Richard Pryor Quotes

I kicked off... and things went on from there... down and down.

Our act started at the bottom and went downhill.

Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

I knew people were going to see me see deteriorate before their eyes.

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.

It could become much worse.

You watch guys live through their peaks, and then unfortunately, you've got to come down from that peak.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Human life moves only in one direction - toward disease, damage, and death. The best you can hope for is to remain stagnant or, in certain cases, return to a previous condition when things weren't as bad as they've become for you.

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.

I do think there is this danger that our society has made its peace with decline. I'd like to jolt them out of their complacency a little bit.

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.

The top of a pinnacle now, firewood soon

Perhaps the next and the next will inherit his virtues but in time the worst will take over.

What's got badly, goes badly.

If you're on the top for 10 years it's going to seem like you have more crashes that someone on the top for three years. If you don't win as much in your ninth or 10th year it's going seem like you are on your way out.

If you're not getting better, you're getting worse.

To get better, you have to get worse.