Quotes About Undoing

All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.

In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom.

The only lie I ever told her was my undoing, and hers, and the stablemaster's. Such is the power of a lie given to one you love.

All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.

Everything can be undone, including success.

Nothing would ever be the same, but Hannah had taught her that there were times, rare as they were, when what was done could be undone.

Alas, non-therapy relationships sometimes can't withstand the task of undoing childhood-based insecurity (the avoidance of intimacy or the compulsion to merge and fear of being abandoned).

one grows to the belief that, while woman's glory is in her hair, man's glory is to defeat some one. And if he can 'defeat with great slaughter' his monument is twice as high as if he had only visited on his brother man a plain undoing.

She's wearing her hair in a bun, like a ballerina's. Buns are so sexy. They used to be a treat to take apart: it was like opening a gift. Heads with the hair pulled back into buns are so elegant and confined, so maidenish; then the undoing, the dishevelment, the wildness of the freed hair, spilling down the shoulders, over the breasts, over the pillow. He enumerates in his head: Buns I have known.

This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.

My Lasher is powerful beyond your dreams of a daimon, and he has learnt much.' 'Learned,' I repeated in amazement. 'How learned, Deborah, for he is merely a spirit, and they are forever foolish and therein lies the danger, that in granting our wishes they do not understand the complexity of them, and thereby prove our undoing. There are a thousand tales that prove it. Has this not happened? How so do you say learned?

Let it be is the theme that dominates his existence. He sees himself as being ruled by a dreamy mood of acceptance that was partly the source of all his happiness and partly his undoing.

Only people can undo what people have created.

For this alone is lacking even to God, to make undone the things that have once been done. (Quoting Agathon)

We once more find here an illustration of the truth that every exaggeration contains the seed of its own undoing.

Human science cannot discover God; for human science is but the backward undoing of the tepestry-web of God's science.

to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone—to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone:

the reality is that globalization and international economic integration are too far advanced to be undone, except at very great cost.

Hell is only the Cringe Eternal and the Place of our Self's Undoing. When Nietzsche proclaimed God is Dead! he forgot to add that Satan is also dead and we are free from all that antique tat.

I think some people feel that if you question the reality of race, you're questioning racism; you're saying racism isn't real. Racism is real because people actually believe race is real. We'd have to really let go of the 500-year-old idea of race as a worldview in order to undo racism.

It's hard to feel sorry for those willing to fling themselves into disaster. They are their own undoing, my dear. They bring it upon themselves. They don't merit your pity.

Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.

The German penchant for detailed record keeping proved to be their undoing: the date and cause of death for each inmate was dutifully recorded.

Have only this consolation--that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, studious, and curious boy whose love of mystery and of the past was his undoing. He stumbled on things no mortal ought ever to know, and reached back through the years as no one ever should reach; and something came out of those years to engulf him.