“When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.” WorldFallRomeFalling DownFall Of RomeGreece And RomeColiseumColosseum Author:Lord Byron
“Rome was so mighty that it could not fall. It had to vanish in a cloud, like so many of the mythical heros of antiquity, and to receive its apotheosis among the stars before men became fully aware that it had vanished from the earth!” MenEarthFallStarsHeroCloudsRomeAntiquityApotheosis Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of whom knew what they were fighting about, and which schisms contributed to the decline and fall of this greatest of states. Rome had thrived for one thousand years with pagan gods at the helm and expired after only one hundred and fifty years under the Christian banner.” YearsStatesChristianFallFightingAtheismThousandHundredPositive AtheismFiftyEmpiresDividedRomeDeclineThousand YearsPaganEighteenSectsRoman EmpireBannerTrinityPlatonicHelmExpiredSchismTestimonialPagan GodsDoxology Author:Ruth Hurmence Green
“The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; .in the name of Titian, that of Venice; in the name of Leonardo, that of Milan; in the name of Raphael, that of Rome. And there is profound justice in this, for in proportion to the nobleness of the power is the guilt of its use for purposes vain or vile; and hitherto the greater the art, the more surely has it been used, and used solely, for the decoration of pride or the provoking of sensuality.” ArtUseUsedPurposeFallNamesJusticeGreaterPrideGuiltProfoundPassingPassingsPainterSensualityVainProportionRomeBellsProvokingSpainVeniceDecorationLeonardoRaphaelMilan Author:John Ruskin
“Night doesn't fall in Rome; it rises from the city's heart, from the gloomy little alleys and courtyards where the sun never gets much more than a brief look-in, and then, like the mist from the Tiber, it creeps over the rooftops and spreads up into the hills.” LooksHeartLittlesNightFallCitiesSunSpreadHillsRomeMistCreepsGloomyAlleysRooftops Author:Caroline Llewellyn
“The greater part of our best years has been passed for our generation in these two great worldconvulsions. All will be changed after this war, which spends in one month more than nations earned before in yearsthere is no more security in our time than in those of the Reformation or the fall of Rome.” YearsHas BeensTwoWarHumanityFallNationsGreaterGenerationsSecurityChangedMonthsDestructionOur TimeRomeReformationOur GenerationBest YearFall Of Rome Author:Stefan Zweig