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Quotes About Dissolution

History tells us, that from the moment when the moral forces on which a civilisation rested have lost their strength, its final dissolution is brought about by those unconscious and brutal crowds known, justifiably enough, as barbarians.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Some cultural phenomena bear a striking resemblance to the cells of cell biology, actively preserving themselves in their social environments, finding the nutrients they need and fending off the causes of their dissolution.
~ Daniel Dennett
Women who are stronger than the society allows them to be often feel a need for something stronger than themselves, and to dissolve into it.
~ Barbara Sukowa
In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.
~ A. S. Byatt
Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.
~ Tom Robbins
The easiest way to destroy a country is from within.
~ Unknown
When all the world dissolves,And every creature shall be purified,All places shall be hell that is not Heaven.
~ Christopher Marlowe
Time for me means the dissolution of matter. The rotting of the organic as if time were a worm robbing the fruit of its pulp. Time does not exist. What we call time is the movement of the evolution of things, but time itself does not exist. Or it exists immutably and into time we transfer ourselves.
~ Clarice Lispector
The snow is tending toward nothingness.
~ Unknown
In a sense our brains are like an archive, where material is well-preserved and properly catalogued, but also dissolves, or becomes re-shelved or misplaced, or in some cases never makes it there to begin with.
~ Unknown
Do not, I beseech you, be troubled about the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistaken the hour of the night; it is already morning.
~ Hilaire Belloc
I was never going to be happy with you," Mom told him. "Your world isn't for people like me." The tall man regarded her for a long moment. "You made vows," he said finally. She lifted her chin. "And then I renounced them.
~ Holly Black
freedom exists not in finding answers, but in the dissolution of all questions.
~ U.G. Krishnamurti
The best thing to break is a contract.
~ W. C. Fields
This can't be normal death, he said to himself. This is unnatural; the regular momentum of dissolution has been replaced by another factor imposed upon it, a pressure arbitrary and forced.
~ Philip K. Dick
It's time for our warring tribes to understand a simple reality: that to embrace illiberalism and intolerance is to court dissolution.
~ Unknown
he was solid. he was there as i dissolved.
~ David Levithan
But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears – dissolution, disappearance. Even
~ Zadie Smith
it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance
~ Zadie Smith
The center was not holding.
~ Joan Didion
I had always been suspicious of women who described the dissolution of their marriages as something that happened overnight. How could you not know? I'd thought. How could you miss all those signs? Well, let me tell you how: you were so busy putting out a fire directly in front of you that you were completely oblivious to the inferno raging at your back.
~ Jodi Picoult
The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.
~ Christopher Bond
Do not weep, dear friend. Have I not told you that Separation is inevitable from all near and dear to us? Whatever is born, produced, conditioned, contains within itself the nature of its own Dissolution. It cannot be otherwise.
~ Unknown
This sense of concreteness that you perceived at the very first line bears in it also the sense of loss, the vertigo of dissolution, and you realize that you perceived this, too, alert Reader that you are, from the first page, when though pleased with the precision of this writing, you sensed that, to tell the truth, everything was slip through your fingers…
~ Italo Calvino