Quotes About Annihilates

Infinity is beautiful; it destroys everything it touches. It annihilates all concepts, all beliefs, all sense of self. No teacher, teaching, book or practice could ever be as effective as simply allowing the thought of infinity to slowly devour you.

Ignorance annihilates self.

The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of life. In the midst of life he calls us and summons us to him.

Let us therefore trust the eternal Spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unfathomable and eternal source of all life. The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too!

You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within

Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which annihilates the memory, together with life.

It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one.

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed.

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.

A woman's hopes are hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

In irony a man annihilates what he posits within one and the same act; he leads us to believe in order not to be believed; he affirms to deny and denies to affirm; he creatives a positive object but it has no being other than its nothingness.

The alternative to being is reacting, and reacting interrupts being and annihilates.

Primo Levi laid bare the oldest function assigned to music. Music, he writes, was felt to be a "malediction." It was a "hypnosis of continuous rhythm that annihilates thought and numbs pain.