828 Quotes About Destruction

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

It was hard to believe it had finally come down to the nuking of New York City. A virus had managed to bring about what decades of the Cold War and terrorist threats could not accomplish. The United States would never be the same. A major city had been destroyed. Millions were dead.

Any accomplishment achieved through selfishness ultimately accomplishes the destruction of the one who did the accomplishing. And while that’s most certainly an accomplishment, it’s one that I don’t have any interest in.

Respect all living things, and never take what you cannot give back, or destroy what you cannot create.

It is so heartbreaking what we do to children in this world; how they are destroyed.

I often wonder if our greatest ambition is to destroy ourselves.

It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul.

Easter is a marvelous affirmation of the genius of our design, but it is likewise the blunt acknowledgement that left to its own devices, the genius of our design will result in the destruction of our lives.

It's not that other people seduce us. It's that we so desperately crave the destruction of our own lives.