Quotes About Downfall

He has gone to the demnition bowwows.

Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job.

When the structure of a civilisation is rotten, it is always the masses that bring about its downfall. It is at such a juncture that their chief mission is plainly visible, and that for a while the philosophy of number seems the only philosophy of history.

In consequence of the purely destructive nature of their power crowds act like those microbes which hasten the dissolution of enfeebled or dead bodies. When the structure of a civilisation is rotten, it is always the masses that bring about its downfall.

To many today Oscar is a gay icon who can do no wrong, but, in truth, he was human, multifaceted and no saint. Part of the tragedy of Oscar Wilde is that it is now almost impossible to view him except through the prism of his downfall.

It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.

Your very success is what's going to destroy you. The survival mechanism that you've developed is the very thing which will cause the downfall of your subtle physical body.

My journey was not hard because I have seen stardom and the downfall very closely in my career.

I feel when a new comer acts in his first film, he starts feeling top of world and nature changes due to the stardom. And then downfall starts to happen.

Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants.

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

He that climbs highest had the greatest fall.

The enemy's gate was down.

It falls to the lot of even the most glorious flags to be thrown in the mud. Glory, what men call glory, is often thick with mud.

I leave you two things, which, if you hold fast to them shall preserve you from all error: the Book of Allah, and my Sunna. Your downfall begins with your departure from these two.

Tragedies are stories that usually begin fairly happily and then steadily go downhill, until all of the characters are dead, wounded, or otherwise inconvenienced.

A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.

Avarice and luxury, those pests which have ever been the ruin of every great state.

Good people don't rush in to do evil where angels fear to tread; instead, they start by straying only a small way away from their moral center, and each successive step down is hardly different, barely noticeable, until it is too late and their behavior is shocking and may even be…awful.

Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.

That inability to discover whether you jumped or were pushed brings about a deadened gaze and a downfall all it's own.

When men are considered for leadership positions, the same traits that predict their downfall are commonly mistaken - even celebrated - as a sign of leadership or talent.

A friend is someone who gets in your way when you are on your way down.

Hugo Strange's downfall.