Quotes About Destruction

fringe groups representing national minorities who could imagine that somehow the destruction of states provided opportunities.

The ashes of Warsaw were still warm when the Cold War began.

Thrawn shrugged. "There are two ways to destroy a person, Jorj. Kill him, or ruin his reputation.

Avarice and luxury, those pests which have ever been the ruin of every great state.

He was formed for the ruin of our sex.

You want to kill a place, name it. A name only draws the people there who will kill it again. They slice it up or tear it down; they rape the women, burn everyone on pyres, and then, thinking they own it, they name it again. Stupid. Enough to know 'there is a hill and good water, a cross in the road and a strong oak tree.' But do not say it out loud. A home should always stay secret or someone will come to steal it.

She killed her sons first. Hammering a long fence nail through each of their hearts. Then, taking an ax, she methodically beheaded each one of her brothers-in-law. Going out to the pens, she drove the livestock into the barn, bolting it shut, and while the goat kids and spring lambs panicked and brayed, she put all the buildings to flame.

Early hopes when the pandemic first hit that nature was 'healing' had turned on their head and it appeared that in fact the virus was on the side of greed and destruction after all, annihilating all that was small and true and firming up the grip megalomaniacs and madmen had on the planet, in an attempt to push us more quickly towards the abyss.

They have destroyed a man, who three months ago they doted on, because they are afraid of what they might learn about human nature. They have learned enough and they have turned the key on it. We are near the end of the century and are as primitive as we were at its beginning.

Really, the ocean itself - that's really the thing that we're up against, the most destructive environment on the planet.

This is part of what's driving me, is this feeling like there's so much yet to be discovered in the oceans, and we're destroying it before we even know what's in it.

Oil is drowning our oceans and drowning our boreal forests.

My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.

The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.

Yet each man kills the things he loves

It had brought melancholy across his passions. Its mere memory had marred many moments of joy. It had been like conscience to him. Yes, it had been conscience. He would destroy it.

he had been filled with terror lest other eyes should look upon it. It had brought melancholy across his passions. Its mere memory had marred many moments of joy. It had been like conscience to him. Yes, it had been conscience. He would destroy it.

All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

No one survives being over-estimated, nor is there any surer way of destroying an author's reputation than to glorify him without judgement and to praise him without tact.

who can carry The incineration of a Universe?

A double-edged sword One side destroys One releases I am not your Gordian knot Will you release or destroy me? Follow truth and you shall: Find me on water Purify me through fire Trapped by earth nevermore Air will whisper to you What spirit already knows: That even shattered anything is possible If you believe Then we shall both be free.

How can losing love make you want to destroy people?

La heradera del dia destruida. (The heiress of the destroyed day.)

Amo ciò che di tenace ancora sopravvive nei miei occhi, nelle mie camere abbandonate dove abita la luna, e ragni di mia proprietà, e distruzioni che mi sono care, adoro il mio essere perduto, la mia sostanza imperfetta.