Quotes About Collapse

[Magic] can guide people to the very edge of reason - and then push them off. Thoughts collapse for a moment and the mind is free to just experience. Magic is a window to eternity.

Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.

How are the mighty fallen!

Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse

Being a journalist got me to meet with children who had witnessed all their beliefs, all their faith in the world collapse.

Faith is one of the forces by which men live the total absence of it means collapse.

society had collapsed.

probably the most dramatic period of social and economic collapse in British history'.

But in Britain, as we've seen, civic life had collapsed completely in the early fifth century

Knowing that we created the Interdependency for our benefit, and pretended it was something that benefitted everyone. It makes this collapse feel like it's the universe commenting on our choice.

We should be focused on saving the Interdependency from collapse. Instead we're playing palace intrigues. It's pointless. It's wasteful. And it's going to end in our ruin.

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.

I wish we would all just fall apart so I wouldn't have to listen to the downfall happen, so slowly, so painfully.

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

The problem with people is that for us they are no more than prints in our mental museum, which fade on exposure. And it is precisely because of this that they form the basis of projects illuminated by our thoughts, but thoughts tire and memories collapse: the day would come when I would happily give Albertine's room to the first girl who wanted it, as I had given Albertine the agate marble or other gifts of Gilberte's.

Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.

Those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those who do regret it have no brain.

Our very human to simplify and seek one answer may explain our ongoing difficulty in recognizing impending synergy and acting before systems collapse. We are prone to accept death by a thousand little cuts, in which one degraded aspect of our environment or health becomes familiar and accepted as normal--and then another.

Still, it is argued that millions of people benefit from such programs. Of course, trillions of dollars in government expenditures over many years most assuredly benefit the recipients of subsidies or other related payments. But this does not change the arithmetic. The eventual collapse of a colossal government venture will indiscriminately engulf an entire society and economy, including its millions of beneficiaries and benefactors, resulting in widespread disorder and misery.

The military part of our information network - which we were accustomed to rely on for exact information - was the first part of the network to fall apart

He'd known the headland was undercut from years of waves and weather, but he hadn't expected to trigger its complete collapse. Shoving the wall over had been merely an attempt to complicate the situation. He'd never imagined . . . this.

Extravagance of desire is the fundamental cause which has led the world into its present predicament. Fast rather than slow, more rather than less—this flashy "development" is linked directly to society's impending collapse.

An image of a black hole - she realised that's what she was. A black hole. A dying star, collapsing in on itself.