Quotes About Downfall

I've just fallen on some bad luck and landed jelly side down.

half the town would claim they'd seen it coming, just because they thrived on downfalls of any sort.

In 1900, Europe accounted for a quarter of the world's population. By 2060, it may account for just 6%—and almost a third of these will be more than 65 years old." Europe does face severe demographic problems, but the size of a population is not highly correlated with power, and "predictions of Europe's downfall have a long history of failing to materialize.

Capote is one of those people who represents something larger than himself. I think that his ambition, his kind of success, and the downfall that followed are very contemporary.

Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.

Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall

Celebrity is a pretty stunning thing. At first I was like 'They love me! Oh, I love them, too.' And suddenly, I was tap-dancing on my pedestal and it was whack! Facedown in the dirt.

We are not climbing Jacob's ladder to some heavenly perfection, but stumbling downhill towards Ragnarok.

A few societies have perished from

You who occupy the mountain summit, though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down. Jeremiah 49:16

McCarthy's drinking and his arrogance were finally his downfall—he flew too close to the sun. As chairman of the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, he went after the State Department and the Voice of America. His tactics were always the same—bluster replaced reason.

Listen, our history is a history...of failed revolutions. Always, in the end, someone was bought or someone turned traitor. We are a nation of traitors. We are a nation of traitors...we delight in seeing the downfall of others, even friends.

I went down like a tray of dishes

I had a great job, living a great lifestyle... and just started doing the wrong things, getting a little bit cocky.

The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his great sickening cupRecklessness and vanity,Until from his high crest headlongHe plummets to the dust of hope.

The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.

Man is depicted again and again as embracing evil, as being the instigator of his own downfall.

He bore a certain "hubris," she thought, of the kind that carries with it the seeds of its own destruction. Everything about Robert's personality— from his abrupt, jerky way of walking to such little things as the making of a salad dressing—displayed, she thought, "a great need to declare his preeminence.

Pride goeth before destruction," he quoted, "and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Evil will destroy itself.

La soberbia nunca baja de donde sube, porque siempre cae de donde subió.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

America is the very incarnation of doom. She will drag the whole world down to the bottomless pit. He

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.