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Quotes About Destruction

The bride and groom stand beneath the Chuppa (bridal canopy), symbolizing their new home, and seven blessings are recited, a cup of wine again being shared. The couple are blessed, and the groom smashes a glass, recalling the destruction of Jerusalem even on his most joyful day.
~ Unknown
So many evils by Satan's prince will be committed that almost the entire world will find itself undone and desolated. Before these events, many rare birds will cry in the air, 'Now! Now!" and sometime later will vanish
~ Nostradamus
I'm sorry, is what she means to say. Sorry, sweetheart, about the elephants. About the sea turtles with their heads lopped off, and the friendly, machine-gunned whales. About the owls, my love, and the antelope. About the drowning bears...
~ Unknown
Yakmal? bu mektuplar?, yakmal?! Ölü diller uzman?n? ve bu konuda görü?tü?üm herkesi öldürmeli! Hayalimde daha önce çok insan öldürmü? oldu?um için bu son ölümler beni fazla sarsmad?. Nedense, bu arada gizli mezhebin üyelerim de öldürmeyi dü?ünmüyordum. Bu dü?üncelerimi ö?renmelerinden bile korkuyordum.
~ Unknown
Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature! Being the matrix of life, she is by that very fact the matrix of death - since it is from death that life is perpetually reborn, and since to annihilate death would be to kill life at its only fertile source.
~ Octave Mirbeau
Self is. Self is body and bodily perception. Self is thought, memory, belief. Self creates. Self destroys. Self learns, discovers, becomes. Self shapes. Self adapts. Self invents its own reasons for being. To shape God, shape Self.
~ Octavia E. Butler
When we have no difficult, long-term purpose to strive toward, we fight each other. We destroy ourselves. We have these chaotic, apocalyptic periods of murderous craziness.
~ Octavia E. Butler
There seem to be solid biological reasons why we are the way we are. If there weren't, the cycles wouldn't keep replaying. The human species is a kind of animal, of course. But we can do something no other animal species has ever had the option to do. We can choose: We can go on building and destroying until we either destroy ourselves or destroy the ability of our world to sustain us. Or we can make something more of ourselves.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Once people get the idea that it's all right to take what you want and destroy the rest, who knows when they'll stop.
~ Octavia E. Butler
When vision fails Direction is lost. When direction is lost Purpose may be forgotten. When purpose is forgotten Emotion rules alone. When emotion rules alone, Destruction…destruction.
~ Octavia E. Butler
When vision fails Direction is lost. When direction is lost Purpose may be forgotten. When purpose is forgotten Emotion rules alone. When emotion rules alone, Destruction…destruction. F
~ Octavia E. Butler
breaking people is much easier than putting them together again.
~ Octavia E. Butler
one is…a major key to us, to human beings, I mean. When we have no difficult, long-term purpose to strive toward, we fight each other. We destroy ourselves. We have these chaotic, apocalyptic periods of murderous craziness.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Humanity in its attempt to destroy itself had made the world unlivable.
~ Octavia E. Butler
There are over 700 known dead so far. One hurricane. And how many people has it hurt? How many are going to starve later because of destroyed crops? That's nature. Is it God? Most of the dead are the street poor who have nowhere to go and who don't hear the warnings until it's too late for their feet to take them to safety. Where's safety for them anyway? Is it a sin against God to be poor?
~ Octavia E. Butler
Morning, noon and night, every civilized people was assured that enemies, whose flavor was of course subhuman and foul, were plotting its destruction. Armament scares, spy stories, accounts of the barbarous and sadistic behavior of neighboring peoples, created in every country such uncritical suspicion and hate that war became inevitable.
~ Olaf Stapledon
No influence of ours can save your species from destruction. Nothing could save it but a profound change in your own nature; and that cannot be. Wandering among you, we move always with fore-knowledge of the doom which your own imperfection imposes on you. Even if we could, we would not change it; for it is a theme required in the strange music of the spheres.
~ Olaf Stapledon
The truth is terrible: describing is destroying.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
To tell the truth, I like the concept of evil people who eliminated each other, in a chain.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
To tell the truth, I liked the concept of evil people who eliminate each other, in a chain.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
When the sun has been destroyed for a man, what comfort is there in a world of moonlight?
~ Unknown
It is my assertion, however, that the project of remaking humanity and defining identity has been at the core of this century, and that much of this project was characterized by a tremendous destructive urge followed by a long and as yet uncompleted process of coming to terms with the disasters it has produced and is still producing in many parts of the world.
~ Unknown
It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.
~ Orson Scott Card
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.
~ Orson Scott Card