Quotes About Downfall

Women are what completely inspire me, and they have also been my downfall.

There is a smell to failure. It is a stench that clings like a miasma. Just as dogs can detect the odor of fear in a human being, so people can sense when a man is on his way down.

Your great good fortune, true, it was your ruin.

The power-hungry individual follows a path to his own destruction.

It was that fatal and perfidious bark,Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark,That sunk so low that sacred head of thine.

Awake, arise or be for ever fall'n.

I have no ideas, only obsessions. Anybody can have ideas. Ideas have never caused anybody's downfall.

If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred.

In Beverly Hills, the faster you climb, the harder you fall.

Well has it been said: the man obsessed Is a cock of the walk in a hurry towards the worst.

When kings fall they fall on top of us.

Alone among America's founders, his is a riches-to-rags story.

The fools are always the architect of their fall and trouble.

To fly too high and fall, to go too deep and get stuck, these are alike symptoms of an overvaluation of the ego that ends in disaster, death, or madness.

The bigger we are, the harder we fall. Despite its hazards some keep on raising their narcissistic profile, wishing to be in the picture all the time, everywhere and at any cost. (Low profile)

There's nothing so bad that it can't grow worse. There's no limit to how bad things can be.

Evil can be destroyed in either direction. Some are meant to be cast down. Others rise, but their elevation is meant to bring about their downfall. Underlying all, as the very cornerstone of human existence, is a universal message of hope to all people, never to give up even when the future looks bleakest. That is why these four corners of faith seem to hold up the whole ceiling, another classic subliminal and powerful message from Michelangelo.

Success has ruined many a man.

As pride increases, fortune declines

But Providence will bring about its own ends by its own means; and if it intends the downfall of a nation, that nation will be so blinded by its pride and other passions as not to see its danger, or how its fall may be prevented.

We had many good directors - John Carpenter, Brian De Palma - but things have become polluted by business, money and bad relationships. The success of the horror genre has led to its downfall.

I cannot countenance destruction as a solution to the threat of destruction. In the long run such a victory would only bring about our own downfall. Jacen

We all know what happens to celebrities when their time is up - rehab and then a stint on VH1.

But where excitement tends to take you up, into the higher, brighter levels of feeling, anxiety pulls you down, making you feel like you have to grip the earth to keep from sliding off as it turns.