Quotes About Going Downhill In Life

#1. Sir, sometimes I feel there are no heroes, no villains. Just men, ordinary men locked up by circumstances, good or bad. This I truly believe, and I suggest that you believe it too.

Terry Pratchett

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain.

Louis Pasteur

#7. 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

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

Sloane Crosley

#9. When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.

Julie Harris

#10. 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

#11. In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#12. There is a reason for everything.

Bailee Madison

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. [Jack] Kerouac looking at the fellaheen worlds. Looking at other cultures. Welcoming it, curious. Really stepping outside his own limited, whatever that narrow world was. It's amazing to think we can do it. We can have that same kind of trajectory of mind.

Anne Waldman

#16. There is a constant need for new systems and new software.

Marc Andreessen

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. Only when you are able to hear the songs of a tree will you be able to understand the magnificence and magic of life.

Debasish Mridha

#20. Chicken is Good! It tastes like chicken.

Jean Craighead George

#21. Given a rich environment, learning becomes like the air - it's in and around us.

Sandra Dodd

#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. There was a faded brown stain on the carpet and I wondered if a patient had once taken a shit in here in the middle of a session. I

David Wong

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

Buffy Andrews

#27. 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

#28. Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.

Marat Safin

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

Dean Koontz

#30. 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

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

Patrick Branwell Bronte

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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