Quotes About Collapse

Osiris, god of order, falls apart. This happens all the time, in people's individual lives, and equally in the history of families, cities, and states. Things fall apart when love affairs collapse, careers deteriorate, or cherished dreams die; when despair, anxiety, uncertainty, and hopelessness manifest themselves in the place of habitable order; and when nihilism and the abyss make their dread appearance, destroying the desirable and stable values of current life.

Chaos is the experience of reeling unbound and unsupported through space when your guiding routines and traditions collapse.

Her house was built on a foundation of sand. The ice she was skating on was simply too thin. She fell through, into the water below, and is drowning.

As coisas desmoronam por vontade própria, mas os pecados dos homens aceleram sua degeneração.

In no time, you find yourself left without civilization.

Since human fatherhood, as a reflection of the Fatherhood of God, was designed to be the pillar of the family, the disappearance of esteem for fatherhood has led to the collapse of that pillar and to the disintegration of the family.

It had become a self-imposed prison for humanity," he wrote. "A pleasant place for the world to hide from its problems while human civilization slowly collapses, primarily due to neglect.

Morrow […] felt that OASIS had evolved into something horrible. "It had become a self-imposed prison for humanity. A pleasant place for the world to hide from its problems while human civilization slowly collapses, primarily due to neglect.

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A pleasant place for the world to hide from its problems while human civilization slowly collapses, primarily due to neglect.

The downfall of order brings good to none.

There are times when I feel that the only real aptitude of our species is that we can ruin anything.

That contagion idea is so relevant and shows how quickly civilization could self-destruct.

Osama bin Laden fervently hoped that attacking the United States would create pressure on American leaders to reduce their support for Middle Eastern regimes. Bin Laden believed that without that American support, the Arab regimes would collapse and would be replaced by Taliban-style rulers.

People tend to overlook the fact that North Korea's economy collapsed at about the same time as South Koreans lost faith in their own state. The late 1980s and early 1990s were a time when South Koreans were questioning the very legitimacy of their republic.

In whose interest is it to hype up the collapse of the Internet from a DDoS attack? Why, the people who provide cyber security services, of course.

People aren't as impressed by homes anymore after they saw how they collapsed in price with the financial crisis.

And in 2006, just before the financial system began to collapse, an analyst from Standard & Poor's, a credit-rating agency that consistently and knowingly gave the highest ratings to near-worthless mortgage-backed securities, said in an internal e-mail, "Let's hope we are all wealthy and retired by the time this house of cards falters.

When the houses of the great collapse Many little people are slain. Those who have no share in the fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes. The plunging wain Drags the sweating beasts with it into the abyss.

You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.

What is certain is that at some point in the future the west flank of the Cumbre Vieja on La Palma will collapse, and the resulting tsunamis will ravage the entire Atlantic rim.

When the Cumbre Vieja collapses into the sea, the coastal cities of the eastern USA could be battered by tsunamis up to 50 metres high.

Cyprus was a breath away from economic collapse. It was a big battle in which we came out wounded, but upright and determined to make a fresh start.

The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.