#prophecies

Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#any #art #beyond #death #different

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#fellow men #fulfilling #habit #his #incurable

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong. ↗

— Murray Walker

#immediately #make #mistakes #out #prophecies

You have to say what comes into your head, and sometimes the wrong words come, in the wrong order or I'd make prophecies which immediately turned out to be wrong. ↗

— Murray Walker

#comes #head #i #immediately #into

Warmblood now a bloodborne death, Will rob your body of it's breath Mark your skin and seal your fate The Underland becomes a plate ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#prophecies #death

To die in a battle is often referred to as a heroic act, but I will never understand that. What glory is there in bleeding to death in agony on the battlefield? I have no intention of dying at the hands of my enemy. ↗

— Peter Koevari

#death

Oracular ambiguity or statical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#foretellers #prophecies #faith

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#important #man #more #often #prophecies

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#communism #largely #like #made #other

He who lives for nothing costs the lives of many, but he who lives for something greater than himself preserves those he loves. ↗

— Christopher Hopper

#christian-science-fiction #elves #grimwarden #jimmy #jimmy-gresham