Quotes About Destruction

One researcher, J.P. Gump found that the most profound shame results from the destruction of your subjectivity when "what you need, what you desire, and what you feel are of complete and utter insignificance.

It was an ugly flower, pink with yellow-tipped stamens sticking out of the center. It deserved to die. Zoe pulled the hammer back in a slow motion and snapped it forward. There was a delicious sound of cracking plaster as the flower dissolved into rubble. White dust rose all around here. "I hate that wallpaper," she said

Briskly aestheticizing politics, this predecessor of today's live-streaming militants outlined a likely endgame for a world in which, as Walter Benjamin wrote, the self-alienation of humankind 'has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order'.

Secrets are corrosive. Secrets destroy anything you try to layer over them. It's like using concealer to cover a black eye. You can hide it, but that's not the same as healing.

Love has triumphed over marriage but now it is destroying it from inside

As often is the case after a powerful, destructive storm, it was an achingly beautiful day. Even so late in the summer, I could still hear the occasional skylark singing, and the fields were speckled with red poppies.

People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.

I borrowed a hammer and the garage and disposed of both phones. I was pretty sure that I could have just pulled the batteries, but pretty sure wasn't good enough, so I used a hammer.

Thank you for tearing Tim into small Tim bits.

Fire is a powerful thing. It cleanses as it destroys- and it brings light to darkness.

This place looks like the last scene in Hamlet.

I put my cell phone in my back pocket (a habit that has destroyed two phones so far) and tried to blank my face. It wouldn't help with the werewolves, who would be able to smell my distress, but at least I wouldn't have complete strangers stop and ask me what was wrong.

He did not except the fire to destroy everything they hadn't found.

Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn't mean time heals. Time cures a secret in its brine, keeping it and finally, paradoxically, destroying it. Nothing is left in that salt solution but the pain or rage, the biting shame that lodged it there. Even they are diluted or denied.

I'd like to get rid of all of them. Filthy hovels, filthy people. I would tear down the houses and let sheep roam among the rocks.

Crack seemed to have a different hold on folks than liquor did. Drunks would sober up and come to their senses in the morning. But once a crackhead got hooked all they did was chase that high. Even if it meant selling everything they owned for a hit: wedding rings, household appliances, their kids' clothes. Anything that had been important didn't matter anymore.

Las máquinas hacían la vida más fácil, o eso es lo que creíamos, pero invadían y despedazaban la tierra y el cielo de maneras que apenas comprendíamos. Estas dos primeras innovaciones, el cultivo y la creación de maquinas que trabajaran para nosotros, tendrían que habernos enseñado a cuidar del mundo, pero no lo hicieron. Lo único que aprendimos fue a inventar formas de destruirlo mejor.

said. "That breech loader has killed everthing but a train engine, and now it's done that too.

Sure seems that way," Zech said. "That breech loader has killed everthing but a train engine, and now it's done that too.

Virtue will slumber. The wicked will be continually watching. Consequently, you will be undone.

If you ever see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.

Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

Now that, said the monster, is how destruction is properly done.