Erin Morgenstern Quotes

Today's empire is tomorrow's ashes...

Every empire eventually falls.

But the line of thought that I'd been chasing for several days was implicit in the ruins of the old Roman Empire, which gradually destroyed itself by substituting the faith in a legion of miraculous words for the strength of armies and the weight of walls.

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

Look at the history of empires. They come and they go. They ebb and they flow.

This [American] empire will not last. No empire does. If empires lasted, the whole world would be speaking ancient Persian today.

All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.

The main motivation was to explore the empire's falling. I mean 'Duck City' is like an allegory for the Western Empire or the United States. And I was thinking what happens when it falls and declines like the Roman Empire.

Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.

All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history.

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

The best instituted governments carry in them the seeds of their own destruction; and though they grow and improve for a time, they will soon tend visibly to their dissolution. Every hour that they live is an hour less that they have to live.

Empires can only decline when other nations decline and make way for them.

These different blocs in the Turkish Empire...always conspired against Turkey; because of the hostility of these native peoples, Turkey has lost province after province - Greece, Serbia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Egypt, and Tripoli. In this way, the Turkish Empire has dwindled almost to nothing.

But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.

The war is going to end because we're gonna have such a political and financial havoc here with the devaluation of our dollar, because we just can't keep affording it. This is usually how empires end, by spending too much money maintaining their empire. We're in 130 countries, we have 700 bases around the world, and it's going to come to an end. I want it to come to an end more gracefully and peacefully, follow the constitution, and follow a more sensible foreign policy.

One of the things that I'm fascinated about generally is the rise and fall of everything, from civilizations to families to companies.

Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains.

Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

The thing that's really important to understand is, the last thing an empire traditionally does is drive itself into bankruptcy. You've seen that with the great empires.

Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.