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Quotes About Disintegration

The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges on western outposts.
~ Rick Atkinson
If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than th
~ Ernest Rutherford
My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
~ W. H. Auden
he had been lost somewhere in the wild borderlands of nineteen, half in love with his friends with a love passing the love of women, desperate for some mystical rite that would reverse time and put their disintegrating private world back together.
~ Tana French
Music is split up now into little pockets.
~ Chris Martin
rigid structures of a hierarchical order can disintegrate with astounding rapidity.
~ Niall Ferguson
When those who found this skeleton attempted to disengage it from that which it held in its grasp, it crumbled to dust.
~ Victor Hugo
I an individual—an individual soul! Nay, I am a population—a population unthinkable for multitude, even by groups of a thousand millions! Generations of generations I am, aeons of aeons! Countless times the concourse now making me has been scattered, and mixed with other scattering. Of what concern, then, the next disintegration? Perhaps, after trillions of ages of burning in different dynasties of suns, the very best of me may come together again.
~ Lafcadio Hearn
I feel liquefied, like a cucumber forgotten in the crisper drawer, and I want to hold myself at arm's length and carry me to the trash. Who is this sack of slush masquerading as me? It's intolerable.
~ Laini Taylor
Il cuore si stanca anche lui, vedi; e se ne va a pezzo a pezzo, come le robe vecchie si disfanno nel bucato.
~ Giovanni Verga
Carson recordó la vieja historia del siglo XX del cosmonauta que se quedó desamparado en el espacio cuando la Unión Soviética se disolvió: se encontraba dando vueltas a la Tierra cuando, de repente, el país que lo había llevado hasta allá arriba dejó de existir.
~ Jack McDevitt
My body is falling apart and my mind fell apart a long time ago.
~ James Frey
Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the underlying framework of industrialism is collapsing and causing disintegration.
~ Paul Hawken
We understand that conglomerates have no future.
~ Joe Kaeser
Don't be a fool, you've let yourself fall apart, the pieces have got lost, and now there's nothing left to give, you can't hide it forever, sooner or later she'll figure out the truth: you're a shell of a man, all she has to do is knock against you to find out you're empty.
~ Nicole Krauss
Organism is opposed to chaos, to disintegration, to death, as message is to noise. To describe an organism, we do not try to specify each molecule in it, and catalogue it bit by bit, but rather to answer certain questions about it which reveal its pattern: a pattern which is more significant and less probable as the organism becomes, so to speak, more fully an organism.
~ Norbert Wiener
The United Kingdom is nearing its end. It begun to disintegrate with the departure of Ireland in 1922. I think the process will accelerate. We maybe setting on an avalanche, the surface is relatively calm but underneath pillars of Britishness have been seeping away.
~ Norman Davies
Nothing is static. Everything is evolving. Everything is falling apart.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Everything is still falling apart.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
No mat­ter how much I try and hide this, bit by bit, I start to fall apart.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Nothing is static. Everything is falling apart.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Flecked and blotched with the stains of decomposition, the linen would trace a rambling journey in which everything you love falls apart.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
El desastre es una parte natural de mi evolución hacia la tragedia y la disolución
~ Chuck Palahniuk
At ninety, everything is air and the difference between you and the medium of your passage is disintegrating with every increment of the ascension.
~ Colson Whitehead