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Quotes About Destruction

If you bring forth what is within you what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you what you do not bring forth will destroy you.
~ Jesus Christ
Transformation, on the other hand, is creating beauty from horror or destruction (or, for beginners, an actually pleasant evening with the usual family problems).
~ Darrell Calkins, Re:
Man has been evolved and created the gods. Evolved more and decided to destroy all of them.
~ Emil A. Zafirov
Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction can be profitable to none but such as live by it.
~ Nicholas Hawksmoor
Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect they are permanent.
~ Maimonides
Nature is telling us that if you don't respect the environment then you are living with artificial needs and a consumerism that is destroying the very conditions we need to survive.
~ Tariq Ramadan
We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.
~ Bob Menendez
Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.
~ Yasser Arafat
Asmodai, the demon of wrath and destruction. Master of all malevolent deities and governor of hellish legions, a monster with the three heads of a bull, a ram, and a man, the tail of a serpent, and the webbed feet of a goose. The monster sat astride an infernal dragon and held a lance bearing the war standard of hell. The three heads simultaneously breathed fire from their mouths while they surveyed the room. A television cameraman engulfed in flames ran screaming toward the window.
~ Yasutaka Tsutsui
Symbols A storm-beaten old watch-tower, A blind hermit rings the hour. All-destroying sword-blade still Carried by the wandering fool. Gold-sewn silk on the sword-blade, Beauty and fool together laid.
~ Yeats
La misión de encontrar y destruir a nuestro propio ego nos acerca a la grandeza.
~ Yehuda Berg
You don't look normal, dear. You look sick. Because sick and not normal are the same thing. You're destroying yourself, and no one is going to tell you that - no one.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Besides, I can't, I no longer have the strength to destroy this painful piece of myself, which might turn out to be the piece I value most.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
During the first firing a dozen or so numbers from the dock neglected to get out of the way - nothing remained of them except some crumbs and soot.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
It's a filthy city. Everything here is trash. Eventually someone's gotta burn it.
~ Yoshihiro Tatsumi
It is impossible to unite Christ and Baal -- their spirits cannot unite, their objects and purposes are entirely different; the one leads to eternal life and exaltation, the other to death and final destruction.
~ young brigham ii
The waste of life in the ruinous war now raging is truly lamentable. Joseph the prophet said that the report of it would sicken the heart, and what is all this for? It is a visitation from heaven because they have killed the prophet of God, JOSEPH SMITH, Jr. Has not the nation consented to his death, and to the utter destruction of the Latter Day Saints, if it could be accomplished? But they found that they could not accomplish that.
~ young brigham iii
If he provokes a war, his empire shakes, And all her lofty glories nod to ruin.
~ young edward iii
Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.
~ young wm paul iii
Other people must be destroyed. In order that I might truly face the sun, the world itself must be destroyed....
~ Yukio Mishima
Even though the world might change into the kind I hoped for, it lost its rich charm at the very instant of change. The thing that lay at the far end of my dreams was extreme danger and destruction; never once had I envisaged happiness. The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.
~ Yukio Mishima
History is a record of destruction. One must always make room for the next ephemeral crystal. For history, to build and to destroy are one and the same thing.
~ Yukio Mishima
A los otros es preciso destruirlos. A todos. Para que yo pueda levantar mi rostro al sol es necesario que sea devastado el mundo entero...
~ Yukio Mishima