Quote by Lao Tzu

“Drag them out into the light and they fail to thrive.”

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“That's the way it is at some point in life. An inevitable consequence of living. A lot of things begin falling away.”

— Charles Frazier

“A life is no less valuable or beloved if one lives in an age of decline, than in an age of progress.”

— Mathew Barrett Gross

“Cultural decline is not inevitable.”

— National Endowment for the Arts

“When the old ways disappear, as perhaps they must, it is regrettable that so little is saved from them, so that those who practice…

— Philip L. Wagner

“Overall, it seems that we have to accept that Western civilization will decline. It is, essentially, inevitable.”

— Bruce Charlton

“Things cultivated over such a long time don't just vanish into nothingness.”

— Haruki Murakami

“They do live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface change, and frivolous external things.”

— Emily Brontë

“Life was not a reversible commodity. Things passed away, never to return: species, hopes, years.”

— Clive Barker

“A well-tended garden will flourish.”

— Malva Freymuth Tarasewicz

“Those on the decline always criticize those on the rise.”

— Karen Essex

“Things grow quickly are often more easily destroyed than those which take a long time.”

— Mitch Albom