Life Is Going Downhill Quotes

#1. When your life is going downhill, it doesn't get better just because you want it to. Nor can you will it to be better. Your life will only get better when you get better.

Iyanla Vanzant

#2. The whole world of 'Game of Thrones' was realized with such detail, with directors and writers who really geeked out and really loved all the little bits of it.

Harry Lloyd

#3. A guy comes home from college to find his mother sleeping with his uncle, and there's a ghost running around. Write it good, it's Hamlet; write it bad, it's Gilligan's Island.

Lorne Michaels

#4. I don't know why anyone likes sledding in the first place." I said. "Life goes downhill enough without speeding the process along.

Lemony Snicket

#5. An easy life is like quicksand:Before you know it, you're trapped and can't move, can't breathe, can't get to where you really wanted to go. Don't coast unless you're rolling downhill on a bicycle.

Jessica Hagy

#6. Once you break one taboo, others soon come thumgbling down. Once you start rolling downhill, you carry on rolling until you reach the lowest point. For someone with no aim in life and who has never known love, leading a respectable life seems utterly pointless and unbearable.

Rika Yokomori

#7. Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.

Guy De Maupassant

#8. How I Handle Chaos when you awake to find your life in disarray, crumbling apart tumbling like rocks rolling downhill into a rapid avalanche pick up your broken scattered life and put it together again The Nakedness of Arrogance

Jerry T. Johnson

#9. The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.

Robert Musil

#10. From the moment you become a spectator, everything is downhill. It is a life that ends before the cheering and the shouting die.

George Sheehan

#11. Facts and credibility only support persuasion.

Dan S. Kennedy

#12. I never understand when people say, 'School days are the best of your life.' So it's all downhill from 16? How depressing.

Marsha Thomason

#13. Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

Sloane Crosley

#14. I shall be a carrion monster, he whispered into the coral shell of her ear, an organ of women he found unspeakably moving in its soft, whorling vortex, and which always seemed to him an invitation to adventure. He very softly kissed her lobe.

Richard Flanagan

#15. My name is Magnus Chase. I'm sixteen years old. This is the story of how my life went downhill after I got myself killed.

Rick Riordan

#16. It had been reported that Tanuki fell from the sky using his scrotum as a parachute.

Tom Robbins

#17. If you decide to just go with the flow, you'll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big pile of sludge and a life of unhappiness. You'll end up doing what everyone else is doing.

Sean Covey

#18. I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Clara Barton

#19. I had no schedule, no plan for today or the next, or the week after. Everything in my life just seemed to kind of roll together, collect speed and go thundering downhill.

Shannon Olson

#20. We are all just actors trying to control and manage our public image, we act based on how others might see us.

Erving Goffman

#21. It was the most fun I've ever had on a movie. It was one of the happiest times in my life. I was living in New York, and I really enjoyed acting at the time. Also, it's funny because that was also the time when I went downhill.

Mickey Rourke

#22. Downhill. Thoughts of suicide to stop it all now while I am still in control and aware of the world around me. But then I think of Charlie waiting at the window. His life is not mine to throw away. I've just burrowed it for a while, and now I'm being asked to return it.

Daniel Keyes

#23. The more importance we place on avoiding unpleasant feelings in life, the more our life tends to go downhill.

Russ Harris

#24. As though I had been going steadily downhill, imagining that I was going uphill. So it was in fact. In public opinion I was going uphill, and steadily as I got up it, life was ebbing away from me ... And now the work's done, there's only death.

Leo Tolstoy

#25. The condition of sleep is profoundly contradictory. It is a precious good ... but it is a good like none other, because to obtain it, one must seemingly give up the imperative to have it.

Emily Martin

#26. Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art.

Maurice Sendak

#27. Climax: It's all downhill from here.

Buffy Andrews

#28. Ash blinked. "Are you raiding the cellars now, Goodfellow?"
"Me? Stealing?" Puck flashed a devious grin and popped another fruit into his mouth. "In the house of my ancient enemy? What gave you that idea?" He plucked another fruit and tossed it to me with a wink.

Julie Kagawa

#29. Things are going downhill with you!' he said to himself, and laughed about it, and as he was saying it, he happened to glance at the river, and he also saw the river going downhill, always moving on downhill, and singing and being happy through it all.

Hermann Hesse

#30. The recreational golfer who gives it careful thought will conclude that the favorite golf hole in his life played downhill, gradually or severely, and normally was downwind as well.

Dan Jenkins

#31. Sometimes your life rolls away with you, like a big stone going downhill fast,

Dean Koontz

#32. Life's a ride in a car going downhill, and the car's got no steering wheel. So all you can do is try to guide it with your weight.
Sometimes you make the turns you wanna make. Sometimes, you hit the tree.

Charlie Carillo

#33. Life is a downward journey; all concur in saying it carries us downhill.

Patrick Branwell Bronte

#34. A crack of lightning, an explosion of thunder, the sound of pounding rain.

Marie Lu

#35. I suppose we don't rely on comparison enough to tell us whom it is that we are talking to. We give people the liberty of fashioning themselves in the moment-a span of time that is so much more manageable, stageable, controllable than is a lifetime.

Amor Towles

#36. Sometimes, when one communicates with others, one produces results.

Alex Flinn