11 Movie Quotes about Downfall (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jul 11, 2025

Memorable quotes about downfall, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 The world of Men will fall. And all will come to darkness and my city to ruin.

Sean Bean as Boromir in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2 The rampant exchange of bodily fluids was one of the major reasons for the downfall of society. After AIDS, there was NRS, after NRS there was UBT.

Sandra Bullock as Lenina Huxley in Demolition Man

3 A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within.

Alec Guinness as Marcus Aurelius in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

4 Today man has too much power. The Roman Empire collapsed with the assassination of Cesar. And why? Because of too much power.

Charlie Chaplin as King Shahdov in A King in New York (1957)

5 How does an empire die? Does it collapse in one terrible moment? No. No! But there comes a time when its people no longer believe in it. Then, then does an empire begin to die.

Alec Guinness as Marcus Aurelius in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

6 May the gods curse him. -Since when do you believe in the gods? Ever since your power began to slip through your fingers like so many grains of sand?

Steve Reeves as Romulus in Duel of the Titans (1961)

7 And once a great king ruled, but then one mistake brought him to his knees, and then he was gone.

Quote from Strife for Mastery (1978)

8 Hatred of men in a lovely young woman... it could be your downfall.

Brigitte Nielsen as Red Sonja in Red Sonja

9 I tell ya, these are hard times. The whole area's gone to ruin. It's run by gangsters. Even I have to keep my head down.

Quote from Mysterious Footworks of Kung Fu

10 Our destruction could have been avoided but for the vanity of some who consider us indestructible.

Marlon Brando as Jor El in Superman (1978)

11 Movie Quotes about Downfall (+ Sound Clips)

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