Destruction Quotes

If and when our civilization comes to ruin, the destructive agent will be Science; man's knowledge of science, applied to warfare, meaning slaughter not only of human bodies, but of human institutions, of all we have created through the centuries.

~ Cicely Hamilton

Even as a waste disposal site, the world is finite.

~ William R. Catton Jr

...seeking refuge from a world in which huge and mysterious forces were let loose to destruction.

~ Diana Gabaldon

Harmony would only come with destruction.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

Destruction makes people go away so,if you hide inside destruction,you're safe

~ Emma Abdullah

Your enemies are not to be destroyed, grant them longevity to witness your success.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Cancer, he’d said near the end, is the great equalizer. It doesn’t care who you are or what kind of salary you make. It doesn’t give one damn if you are a good person or a bad one. It is the ultimate villain because it’s not capable of mercy. It only knows how to destroy and that’s exactly what it does. Destroys everything.

~ Kristine Wyllys

Without inner-peace and contentment, success will ultimately destroy you.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Destruction is easily reversed, Brain drainage howbeit is a civilization killer

~ A.m.m Alusi

Stone should last forever, but on that night I came to understand that a stone was only another form of dust. Streams of holy dust loomed in the air, and every breath included remnants of the Temple, so that we inhaled that which was meant to stand through eternity.

~ Alice Hoffman

A house can be replaced but never a lost life.

~ Sarah Salem

The Indians, keeping to themselves, laughed at your superior methods and lived from the land more abundantly and with less labor than you did... And when your own people started deserting in order to live with them, it was too much... So you killed the Indians, tortured them, burned their villages, burned their cornfields... But you still did not grow much corn.

~ Edmund S. Morgan

Here a tower shining brightOnce stood gleaming in the nightWhere now There's just the rubble in the holefrom White City

~ Shane Macgowan

I, uh, didn't mean to upset everyone.Didn't you though? he spoke softly. You seem to have a habit of coming in like a storm and leaving a path of destruction and confusion in your wake.

~ Chanda Hahn

Destruction is like a snow-ball rolled down a Hill, for its Bulk encreases by its own swiftness and thus Disorder spreads.

~ Peter Ackroyd

I didn't just feel it; I recorded each and every sensation. I can replicate each one. I will. I'll play it back plus ten for the pastardthat caused my love to fall. And before they go down, I'll wet the concrete with their brain mattter. I'll explode their marrow out of their bones and make a mess of their capillaries. I'll make a paste of their eyes, Yasmine, I promise. I'll make them bleed from their ears and turn their digestive system against them. They'll digest their own organs. I'll increase their pain receptors so that their clothes feel like sandpaper. I'll make their own breath soun d like a DC-10 is landing in their chest. I'll fill their longs with every excessive fluid in their body I can find. I'll make a decomposing mess of them, I swear I will. They'll pray to gods they don't belive in for the pain to end before I explode each taste bud in their mough and inflame their genitals with the stray parasites they immune system usually fights off.

~ Ayize Jama-Everett

Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities.

~ Veronica Roth

If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its destruction.

~ Lev Shestov

Now you see what kind of creatures we are, Hugh. Eating things alive. That's what we do. How can you have much respect for mankind, or any belief in the social struggle?

~ Malcolm Lowry

Today, Chanel sells nothing other than its griffe; the griffe is an absolute symbol for 'fashion' which, having become historical, is now able to sell this history better than it could sell fashion. Chanel's lasting success proves that fashion has become self-referential: the fetish of the mere name shows how it has begun to revolve around itself. The House of Chanel produces what Coco most abhorred: a thing of the past, dead. The visible, outwardly displayed griffe has become the opposite of individualized style: instead it confirms the latent uniform collectivity, which had always defined Chanel-wear; in the end, it signifies membership of an expensive club. The Chanel woman does not want to display her own taste, she wants to belong. In order to be certain, she is laden with Chanel signs and accessories, like amulets to protect against the evil eye; on the pocket, on the belt, on the dress buttons, on the watch, on costume jewelry, proudly stand the initials of the founder of the house, to which she knows she belongs.

