Quotes About Destruction

Those who play with fire should expect to be consumed by it.

I want to be a destroyer that can save people..

We raised God ourselves so we must kill each other. (heart)

For you, he is the seed of destruction.

Exodia Obliterate!

This, I feel, is the advantage to creating art at this point in time: When we realize that we are temporary, we are facing our self-destruction, we are realizing our fate and we must confront it. Art is the only sensible primal response to an outlook of possible destruction (obliteration).

It was largely my interest in art that had destroyed any life in the world around me. I'd learned perspective, and about balance, and composition. It was as if I'd learned to redesign everything, to reshape it so I saw what OUGHT to be there, which of course is much inferior to what IS there. The dullness was not an inevitable consequence of age, but of education.

I thought you'd be there waiting for me … What greeted me instead was the lingering stench of ashes and the empty sockets of our ruined home. Samuel Puterman on his return to Warsaw, 1945

In some respects the Hamburg firestorm can be considered a microcosm of what happened to Europe in the war. As with the rest of Europe, the bombing had transformed the city into a landscape of ruins – and yet there were still parts of it that lay serenely, miraculously, untouched.

Human beings suck the life out of everything that's beautiful.

Charley looked like someone from a Greek play, Electra, or Cassandra. She looked like someone had just set her favorite city on fire.

blew out 5 million acres of fields, and in the space of a day carried off twice as much dirt as had been excavated by the United States in the decade it took to dig the Panama Canal.

Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

Beauty, when it is not a promise of happiness, must be destroyed.

what really led to the conquest of the Americas was not military might or a superior culture. The largest single factor in the destruction of the native populations in the Americas was the introduction of epidemic diseases to which the natives had no natural immunity.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

O pátio [da prisão] era cercado de entradas e saídas. Não dava a impressão de hermetismo, como se deveria esperar. É inevitável que se tenha uma ideia romântica de uma prisão, embora, como era o meu caso, não soubesse o que era o romantismo. Nem uma prisão, para ser sincera. Esta passava uma sensação de realismo exacerbada e destruidora; as ideias prévias, embora não as tivesse, ruíam.

Pleasure will have much to teach him.He will not be afraid of the destructive act;one half of the house must be pulled down.This way he will grow virtuously into knowledge.

a campaign of mendacity unprecedented since Napoleon proclaimed the destruction of Nelson's fleet at Trafalgar.

The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive.

Let man but accumulate his materials of destruction and the devil within him will soon be unable to resist putting them to their fated use.

We all feel that the opposite of our own highest principle must be purely destructive, deadly, and evil. We refuse to endow it with any positive life-force; hence we avoid and fear it.

But it is the same with every single human being and his reasonably ordered world. His reason has done violence to natural forces which seek their revenge and only await the moment when the partition falls to overwhelm the conscious life with destruction.