Emotional Decline Quotes

Once the pathological low self-esteem goes, that's when things go downhill.

A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.

Love dwindles by pairing.

Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much. Flora, whom he had left a lily, had become a peony; but that was not much. Flora, who had seemed enchanting in all she said and thought, was diffuse and silly. That was much. Flora, who had been spoiled and artless long ago, was determined to be spoiled and artless now. That was a fatal blow.

He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.

As you age, feelings do diminish.

But some day sooner or later our passion would have cooled - inevitably - it's the way with everything human.

The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.

The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.

Love decreases when it ceases to increase.

Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone.

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse; always harder.

I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy.

You get lazy, you get sad. Start givin' up. Plain and simple.

Since coming to the major leagues, my passion toward baseball had started to decrease.

The writing is the first thing that goes when I get a little down. Just like... in terms of how I feel, it's like the writing is in the top five percent, and then that's the first part that gets shaved off, and I start down a little bit.

Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

I used to walk like a giant on the land. Now I feel like a leaf floating in a stream