Quotes About Destruction

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

There's a sick joke that the reason we have not been contacted by an alien civilization is that civilizations tend to destroy themselves when they reach our stage. But I have sufficient faith in the good sense of public to believe that we might prove this wrong.

Maybe it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive.

Creo que los virus informáticos deberían ser considerados como vida. Quizás dice algo sobre la naturaleza humana que la única forma de vida que hemos sido capaces de crear hasta ahora sea puramente destructiva.

Some men are born to destroy, and nothing satisfies them but that. Whatever you've got, they want to tear it apart, from architecture and bank vaults to order and society itself, anything, just to watch it twist, shred, and die. Then

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

And then the world exploded.

Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family.

I am eternal. I am the Eater of Worlds.

It was over. We had once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

Sorrow for a wrong was better than nothing...but no amount of after-the-fact sorrow could ever atone for joy taken in destruction...

And fire was evil stuff that delighted in escaping the hands which created it.

There were other people here with at least some shreds of decency left, but working in a place like this destroyed your moral compass.

There's a Reason Cell Rhymes with Hell

Can a mordern city burn,' he asked Tom. 'One made mostly of concrete and metal and glass? Could it burn the way Chicago did after Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over the lantern?

To a materialist life is nothing but a complex self-sustaining pattern, easily disrupted and gone when destroyed.

What do you call the Hrothgar-wrecker when Hrothgar has been wrecked?

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.

The Second Temple was destroyed because of causeless hatred. Perhaps the Third will be rebuilt because of causeless love.

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.

Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.