inevitable downfall Quotes

It is the just decree of Heaven that a traitor never sees his danger till his ruin is at hand.

Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.

Only in our darkest hour do we find the light. Humans are destructive by nature. The world is lacking balance. Terrors are beginning to triumph over the simple joys. Stand back and watch, because you're going to be here when we fall.

My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.

Just remember, Callum when you’re floating up and up in your bubble, that bubbles have a habit of bursting. The higher you climb, the further you have to fall’ - Lynette McGregor

If you're at the top, then brace for the fall.

It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It's more interesting, and doesn't take so long.

All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.

Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.

They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall.

It is the nature of walls that they should fall.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.

You can play from the wrong position for a long time with good hands, but eventually it's going to catch up with you.

All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have reached their highest point, they are in their lowest ruin, for they cannot last for long in such a state. Such is the end for those who cannot moderate their fortune and prosperity with reason and temperance.

In summary, our world is doomed.