Quotes About Destruction

And if the dried and blackened shell of him is found among the sands by travelers to come yet who can discover the engine of his ruin?

Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.

What if a whole goddamned building was to just up and sink? What about two or three buildings? What about a whole block? Harrogate was waving his bottle about. Goddamn, he said. What if the whole fuckin city was to cave in? That's the spirit, said Suttree.

Somewhere out there is a true and living prophet of destruction and I dont want to confront him. I know he's real. I have seen his work. I walked in front of those eyes once. I wont do it again. I wont push my chips forward and stand up and go out to meet him.

Somewhere out there is a true and living prophet of destruction and I dont want to confront him.

The facade of the building bore an array of saints in their niches and they had been shot up by American troops trying their rifles, the figures shorn of ears and noses and darkly mottled with leadmarks oxidized upon the stone.

Ci sono quattro cose che possono distruggere il mondo, disse. Le donne, il whisky, i soldi e i negri.

In the days to come the frail black rebuses of blood in those sands would crack and break and drift away so that in the circuit of few suns all trace of the destruction of these people would be erased.

Eine Katastrophe kann durch noch so viel Gutes nicht ausgelöscht werden. Sondern nur durch eine noch schlimmere Katastrophe.

while men may meet with death in strange and obscure places which they might well have avoided it was more correct to say that no matter how hidden or crooked the path to their destruction yet they would seek it out.

Sheddan once said that evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure.

How these things end. In confusion and curses and blood.

The world has created no living thing that it does not intend to destroy. I suppose that's true. What then? Is that all that the world has in mind? If the world has a mind then it's all worse than we thought.

Life without meaning, hope, and love breeds a coldhearted, mean-spirited outlook that destroys the individual and others.

After all, that was what you wanted from books: great emotions you'd never felt yourself, pain you could leave behind by closing the book if it got too bad. Death and destruction felt deliciously real conjured up with the right words, and you could leave them behind between the pages as you pleased, at no cost or risk to yourself.

Ketakutan membunuh segalanya. Akal, hati dan juga fantasi

There is a sort of busy worm, That will the fairest book deform. Their tasteless tooth will tear and taint The poet, patriot, sage or saint, Nor sparing wit nor learning. Now, if you'd know the reason why, The best of reasons I'll supply: 'Tis bread to the poor vermin. J. Doraston, quoted by W. Blades

was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed… . He wanted … to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house. While the books went up in sparkling whirls, and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning. Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Words are immortal – until someone comes along and burns them.

She resembled Anna Karenina, the kind of woman that if you want to kill, you have to hit with a train.

It seems my calling is to destroy rather than create. To finish removing my body. To erase my presence from this world.

MAKE RED YOUR CLAWS WITH HUMAN BLOOD…OBLITERATE THE HUMAN FILTH…" "Ooh, that's a nice song," said the Hogfly, ever polite.

She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.

Se volete vincere la guerra, voi non potete distruggere la patria dell'operaio. Non potete distruggere le macchine, le officine, le industrie. Il problema non è soltanto polacco, è europeo. Anche in tutti gli altri paesi d'Europa, da voi occupati, potete distruggere la patria dei nobili, la patria dei borghesi, ma non la patria degli operai.