Demise Quotes

The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century. — Vladimir Putin

An autobiography is inherently incomplete unless the last page is written on the eve of the author's demise. — Dan Makaon

Her smiles were blood in the water, his demise the closely lurking shark. — Alessandra Torre

I'm plotting my own demise," she teased, keeping her eyes closed. "Because I know that falling for you will be the death of me. — Chanda Hahn

The best way to stop worrying about your inevitable demise is to dwell on it morbidly until you're so bored that you forget it. — Karen Traviss

Illusory attachment (moha) is indeed what will keep on biting you until the point of your demise! — Dada Bhagwan

We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise,
Getting the big picture, and making it wallet-sized. — Kendrick Lamar

The truth is that the demise of healing came as a result of disobedience to the instructions of Jesus and nothing more. — Praying Medic

As an organization grows and succeeds, it sows the seeds of its own demise by getting boring. — Seth

My body weeps to live
when you make me believe
that someday I will be dead
soul sleepless in graveyard's bed — Munia Khan

A forced silence is a dangerous imposter, painting a canvas of safety while plotting our demise. — Jo Ann Fore

I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios. — Skitch Henderson

Hope is the bait a fish takes which leads to its demise. We hunger for it and do not see what lurks behind. — L.K. Evans

I have yet to discover if you will be my salvation or my demise. — Elise Kova

Mutually assured destruction. — Holly Black

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

Why did I break up with Elvis? It was difficult to watch his slow demise. — Linda Thompson

Mankind's obsession with money and greed has them going down a one way street to their demise. — Steven Magee

His interest, after all, was not in the origin of species but in their demise. — Elizabeth Kolbert

Boasting of wealth and virtue brings your demise. — Lao-Tzu

To our enemies all over the world who plan America's demise, please take my advice. Give up now. No matter what, you will lose. You will lose it all. — Henry Rollins

I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend. — Lady Gaga

The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully. — Jasper Fforde

For today ... Be kind to those in despair.
Your words, thoughts and prayers can be the difference between one's life or demise — Timothy Pina

When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday. — Bill O'Reilly

The freedom-lovers of the world mourn the sad demise of Imam Khomeini. — Ruhollah Khomeini

George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus. — Arthur Levitt Jr

I pray you weep no more my love, let no tears fall for my demise, lift your face to the sky above, and let the sun dry your eyes... — Anthony Ryan

Leaders in business and government, who fail to see the holistic interdependence of our planet, are destined to cause its demise. — Said Elias Dawlabani

I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones. — Helen Mirren

Stereotyping and generating brands around musicians I think contributes to their eventual demise. — Squarepusher

You can only be this high-powered mojo rock band for so long, then you just can't look people in the eye. So, we've projected our own demise. — Billy Corgan

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

Respect for the dead comes second to respect for the living, and I believe no man's demise exempts him from culpability. — Anthony Loyd

Man has been growing more stupid for several thousand years; I myself shall waste no tears at his demise. — George R. Stewart

We have been careless with our pie repertoire. The demise of apple-pear pie with figs and saffron and orengeado pies are tragic losses. — Janet Clarkson

Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise. — Martin Heidegger

Everything new and beautiful seems to arrive already haunted by its own demise. — Caroline Evans

With Zia's controversial demise in 1988, Jinnah was finally spared the false beard Zia kept pinning on the founder's otherwise clean-shaven face. — Nadeem Farooq Paracha

The rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated. — Elon Musk

Is the prey complicit in its own demise? Are we not seduced in some small way by the beauty, the grace, even the dangerous soul of the predator? — Lisa Unger

I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs. — Howard Coble

The single most important lesson I learned is that black people are the cause of black people's demise. — KRS-One

Innocence crafts its own demise. — F.T. McKinstry

Latin food is my guiltiest pleasure and my demise. My trainer hates when I go home to visit my mom and her cooking. — Zulay Henao

