Quotes About Destruction

The end of the world has come, and still nobody will listen.

Epics are weak because they are fools. They will destroy this world. Give men power, and they abuse it. That is all one needs to know.

It was strange, how easily and quickly protection could cause destruction. Sometimes, Vasher wondered if the two weren't really the same thing. Protect a flower, destroy the pests who wanted to feed on it. Protect a building, destroy the plants that could have grown in the soil. Protect a man. Live with the destruction he creates.

Either way, we had him to thank for a world without flowers, where plants grew brown rather than green, and where people could survive in an environment where ash fell from the sky on a regular basis.

Qué clase de cosas puedes romper? -De todo tipo. Puertas, dispositivos electrónicos, mesas... Una vez rompí un pollo. -¿Un pollo? -Sí, estaba de excursión. Me... frustré y cogí un pollo. Cuando lo solté, se le cayeron de golpe todas las plumas y, a partir de entonces, se negó a comer otra cosa que no fuera comida para gatos.

The nature of the world is that when we create something, we often destroy something else in the process

As the plow breaks the earth shall he break the lives of men, and all that was shall be consumed in the fire of his eyes,' " Egwene said. " 'The trumpets of war shall sound at his footsteps, the ravens feed at his voice, and he shall wear a crown of swords.

Life, Vin said. You said that the only reason to create something was so that you could destroy it.

There is a beauty in death -- the beauty of finality, the beauty of completion. For nothing is truly complete until the day it is at last destroyed.

In seven days, God created the world. And in seven seconds, I shattered mine.

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable. That's why it loves perfectionists—it's so easy to keep us quiet. If we cultivate enough awareness about shame to name it and speak to it, we've basically cut it off at the knees. Shame hates having words wrapped around it. If we speak shame, it begins to wither. Just the way exposure to light was deadly for the gremlins, language and story bring light to shame and destroy it.

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable. That's why it loves perfectionists- it's so easy to keep us quiet. If we cultivate enough awareness about shame to name it and speak to it, we've basically cut it off at the knees. Shame hates having words wrapped around it. If we speak shame, it begins to wither. Just the way the light was deadly for the gremlins, language and story bring light to shame and destroy it.

and ignoring her shocked gasp, he used his foot to stomp it into pieces. "Are you crazy?

IT TOOK THREE days to burn his private papers, so the legend has it.

Zen meditation is meant to bring an end to the delusory and destructive ego, not to serve it as a means for achieving its ends.

Hardship and danger destroys fewer people than indulgence.

No shortage in terrorists, Grant observed grimly. They came in all dimensions: groups of political fanatics with blind obedience and perverted social conscience; the trained assassin tracking down their victim in a peaceful Austrian village; a boy in a quiet Washington street killing on vicious impulse. All of them, however different they seemed, bent on destruction. All of them, however motivated, with total contempt for human life.

El odio puede ser fuente de energía sólo por un tiempo limitado. Nos infunde la ilusión de ser fuertes pero, ante todo, es un parásito que nos devora

Dos conceptos resumen lo que ha sido y, probablemente, también lo que va a ser: supervivencia y destrucción.

I was beginning to suspect that the fire had destroyed something inside me. People can have load-bearing beams that give way too.

El demonio es paciente en su empeño por devorar y destruir la obra de Dios.

The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the first time, the stage-scenery of the senses collapsed; the human mind felt itself stripped naked, vibrating in a void of shapeless energies, with resistless mass, colliding, crushing, wasting, and destroying what these same energies had created and labored from eternity to perfect.

the mission of men there seems to be,like so many busy demons,to drive the forest out of the country.

Even music may be intoxicating. Such apparently slight causes destroyed Greece and Rome, and will destroy England and America.