration of education has been recognized as a national problem for the past several years. Consequently, American businesses must meet the immediate…

— Gregory Balestrero

It was a strange season coaching under that new [Alderson] regime. I felt like I was watching the deterioration of the Mets organization. They…

— Mookie Wilson

I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend to do…

— Everett Ruess

If we wish to influence our own life in a particular direction, which is constantly threatened by the danger of the emergence of alien…

— Viktor Schauberger

...we must strike a balance so that the protection of our irreplaceable heritage becomes as important as its use. The price of economic growth…

— Richard M. Nixon

I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in…

— Kamisese Mara

Perhaps the deterioration of American education is illustrated by the high correlation between the number of years a person has attended school and his…

— Sheldon Richman

The intoxication of the faro drinker only shows itself at first by an increase in noise which is only deafening, and finally by a…

— Gerard De Nerval

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

— Charles de Secondat

The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is…

— Simone de Beauvoir

If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or culture. Even…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“Time erodes us all.”

— Meg Rosoff