I dreamt of the Sun's demise, awoke to a bleak morning. — Anathema

now they are celebrating my demise in taverns I no longer frequent. — Charles Bukowski

Reports of our demise have been greatly exaggerated," Sheppard said. He'd always wanted to use that line. — Jo Graham

I'm a good friend, but I'm a hell of an enemy. As your enemy, I want your demise. When I feel that in my heart it burns till I die. — Mike Tyson

My fear is dying badly, through illness or injury. But what a glorious demise it would be to burn up in space. — William Shatner

The demise of Constellation is not the death of a dream. It's just the end of an illusion. — Henry Spencer

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part. — David Byrne

The purpose of medical schooling was to teach how to save lives, not how to tend to their demise. — Atul Gawande

The demise of the monolithic record industry has been, for a lot of people, really liberating and emancipating. — Moby

The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire. — Chalmers Johnson

Rumors of coal's demise may have been greatly exaggerated. — Alan Johnson

They never saw a thing they liked, they never had a kind word to say and I never stopped listening to them; hence my demise. — Gary O. Thompson

Many difficult things that happen in a marriage relationship are actually part of the enemy's plan set up for its demise. — Stormie O'martian

You don't kick a man when he is down," Bush dictated. "You don't revel in his demise. You don't pile on in life. — Jon Meacham

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it. — Allen Klein

Men have been growing more stupid for several thousand years; I myself shall waste no tears at his demise'- old British man in Earth Abides — George R. Stewart

Tuvalu's future at current levels of global warming is already bleak. Any further temperature increase will spell its total demise. — Enele Sopoaga

We are the wreck of what we have been, and the place of our own future demise. — Jesse Ball

The demise of our community and culture is the fault of sissified men who have been overly influenced by women. — Tony Evans

Nothing is more heart-breaking than the demise of decency. — Guo Moruo

All she could see was her demise and it called out a tempting ruse, offering a suffering less potent than what sickened the living. — B.B. Wynter

Happy marriages are alive and well. The cries of their demise have been highly overrated, and couples happily married do indeed exist. — Fawn Weaver

Success honors the giver, and the taker is cheated by demise. — T.F. Hodge

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise. — Jonathan Sacks

And the sad demise of my father before I saw the light of day. Ulf was — Juliet Marillier

Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated,. — Bill Bradley

witness the sad demise of fundamental Western values. Pride. Order. Personal responsibility. — Richard Russo

All good things pass away. — Philip Pullman

When you are expending much energy on someone else's demise, it's like you weaken your psychic immune system. — Heidi Julavits

Volsky once more had the feeling that the bond between them was indifferent to the demise of bodies. — Andrei Makine

The rumors of the White Sox demise are greatly exaggerated. — Mark Twain

Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated. — Grace Napolitano

By the time of the GDR's demise, two in every 13 citizens were informers. — Luke Harding

Scale of one to ten
How would you rate your demise?
Thanks for your input — Rick Riordan

Restlessness is a fickle catalyst; it can drive you to achieve or it can coax your demise, and sometimes the choice isn't yours — Slash

I think human arrogance will be the demise of civilization. — Adam Ferrara

You are not an "author," you are a writer. If your books are still selling like hotcakes ten years after your demise, THEN you're an author. — H.P. Oliver

Life is about change, it never stops, it's moving and it's moving this human body inexorably towards its demise. — Elizabeth Lesser

The only demise of Shaquille O'Neal will be his age. — Shaquille O'Neal

We have an opponent who wants nothing more than to bring about our demise. — Clinton E. Arnold

As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases. — Peter Morgan

We often give others the tools for our own demise. — Warren Cassell Jr.

My future in-laws are out shopping and plotting my demise, I suppose. — Chelsea Ballinger

The season of my life has changed and the cold chill of winter blows the warning winds of my soon to be demise. — Suzanne Steele

I refuse to wait until my demise to be quoted!!!"

~R. Alan Woods [2012] — R. Alan Woods