Quotes About Destruction

Like all apocalyptic writers, the author despises people in general and fantasizes about the destruction of everyone different from him and his chosen group.

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

Cualquier imbécil puede derribar un granero, pero para construirlo se necesita un carpintero

Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.

The Sick Rose O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.

Love is always creative, fear always destructive.

They will love me for that which destroys me.

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom - one brief hour of madness and joy.

As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

Calms appear, when Storms are past; Love will have his Hour at last: Nature is my kindly Care; Mars destroys, and I repair; Take me, take me, while you may, Venus comes not ev'ry Day.

I hate the moon. I hate tides and earthquakes and volcanoes. I hate a world where things that have absolutely nothing to do with me can destroy my life and the lives of people I love.

For me, love carries the seeds of its own destruction.

I love smashing stuff.

Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.

Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

Don't ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.

There is very little difference between the capacity for mayhem and destruction, integrated, and strength of character. This is one of the most difficult lessons of life.

Forest fires burn out deadwood and return trapped elements to the soil. Sometimes, however, fires are suppressed, artificially. That does not stop the deadwood from accumulating. Sooner or later, a fire will start. When it does, it will burn so hot that everything will be destroyed—even the soil in which the forest grows.

If Mother Nature wasn't so hell-bent on our destruction, it would be easier for us to exist in simple harmony with her dictates.