Quotes About Disintegration

In our spiritual disintegration we may not be able to rule the earth, but we now have the power several times over to ruin it utterly.

We all come from divorce. This is an age of divorce. Things that belong together have been taken apart. And you can't put it all back together again. What you can do, is the only thing that you can do. You take two things that ought to be together and you put them together. Two things! Not all things.

A disintegrating individualism had weakened the Athenian character, and left the city a prey at last to the sternly-nurtured Spartans.

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

There was no ritual when one fell apart, society preferring to wait until one was lost entirely. The

There was never a cataclysmic moment in which things might have been, however briefly, etched in relief against memory, against things to come—a moment which, by its sheer magnitude, defined her history and her future. Instead, Kathryn thinks, she has disintegrated slowly over a number of years.

Miranda put a hand over her face and looked through her fingers, the world in pieces, her father's legs gone, the woman's torso vanished. Now they looked like broken dolls, their jaws clacking, breeze blowing through their hollows.

Quando os Estados não são governados em toda a sua extensão é a própria ordem internacional ou regional que começa a desintegrar-se.

You're nothing but a pack of cards!

If you assume that it was a valid experiment, then its disintegration reveals a very substantial part of what has been found since then, including the fact that you can get heat generation at high temperature.

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

Dissipation is actually much worse than cataclysm.

How perverse! just when everything seems to be in order and as families gather round the table to have supper,the phantom of the superclass appears,selling impossible dreams:luxury,beauty,power.And the family falls apart

Part of the reason I actually preferred Twin Peaks's second season to its first was the fascinating spectacle of watching a narrative structure disintegrate and a narrative artist freeze up and try to shuck and jive when the plot reached a point where his own weaknesses as an artist were going to be exposed (just imagine the fear: this disintegration was happening on national TV).

As everything becomes bad in you, all the good goes out of the world like air out of a big broken balloon.

How unpleasant and discouraging it is that, after such a lofty moment, when the course of events prepares to leap, disintegration and laxity ensue, the humming of the swarm returns, of the swarm...

Para acabar con el ajedrez Correspondencia ¡Es fascinante comprobar hasta qué punto puede desintegrarse la razón cuando se enfrenta a una siniestra verdad ocasional y huye en desordenada retirada para mejor materializar un espejismo y construir defensas precarias contra el asalto de una realidad demasiado terrible!

Es fascinante comprobar hasta qué punto puede desintegrarse la razón cuando se enfrenta a una siniestra verdad ocasional y huye en desordenada retirada para mejor materializar un espejismo y construir defensas precarias contra el asalto de una realidad demasiado terrible!

Maybe I have merely undergone a great, slow disintegration. And my struggle against that disintegration is just that: is just trying to give it a form. A form gives contours to chaos, gives a construct to amorphous substance… the vision of an infinite flesh is a madman's vision, but if I cut that flesh into pieces and spread those pieces over days and famines… then it will no longer be perdition and madness: it will be humanized life again.

Art is the outward integration inspired by the artist's inner disintegration.

It might be said that the United States is the first known case of a civilization developing through disintegration.

it is always he, unfortunate wretch, who assumes the rôle of executioner in the process of value-disintegration, and on the day when the trumpets of judgment sound it is the man released from all values who becomes the executioner of a world that has pronounced its own sentence.

I am coming unraveled. I am coming undone. page 148

And then he left, and came back, and our lives fell apart, like a well-loved book that you'd read and read again, until one night you picked it up to read yourself to sleep and the binding collapsed, sending dozens of pages spiraling toward the floor.