~ Barbara Vinken

And I just walked away. Again and again, I walked away as her world fell down around her. As they destroyed her. We destroyed her.

~ Chelsea Pitcher

A revolution is taking place within her, as though a lifetime's experience could be outdistanced in the span of a conversation.

~ A.s.a. Harrison

The use of tobacco is one of the most evident of all the retrograde influences of our time. It invades all classes, destroys social life, and is turning, in the words of Mantegazza, the whole of Europe into a cigar divan.

~ Charles R. Drysdale

There are two types of fear:There is a fear of something that is presently before you, be it a monster under your bed or a knife welding maniac pounding his fist through your door. It’s a fear that you recognize as a fear that is approaching you at the very moment. It may not even be something drastic, it could very well be that the fear before you may be a confrontation with an enemy, a fear of heights or even a fear of tuna (trust me, it exists). Regardless, the fear is in your face and it's not going anywhere.The second type of fear is a type of in which you do not see a reaction right away, or in some cases, ever. You make work on something your entire life and fear the outcome, but the outcome may only catch up with you years down the road. This fear seems to come in more forms than we mere mortals can comprehend. It is a fear of success, a fear of failure; a fear of unbelievable strength and power. It can crush you under its masculine hand and suck the life out of you because although it is not standing before you staring you right in the eye, it is mentally tormenting you to the point of self destruction.

~ Leigh Hershkovich

If this is the will of God, it takes a strange and terrible shape. I did not know that the God of Battles was vile like this. I never knew that a saint could summon torment like this.

~ Philippa Gregory

For centuries after obtaining power during the reign of Constantine, Christians went on a censorship rampage that led to the virtual illiteracy of the ancient Western world and ensured that their secret would be hidden from the masses. The scholars of other schools/sects evidently did not easily give up their arguments against the historicizing of a very ancient mythological creature. We have lost the exact arguments of these learned dissenters because Christians destroyed any traces of their works. Nonetheless, the Christians preserved the contentions of their detractors through their own refutations.For example, early Church Father Tertullian (c. 160-220 CE), an 'ex-Pagan' and a presbyter at Carthage, ironically admitted the true origins of the Christ story and other such myths by stating in refutation of his critics, 'You say we worship the sun; so do you. Interestingly, a previously strident believer and defender of the faith, Tertullian later renounced orthodox Christianity after becoming a Montanist.

~ D.m. Murdock

The water and the wind will wear the wood down, until only water and wind remain.

~ Lisa Mantchev

Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson.

~ Dan Wells

I wanted myself. I wouldn't let what was mine be destroyed.

~ Stephenie Meyer

An avalanche doesn't look back at the damage it causes.

~ Marty Rubin

You have to love someone completely to be willing to destroy them.

~ Deanna Raybourn

Because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we all have become lazy. Lazy people are like cancer. They spread. Before you know it, the entire country is destroyed.

~ Tahir Shah

…If one who slays one is a murderer then he who slays a thousand is not a hero,' said Lalu.- Pg. #112, Across the Black Waters.

~ Mullk Raj Anand

Lady Moon rose an' gazed o'er my busted'n'beautsome Valleys with silv'ry'n'sorryin' eyes, an' the dingos mourned for the died uns.

~ David Mitchell

It was as if some great ocean of destruction had rolled its unyielding tide through the city and then, upon its terrible recession, left behind only a shoreline of concrete sand and crushed humanity.

~ Jay Posey

Anyone who would rejoice to see someone else live a life of destruction is also, living an unrighteous life.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

Knowledge is knowledge whether it teaches you construction or destruction.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Always remember: Power in the wrong hands can destroy the owner. The same power that gave victory to Samson is what destroyed him.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

I can't destroy things so beautiful.Time will destroy them if you don't. Time destroys everything. But if you destroy them, it will mean something.

~ Neal Shusterman

Love me. You have destroyed everything! But if you love me, it can all be restored in a new form. Love me.

~ Anne Rice