828 Quotes About Destruction

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.

A house can be replaced but never a lost life.

To a materialist life is nothing but a complex self-sustaining pattern, easily disrupted and gone when destroyed.

I was once, I am, and I will always be my children’s father. As to those individuals who have tried so desperately to destroy the fact, I offer forgiveness and seekreconciliation. As to the institutions that have supported the effort to destroy the fact, I pray that: Lady Justice will seek the truth rather than excuse it; and that she will extol the American family rather than destroy it.

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

Being a good person has nothing to do with allowing people to destroy you.

True creativity is inherently destructive, and truly creative individuals always, without exception, seek to destroy the mediums they work within.

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.

All of the important acts of creation and destruction involve the issuance of words and the application of signature.