Quotes About Life Going Downhill

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Humiliation is about shame. Becoming humble is about being of use to others. It helps you get off the self-pity pot and stop wallowing around in your own crap.

Amy Hatvany

#5. 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

#6. They were brilliant, widely read, incisive, and effortlessly effective analysts and programmers. Which is another reason why, ultimately, so many people died.

Charles Stross

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

Sloane Crosley

#8. 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

#9. "I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)

Babe Ruth

#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. Some beliefs serve you as you walk this physical plain, but others do not.

Vivian Amis

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

Patrick Branwell Bronte

#20. 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

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

Dean Koontz

#22. 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

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

Buffy Andrews

#24. If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.

Kevin O'Leary

#25. 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

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

Russ Harris

#27. 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