Demise – Quotes

Tuvalu’s future at current

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

The rumours of the

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

I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty – flowers, seashells, dragonflies – have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession. Ellen Hopkins

Life is about change,

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

The shortness of life,

The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. When I look ahead, all I can see is my final demise. And they say, But maybe not for seventy or eighty years. And I say, Maybe you, but me, I’m already gone. Elizabeth Wurtzel

My mortal foe can

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England’s hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me. Elizabeth I

The Globalization of humanity

The Globalization of humanity is a natural, biological, evolutionary process. Yet we face an enormous crisis because the most central and important aspect of globalization-its economy-is currently being organized in a manner that so gravely violates the fundamental principles by which healthy living systems are organized that it threatens the demise of our whole civilization. … Read more

Under the pressure of

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations – wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. Edmund Burke

What the reporters are

What the reporters are like! They are mad with excitement at the thought of my approaching demise. Kind Sister Farquhar, my nurse, spends much of her time in throwing them downstairs. But one got in the other day, and asked me if I mind the fact that I must die. Edith Sitwell

I believe that if

I believe that if you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you will hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. This is the sure way to win victories over inner defeat. It … Read more