Downfall Quotes

“Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“This is how it feels to be Anakin Skywalker, forever:
The first dawn of light in your universe brings pain.
The light burns you. It will always burn you. Part of you will always lie upon black glass sand beside a lake of fire while flames chew upon your flesh.
You can hear yourself breathing. It comes hard, and harsh, and it scrapes nerves already raw, but you cannot stop it. You can never stop it. You cannot even slow it down.
You don’t even have lungs anymore. Mechanisms hardwired into your chest breathe for you. They will pump oxygen into your bloodstream forever.
Lord Vader? Lord Vader, can you hear me?”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

“True devotion and humility is when you carelessly allow yourself to fall in love with things you consider will make you look inferior, which in essence, makes you superior.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“If you don’t take more risks with time, your business will become stagnant and can start its downfall.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.”
― Lois Lowry, A Summer to Die

“Your downfall is a preparation for your up-rise. If you don’t know this secret, you will remain on the floor, blaming your legs instead of your head!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Nichts ist stabiler als die Fahrt in den Abgrund.”
― Juli Zeh, Spieltrieb

“There is no sanctity. This is the downfall of innocence.”
― Nadège Richards, Asylum 54.0

“Watching, she had felt unusually and keenly alive, alive the way a knife is sharp, so that the humiliation she was enduring was perfect, like the paring of skin from a hard apple.”
― Sonya Hartnett, Butterfly

“If a ruler who wants to act honourably is surrounded by unscrupulous men, his downfall is inevitable.”
― C.J. Sansom, Dissolution

“Life can beat you down and at times make you feel unlovable it can distort your sense to the point where you don't recognize yourself anymore.”
― Aireen C. Pontillo

“Invisible factors in my life would inevitably lead to my downfall. I felt I had known this all along. There was no escape.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“The fool and ignorant lose the best ones and turn the ugly ones their enemy, whether upon the collective or individual level. Consequently, it leads to downfall.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“When your shadow grows bigger than you, know that your downfall is near.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live

“We sometimes wish for the prosperity of someone who is secretly praying for our downfall.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Remember always, that downfall of a man is never the end of his life. This should give you inner strength, a desirable will to rise any time you fall.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Downfall of man is not his final destiny.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Downfall of a man is never his final destiny.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I want to make a ballet that really means something to me. Something that's not just about being decorative--something that shows the world what it's like to . . . I don't know, to fall in love, to have this experience that's supposed to be the epitome of a woman's life and have it be the best thing that ever happened to you--and then to have it become your downfall.”
― Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Ballerinas

“Mans downfall is women. Women's biggest mistake and downfall Is being friends with other women.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Most people are responsible for their downfall or it is people close to them.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Some people ​rise by causing others to fall down.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Wrinkles are a sign of life and the love we receive from far above. Cherish them all, and don’t allow them to become your downfall. After all, wrinkles are here to teach us all”
― Etheria Divine

“The cocky always have the farthest to fall.”
― Seanan McGuire, Magic for Nothing

“They were betting on my downfall, but they fell down while betting on it. And I'm still standing.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Corsican Checkmate by Stewart Stafford

With one loyal warhorse,
I could snatch victory!
You force an ultimatum,
An eagle downed for wrens.

Are you battle steeds,
Or brood mares of a new stallion?
Or do you take my knight,
In impotent checkmate?

I, Napoleon, ruled Europe,
From Brest to Brest-Litovsk,
A chicken feather’s stroke,
And my empire falls.

You offer exile to Elba,
Reaping rich estates
Which I secured for you,
Silence is my thanks.

Give me your vile scrap,
No death warrant, but close,
I’ll scratch my mighty name,
Here’s my blood — begone!
This about the abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte.

© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“I take a deep breath and consider what the counselor at Canyon Ranch said about my ego, my vanity.

That my constant awareness of what other people think of me and my decisions was ultimately a huge part of my downfall. (p39)”
― Stacey Ballis, Wedding Girl

“Cleopatra is said to have brought down the curtain on an age, although of course from the Egyptian perspective Antony too could be said to have done so. It is easy to forget he was Cleopatra's undoing every bit as much as she was his.”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life

“خُدی کا زوال


کوئی سچ چھپائے جا رہا،

  ظالم نظام کے خاطر،

کوئی جھوٹ بتائے جا رہا،

  اعلیٰ مقام کے خاطر۔


یہاں ہر شخص پہنتا ہے،

  نئی پہچان ہر شام،

تو بھی خود کو کھونا سیکھ ہی لے،

  دنیاوی آرام کے خاطر۔


مشعل اٹھائی تھی جس نے،

  خدمتِ عوام کے خاطر،

جلا ڈالا اُسی کا گھر،

  قومی انتقام کے خاطر۔


بجھا دے اب اس لَو کو،

  اب کیا ہی فائدہ،

کون خود اپنا قتل لکھے،

  کسی نُورانی الہام کے خاطر۔


راستہ ایک ہی بچا ہے تیرے لیے،

  مناسب ایک ہی سزا ہے تیرے لیے؛

نوکر بن، ناک رگڑ،

  نیست و نابود کر دے اپنی روح کو؛


کبھی مالِ حرام کے خاطر،

کبھی شہرت، کبھی انعام کے خاطر،

کبھی اس کھوکھلے معاشرے کے

  کھوکھلے احترام کے خاطر۔”
― Adeel Ahmed Khan

“Base Fortune, now I see, that in thy wheel There is a point, to which when men aspire, They tumble headlong down: that point I touch'd, And, seeing there was no place to mount up higher, Why should I grieve at my declining fall?— Farewell, fair queen: weep not for Mortimer, That scorns the world, and, as a traveller, Goes to discover countries yet unknown.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Edward II