Quotes About Undoing

It's the incessant need to know more and more and yet still more, to know everything, that is the fast track to destruction. Knowledge is a good thing, Jeffrey, but the arrogance that so often comes with knowledge is ultimately our undoing. Don't be undone, Jeffrey. Do not be undone by pride in your knowledge.

It is the desperate moment when we discover that this empire, which had seemed to us the sum of all wonders, is an endless, formless ruin, that corruption's gangrene has spread too far to be healed by our scepter, that the triumph over enemy sovereigns has made us the heirs of their long undoing.

That which is man-made can be unmade.

The world's first task, as I knew well, a task it never relaxed from, was to undo me. I was even afraid of the sky.

Drolls & dreamers that we are, we fancy that we can undo what we fancy we have done.

I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I do not propose a return to a notion of the phallus as the third term in any and all relations of desire.

undid my knitting. All those little knots that you make one after another, row by row, to knit a sock, I undid them. It's easy. Take the needles out, a little tug and they just fall apart. One after another, row by row. I undid the extra heel and then I just kept going. The foot, the first heel, the ribbing of the leg. All those loops unraveling themselves as you pull the wool. Then there was nothing left to unravel, only a pile of crinkled blue wool in my lap.

When there is an undoing of your life, there is an unknowing of every next millisecond. Every next breath. The peaceful predictability of what you thought would be your life is suddenly replaced by a very unexpected darkness and silence you aren't used to.

A 'group' is simply a collection of changes which possess three simple properties: there must be the possibility of no change, there must exist the possibility of undoing or reversing each change to restore its original state, and any two consecutive changes must give a result that could equally well be attained by another single change.

The mother of an adult child sees her work completed and undone at the same time.' If this holds true, I may have to withstand not only rage, but also my undoing. Can one prepare for one's undoing? How has my mother withstood mine? Why do I continue to undo her, when what I want to express above all else is that I lover her very much?

The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son.

Mourning is not forgetting,' he said gently, his helplessness vanishing and his voice becoming wise. 'It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the knot. The end is gain, of course. Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be made strong, in fact. But the process is like all other human births, painful and long and dangerous.

I liked Hell, I liked to go there alone relieved to lie in the wreckage, ruined, physically undone. The worst had happened. What else could hurt me then? I thought it was the worst, thought nothing worse could come. Then nothing did, and no one.

Don't plead with anyone if you were not at fault, you'll only look inferior, stupid and funny, bolster your ego by doing the undoing.

No time like the present' Mrs Manley (The Lost Lover, 1696), 1663-1724 'From marrying in haste, and repenting at leisure; Not liking the person, yet liking his treasure.' Elizabeth Thomas, 1675-1731 'What's done cannot be undone.' William Shakespeare (Macbeth, 1606), 1564-1616

Rage and grief are savage companions, but despair is the final undoing.

What was made has been unmade.

To most people at the time it was unthinkable that religion might ever not be what it was then. However, Bryce mused, if religion in America were ever to lose its strength and authority, the result would be "the completest revolution of all." The strongest bonding in American society would have gone, and unbounded freedom would run amok and work to cause its own undoing.

And now none of it could be undone. That was the exquisite irony: the act that had undone everything could not itself be undone.