Decline Quotes

474 Decline quotes by 395 unique authors

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief. — Sigmund Freud
A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession. — Emile M. Cioran
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement. — Oscar Wilde
I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the next in an… — Barack Obama
For no one, in our long decline, So dusty, spiteful and divided, Had quite such pleasant friends as mine, Or loved them half as much… — Hilaire Belloc
Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of… — John Updike
The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a… — Fannie Flagg
Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods. — Charles Nodier
What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its… — Theodor Adorno
Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We musn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't want to think… — Muriel Barbery
It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we… — Julia Cameron
A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline again, but in… — John Steinbeck
Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed the version of… — Meg Rosoff
I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because… — E L Konigsburg
The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises from… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million… — Douglas Adams
Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts. — Diana Palmer

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