Demise Quotes

Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.

Civilizations die from suicide, not murder

President Obama deserves our unalloyed praise for hastening Osama bin Laden's demise.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Losing and dying: it's the same thing.

Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.

America is on her deathbed.

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

Civilization is coming to an end, you understand.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.

It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF. . . . It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN.

Often, when I became a consultant to a federal agency, that precipitated its demise.

Pride ruined the angels.

Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby of the Bernard Gursky Tower and, as he failed to rise on the third, he was duly buried.

Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.

I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'.

Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead.

Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.

My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die.

You don't want to be on a show that no one wants to see, and then think your phone is going to be ringing off the hook to do other jobs. I'm not tethered to the fact that my demise may be reached this season or next season, or whatever.

The sudden hand of Death close up mine eye!