Demise Quotes

We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise, Getting the big picture, and making it wallet-sized.

To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend, and once you become his friend, all his defences come down. Then you can choose the most fitting method for his demise.

My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.

Restlessness is a fickle catalyst; it can drive you to achieve or it can coax your demise, and sometimes the choice isn't yours

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

The freedom-lovers of the world mourn the sad demise of Imam Khomeini.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.

Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.

We have found ourselves in the period of "interregnum": the old works no more, the new is not yet born. But the awareness that without it being born we are all marked for demise, is already much alive, as is the awareness that the hard nut we must urgently crack is not the presence of "too many poor", but "too many rich".

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

We are our own wicked gods with little 'g's' and big dicks, sadistic and constantly inflicting a slow demise.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

Reason is immortal, all else mortal.

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

I'd always felt like I was going to take part in adventures in my life. That's what led me to diving in the shipwreck to begin with. But when you're faced with your own demise, you have to accept that you are vulnerable and that you are only here for a set period of time.

I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in.

Nothing is more heart-breaking than the demise of decency.

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.

A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.

What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.

Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?

Every art form changes, often at rates and in ways that cause discomfort to its devotees. But the arts also have a remarkable ability to withstand and absorb those changes, and to prove wrong the prophecies of their demise.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend.

the rumors of the White Sox demise are greatly exaggerated.

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.

Stress is the worst thing. That's the ultimate demise of any good thing.

I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.

I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs.

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.

The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire.

Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.

And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine.

Although the 'New York Times' annually declares that Broadway is on its deathbed, news of its demise is greatly exaggerated. There's a lot of life yet in the old tart.

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.

Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated.

When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.

A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.