Quotes About Destruction

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

But she was no longer a ship. She was not even afloat, really.

And Time, a maniac scattering dust,And Life, a Fury slinging flame.

It builds cathedrals before the workmen have moved a stone, and it destroys them before the elements have worn down their arches. It is the architect of the buildings of the spirit, and it is also their solvent: - and the spiritual precedes the material.

Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Envy destroys good deeds

Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

I'm everything that makes everything. I'm everything that unmakes everything. I'm fire. I'm flood. I'm pestilence. I'm the ink, the paper, the grass, the tree, the leaves, the leaf, the greenness in the leaf. I'm the vein in the leaf. I'm the voice that tells no story.

I'm rubble too, he thinks. Just in a different form. The whole world and all its people. Rubble.

And after that, I watched our house collapse in on itself and I spent some time lying in the rubble. Then I vanished completely. I wasn't here at all. Then you phoned.

Having dedicated whole regions to the destruction you inspire, the logic will be to go on doing it doing it. Having proceeded by the logic of your per- sonal vaccuum you will perceive your continued lightlessness as an excuse to go on. having gone on as you have. And so one continues.

And all of that destruction belongs to you. The destruction can't be healed, we are murderers.

Se tornardes exterior o que está dentro de ti, o que trouxeres à luz te salvará. Se não trouxerdes à luz o que está dentro de ti, o que não trouxeres à luz te destruirá.

Não causa espanto que Marte seja o Deus da guerra e dos conflitos, assim como do progresso e da indústria. Ele destrói, reconstrói e volta a destruir. 'A guerra é o grande acelerador.

Drunk with beauty, I tore down Armfuls of blossoms. How desolate the marred sky!

The Guns of Navarone

Well, it will continue until the destruction of its cause". "And what is that, Sir?" "The way we identify with our body as the doer of action. And this lifelong habit is only destroyed by knowing oneself to be the bodiless Self. This is why it is said that knowledge is the fire that reduces karma to ashes".

They were blown off my feet when the South Tower collapsed

Folks, the trajectory we were on prior to the virus was taking us towards destruction. God has intervened. He's given us a chance for some personal evaluations, some individual reflection to turn our hearts and our faces to Him.

And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.

Betrayal was the ultimate weapon, for it left emotional destruction in its wake. And questions. Thousands of questions.

Anyone who has been privileged to witness the purée into which 170,000 bison (or 680,000 bisons' hooves) can turn eighteen motor cars has a pretty good idea of the concept of nothingness.

All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.

El enemigo es aquel que, desde el interior, destruye lo que merece la pena. Es el que te muestra la decrepitud contenida en cada realidad. Es aquel que saca a la luz tu bajeza y la de tus amigos. Es aquel que, en un día perfecto, encontrará una excelente razón para que te tortures. Es aquel que te hará sentir asco de ti mismo. Es aquel que, cuando entreveas el rostro celestial de una desconocida, te revelará la muerte contenida en tanta belleza.