The Old World Is Dying Quotes

#1. The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters

Antonio Gramsci

#2. There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being.

Gautama Buddha

#3. Growing older is a blurred birth certificate that only can take us to this world's perplexed journey, but it cannot smear the letters of the epitaph

Munia Khan

#4. Violet smiled up at Nikolai. "I'm so very glad you came to Riversleigh."
Nikolai looked serious as he thought for a moment. "You know what, myshka? I'm very glad too. The old world and the old ways are dying. I think the new world and the new ways are filled with endless possibilities.

Belinda Murrell

#5. How does one measure the success of a museum?

J. Paul Getty

#6. As a youngster, I was considered exceptional, and in many ways that was to my detriment.

Michael Owen

#7. What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.

Friedrich Schiller

#8. I've never really collected anything other than old Atari cartridges. I only had, like, 12 Atari games as a kid, so at some point in my 20s I decided I was going to own all of them.

Ernest Cline

#9. If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.

Erica Jong

#10. And as I stand up and take that breath I can feel that being here is no static thing. We are not just existing at a time when an old, unworkable world is dying, but we are living as a new one struggles for birth.

Lois Hart

#11. Windows were the first thing we made ourselves. Other products, such as cement and plasterboard, came later. Some of the factories we actually built because of union blockades trying to stop us getting supplies.

Len Buckeridge

#12. Fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism
something it is like for the organism.

Thomas Nagel

#13. On history's clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendour never to be seen again.

W. Macqueen-Pope

#14. Just this once, instead of playing hide and seek let's play sardines

Nicole Andrews Moore

#15. Out past the weekly glimpsed windows, out past the street, lived the world, which had, Old Mrs. Karafilis knew, been dying for years.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#16. That was how she said goodbye to the world. To the people she loved. She was going to leave this earth the same way her mother had. With all the grace of the old world. The old, dying world.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#17. Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.

Stephen King

#18. Blood mixture and the result drop in the racial level is the sole cause of the dying out of old cultures; for men do not perish as a result of lost wars, but by the loss of that force of resistance which is continued only in pure blood. All who are not of good race in this world are chaff.

Adolf Hitler