Quotes About Collapse

As she stared at the magazine cover - an image of a black hole - she realized that's what she was. A black hole. A dying star, collapsing in on itself

The soul dies like a star – by collapsing in on itself.

Destruction always comes from within. It

Ontare ruina!

They who were so important, who wanted to create the world, are dumbfounded; everything crumbles.

Pouring breakfast cereal into a bowl, he saw his life crashing down in smoking ruins.

I just could not understand why our surroundings had changed so greatly in one instant…. I thought it might have been something which had nothing to do with the war, the collapse of the earth which it was said would take place at the end of the world.

The RCP's belief that capitalism was on the point of collapse started to look somewhat unconvincing. And

In those days the world had its evil masters, Nero, Tiberius, and Domitian. But even amidst the collapse of civilization, the world was crawling out of darkness. We are sliding back into it, and that is the difference. Our autocrats are not vicious tyrants. They are the architects of worldpower; and they manipulate all the resources of modern psychology to control the soul of man and make him an instrument of their purpose.

We are witnessing the total collapse of a bad idea. Obamaism, a quasi-socialist commitment to a more powerful government at home and an abdication of American leadership around the world, is being exposed as a historic calamity. It is fueling domestic fear and global disorder and may well lead to a world war.

Chances are good that if you walked away from your house after the real estate market collapsed, the Cavs now own it.

Aristotle tells us that the plot should be so tight that if you took away any one incident, the whole would literally collapse:

what if it was precisely the absence of intent and, instead, the swings of irrationality and mania that managed, even as his government collapsed, to hold so many people in thrall?

vamos, que el sistema del espectáculo, obligado a producir un consenso repugnante, se había venido abajo hacía mucho tiempo bajo el peso de su propia insignificancia.

Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.

Almost invariably, any native with enough understanding of the system to bring it down has too much invested in it to want to see it fall,

Now here's the good part. It was the part where Monica told me was the reason her life had seemed to collapse. It was to give her what she needed so she'd didn't feel incomplete and unfulfilled anymore.

America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.

If the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the State, if it were convinced that the State is nothing more nor less than a bandit gang writ large, then the State would soon collapse to take on no more status or breadth of existence than another Mafia gang.

Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.

And we live in a world of predators and prey," Raphael repeated. "Remove the top predator from the chain and the entire chain collapses.

How you mean, 'doughnut hole'?" Ti-Jeanne had asked. "That's what they call it when an inner city collapses and people run to the suburbs," he'd answered.

Our economic system and our planetary system are now at war. Or, more accurately, our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction in humanity's use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it's not the laws of nature.

Welfare had transformed from safety net to a necessity to prevent economic collapse.