Destruction Quotes

“Destruction is essential to construction. If we want to build the new, we must be willing to let the old burn. [...]

The building of the true and beautiful means the destruction of the good enough.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life

“Burn every memory that does not help you grow. Destruction, too, can be necessary.”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light

“It wasn't just the freedom of range, the permission to destroy without constraint. Everything felt so easy. She wasn't calling the flame, she was the flame [...]”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“Reality poisons the spring of fantasy, whereas fantasy, when it erupts into the real world, brings destruction in its wake.”
― Brian Masters, The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer

“Sure, black feels powerful because it IS powerful. Black, the absence of color, is connected to the portal of death.
Even in nature, nearly all living things are in color, but most things black are associated with destructive energy, decay, stagnation, and death: Mold, tooth decay, ashes from burned wood and other objects, volcanic ash, coal, crows, ants, black bears, skunks, panthers, decaying meat, and even frostbite. Rarely in nature do we see living, vibrant things in a natural black state.”
― Cary G. Weldy, The Power of Tattoos: Twelve Hidden Energy Secrets of Body Art Every Tattoo Enthusiast Should Know

“A tremor passes through the soil - do not call it earth. The planet dies. Crickets chirp. Crickets survive, for now, among the crashed ships and broken bodies on this crumbling plain. Silver moss devours steel, and violet flowers choke the dead guns. If this planet lasted long enough, the gives that sprout from the corpses' mouths would grow berries.
It won't, and neither will they.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“the idea of destruction
keeps running through my veins like blood
yet my bones hold the will to create
everyday blood and bones in me clash
to create something; to destroy something”
― Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon

“Choose your cause wisely or it may destroy you thoroughly.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Destruction is tragic and piteous and beautiful. The dream of destroying, building anew, perfecting. Perhaps even, once one has destroyed, the day of perfecting may never come, but in the passion of love I must destroy. I must start a revolution.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

“There is freedom in the destruction.
...all you have to do is survive it.”
― L.M. Browning, Drive Through the Night

“It shouldn't be so easy to nudge people toward what might be their own destruction.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

“Maybe the greatest evidence ‘for’ God is the destruction that we have caused in claiming to ‘be’ god.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Hell is not demons with horns and hot pans! It is a world without the God. Without meaning, without hope, without love and freedom. Only existential sickness. Complete spiritual destruction, which will sooner or later be followed by physical destruction. As a species, we have no value.”
― Andrew Orange, The Outside Intervention

“The current of the times seems to be going down the wrong river carrying a boat with no oars.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Ignorance is obliteration.”
― Lenore Stutznegger, Blue Shadows Fall

“History's shown us time and again, that mixing religion and politics only brings destruction.”
― Raymond Khoury, The Sign

“Если допустить, что жизнь человеческая может управляться разумом, то уничтожится сама возможность жизни.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“All good warriors are seekers of truth. They want to live in a peaceful corner. But war comes to them wherever they go. Since they are blessed with the power of destruction, people keep coming to them to get destructed.”
― Shunya

“People and the planet yearn for relief from the results of destructive, addicting ways!”
― Donna Maltz, Conscious Cures: Soulutions to 21st Century Pandemics

“On Relationships – The end of Midsomar is harrowing but the director claims that it’s meant to be a breakup film. The man has the right concept although you have to question the execution (no pun intended).

Contrast that heroine to Demi Moore’s Molly in the movie Ghost. When her lover dies, she spends the majority of the film in maudlin tears, holding on to the scraps of their affair. His ghost lingers near her, inaudible and invisible, staring in disbelief when she clings to the stub of a concert they once attended. He points out that she hated that concert so why keep that stub? Why cling to the detritus of an affair spent with a man too gutless to say he loved her?

When a relationship is over, then it’s time to sell the ex’s possessions on Ebay. What can’t be sold should be donated to Goodwill—and don’t forget to get that slip of paper so you can claim the donation on your taxes! What Goodwill won’t accept, you give to your family, friends and loved ones. What they won’t take, you toss in the trash or, for the true cathartic effect, you pile in a heap on the lawn and burn it to ashes.”
― Marsha Hinds

“Whether we wish it or not, we may soon have to make a clear choice between the special nation to which we pledge our allegiance and the broad humanity of which we are born a part. This choice is implicit in the world to come. We have a little time in which we can make the choice intelligently. Failing that, the choice will be made for us in the confusion of war, from which the world will emerge unified--the unity of total desolation.”
― E.B. White, The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters

“Despite his lover’s protests, the prince begins to chop away at the first of many trees. He will clear this forest, and build a city upon the land: the greatest city the world has ever seen.”
― Rab Ferguson, Landfill Mountains

“Energy could not be created or destroyed, just passed from one thing to the next, the only common inheritance.”
― Sara Barkat, The Shivering Ground & Other Stories

“Although it would convince us to believe otherwise, greed will always view us as an acceptable causality of whatever it is that greed desires.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Destruction is the process of creating space for something that could not be created until that which occupied that space was removed. And if we cannot see past the carnage of the removal in order to see the possibilities in the space, what was destroyed truly was destroyed.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“That’s how one of my stories that has received the most praise from critics and, especially, from readers came to be published. However, that experience did not prevent me from continuing to rip up manuscripts I didn’t think were publishable, but rather taught me that it’s necessary to tear them in such a way that they can never be pieced back together.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The Scandal of the Century: And Other Writings

“When invaders invade with an intent to only
loot, they don't normally destroy the idols, but if the intent is also to
sabotage the culture of the land.”
― Sapan Saxena, The Tenth Riddle

“I like music because when I hear it, I... I lose myself within myself, if that makes sense. I can feel the whole Earth roiling around me. When I play, I'm not... for once, I'm not destroying. I'm creating.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“Pirate princes are better in fairy tales than reality. In a story, their exploits are glossed over with pretty words and heroic motivations. But in reality, you can't help but see the lives they wreck and the destruction they leave in their wake.”
― Roseanna M. White, To Treasure an Heiress

“Humans were still possessed of the same weaknesses that had brought about their destruction in the old days. Theirs was a race destined to be short-lived. They would find new ways to destroy themselves or to enable the demons and their servants to destroy them.”
― Terry Brooks, The Measure of the Magic