Quotes About Disintegration

Everything seemed to he breaking up:

Og jeg gikk derfra i et grått bilde, og hørte kanskje en rope navnet mitt like over og like under tretoppene. Men hvordan bevege seg i sitt eget navn når det uavlatelig falt fra hverandre, dag for dag krympet det og ble mindre og mindre og mer og mer puslete.

Franklin Roosevelt had warned in his 1935 State of the Union address that "continued dependence" on government support "induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit.

As in the early 20th century, the elemental forces of globalisation have unravelled broad solidarities and loyalties.

New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts.

Continued dependence on relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fibre. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit.' The words are not those of a conservative, but of Franklin Roosevelt.

My argument is this: unless we begin to think of humanizing our American economy, our cities will continue to disintegrate, and the American people increasingly will grow bored and violent.

What shapes our actions is basically what shapes our desire. Desire makes us act and when we act what we do will either lead to a greater integration or disintegration within our personalities, minds, and bodies - and to the strengthening or deterioration of our relationship to God, others, and the world. The habits and disciplines we use to shape our desire form the basis for a spirituality.

bye-bye love, as in songs. All alone now. It was so sad. Why did such things have to disintegrate like that? Why did longing and desire, and friendliness and goodwill too, have to shatter into pieces? Why did they have to be so thoroughfully over? I could make myself cry even more by repeating the key word: love,alone, sad, over. I did it on purpose.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

She had fallen into particles over the course of a single evening.

All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I held on very, very tight indeed. Because in addition to that feeling, that disintegration, there was rage. I wanted to break something.

All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I held on very, very tight indeed.

With the Roman Empire effectively gone (...) Gaul disintegrated into a mass of small barbarian states under so-called kings, dukes, and counts. As we know however, nature abhors a vacuum, sooner or later one state becomes stronger than the rest and ultimately achieves domination. This time, it was the Salian Franks.

Pakistanis have internalized the threats, imagined and real, to the political stability and security of their country. An overwhelming fear of continued chaos and violence, if not outright disintegration, has made it difficult to arrive at balanced assessments of a disturbing present in order to plan for the future as a unified and coherent nation.

If Syria disintegrates, God forbid, the whole area will be under threat.

The central theme of this book is that culture and cultural identities, which at the broadest level are civilization identities, are shaping the patterns of cohesion, disintegration, and conflict in the post-Cold War world.

Qué frío hace, pensó Eleanor infantilmente; nunca seré capaz de volver a dormir con todo este ruido surgiendo de mi cabeza; ¿cómo pueden los demás oír el ruido, si está saliendo de mi cabeza? Estoy desapareciendo centímetro a centímetro en esta casa, me estoy desmoronando cada vez un poco más porque todo este ruido me está desgajando; ¿por qué están asustados los demás?

In a period of international crisis, the doctor said gently, when you find, for instance, cultural patterns rapidly disintergrating... International crisis, Mrs. Arnold said. Patterns. She began to cry quietly. [...] Reality, she said, and went out.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

but the state of sleep, we found, is not characterized by the disintegration of psychical interconnections, but by the focus on the wish to sleep by the psychical system in control of the day.

This isn't just us, by the way; it's every other family I know with young children. The general perception is that if bath time goes, everything goes. Chaos descends. Civilization disintegrates. Children are found wandering the street in tatters, gnawing on animal bones while their parents rock and whimper in alleyways. Kind of thing.)

I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.

Dysfunctional systems will fall under their own weight. Let them.