Atrophy Quotes
On decline and losing ability
Spiritual decline gets serious attention here, with one quote describing mid-twentieth-century white America through the lens of quiet atrophy.
The type of Alzheimer's Dad has is rare - posterior cortical atrophy or PCA - and it affects his spatial awareness and the way he judges distance. His first symptoms were erratic typing and spelling, but to talk to him,...
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
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'Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
You almost have no choice but to continue to innovate because if you don't, you are likely to atrophy rather than expand.
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Physical atrophy is covered too, as one Bitter reflection on a rare condition shows how illness can gradually affect awareness and movement.
