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.

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

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.

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.

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