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Quotes About Demise

Science and technology are the keys to both our longevity and our demise. Our entire existence on this planet is a double-edged sword.
~ Rhys Darby
Something's died in me," she goes. "It took a long time for it to do it, but it's dead. You've killed something, just like you'd took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.
~ Raymond Carver
There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.
~ Peter Morgan
In fact, the American Mastodon vanished around thirteen thousand years ago. Its demise was part of a wave of disappearances that has come to be known as the megafauna extinction. This wave coincided with the spread of modern humans and, increasingly, is understood to have been a result of it. In this sense, the crisis Cuvier discerned just beyond the edge of recorded history was us.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
Amerind civilization, for all practical purposes, disappeared. The Amerind civilization in North America "fell" because the population of North America changed.
~ Arthur Kemp
nothing dies of old age. Everything dies of something.
~ Arturo Arias
Corporate America couldn't be more excited about the demise of the record companies.
~ Michael Rapino
When patriarchy dismisses us, it encourages our murderers. When radical lesbian feminist theory dismisses us, it encourages its own demise.
~ Audre Lorde
Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.
~ Grace Napolitano
Death cancels all engagements.
~ Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
Healer Myrim made no attempt to conceal the fact that Orthallen's treachery had not surprised her. Nor did she conceal that his demise gave her a certain grim satisfaction. But then, she might well be forgiven such uncharitable thoughts; she was one of the four Healers who were tending Talia's wounds.
~ Mercedes Lackey
A few societies have perished from
~ Bertrand Russell
I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's funner that way.
~ Rufus Wainwright
What are you smiling about?" Benedict demanded. She didn't bother to glance up as she replied, "I'm plotting your demise.
~ Julia Quinn
My fear is dying badly, through illness or injury. But what a glorious demise it would be to burn up in space.
~ William Shatner
It was cruelly ironic that his brilliant brain cells eventually led to his demise.
~ Faye Kellerman
Still, in the end, we all die just the same.
~ Haruki Murakami
Technology is going to revolutionize almost every sector, leading to the demise of many traditional professions. Economic and political power will be determined less by a country's size than by its technological superiority.
~ Klaus Schwab
The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.
~ N. T. Wright
This is the way the world ends, this is the way the world ends, this is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
~ T S Eliot
Evil will destroy itself.
~ Rob Gronkowski
The enemy digs in. The great showdown is not for today or for tomorrow. In fact it began on the very first day, and will not end with the demise of the enemy but quite simply when the latter has come to realize, for a number of reasons, that it is in his interest to terminate the struggle and acknowledge the sovereignty of the colonized people.
~ Frantz Fanon
The two great constants of life. Food and death.
~ Brandon Sanderson