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Quotes About Annihilation

Pero era un sueño. Estábamos envueltos en algodón, en hilos de seda, en telas de araña, en musgo, en niebla, en el mar, en el sabor de una distancia que ha de aniquilarse-
~ Anais Nin
Spirit and flesh, feeling and reason can never again be made one. It's too late. For the moment we are crippled by the appalling disease of spiritual deficiency; and the disease is fatal. Mankind has done everything possible to annihilate itself, starting with its own moral annihilation—physical death is merely the result.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
Rescue is the true aim of Zionism—not the "liberation" of the Promised Land but the rescue of the Jews, repeatedly threatened with annihilation.
~ Saul Bellow
Human nature," I continued, "has its limits. It is able to endure a certain degree of joy, sorrow, and pain, but becomes annihilated as soon as this measure is exceeded. The question, therefore, is, not whether a man is strong or weak, but whether he is able to endure the measure of his sufferings. The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
couldn't find it in my heart to believe her death would result in a complete annihilation; I think I accepted her body's death from the beginning, but there was another part of me that believed her mind, or her spirit, or something else that could not be defined, would never really
~ John Burnside
Submission to suffering is a form of annihilation, but transformation of suffering rekindles a faith that gives life.
~ Paulo Freire
my mother, before she became my mother, was followed by the man with whom she would make love, who would cover her with his name, who would annihilate her with his alphabet.
~ Elena Ferrante
We really do not need another nuclear explosion to annihilate life on this planet. Just a successful economy can do it quite effectively!
~ Sadhguru
If he is a genuine seeker, anything that happens to him – even the most disastrous thing – is also a plus, because it only annihilates him a little more.
~ Sadhguru
since nothing comes out of nothing, and nothing can be annihilated.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Toby, watch Jaden. I heard he had a bad night and is in the mood for annihilation. End of the world's not on me today, bud. Hey, Takeshi, get your fat butt off me. You're squishing the fox. There is no honor in sacrificing the fox, you ugly hedgehog. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
ahhh the beauty of annihilation. There's nothing like it.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
And I can't let you out of here until I know what your plans are. (Kat) To stop the annihilation of mankind and the earth. It's a simple plan, really, but an important one. Can I go now? (Sin)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Long suffering had nearly annihilated all my ordinary powers of mind. I was an imbecile—an idiot.
~ Arthur Machen
At its core, hatred is the desire to annihilate that which is causing us pain, in the misguided belief that if we could only incinerate what seems to be causing the pain, we would finally be at peace. All feuds, all wars, all acts of revenge are built on this principle, including our inner war with food and weight.
~ Geneen Roth
For continual suffering had annihilated religious faith within me: to the utterly miserable –the unloving and the unloved –there is no religion possible, no worship but a worship of devils.
~ George Eliot
I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. 'Please don't take away our precious Soviet Union! - We demand the annihilation of all life on Earth!'
~ Craig Bruce
The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
~ Simone Weil
The seductive invitation of metamorphosis - of turning into something other — has continued to suffuse fantasies of identity; on the one hand holding out a way of escape from humanity, on the other annihilating the self.
~ Marina Warner
So long as she is obedient to a mother—actual or internal—who unconsciously wishes to annihilate her, she is in a state of possession by the witch; she will have to differentiate herself out from that witch in order to live her own life.
~ Marion Woodman
I dread that it may be only a longing for annihilation. No person who has seen his own face plain can want to live longer.
~ Shirley Jackson
Quien no haya concebido jamás su propia anulación, quien no haya presentido el recurso a la cuerda, a la bala, al veneno o al mar, es un recluso envilecido o un gusano reptante sobre la carroña cósmica.
~ Simon Critchley
Je suis peut-être mesquine mais je voudrais qu'ils meurent tous pour que s'anéantisse la lamentable image qu'ils se font à présent de moi.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.
~ Helen Keller