Destruction Quotes

“Okay, sure, he’s a great fucking guy,” Michaels didn’t try to hide his frustration. “Except for the killing everybody part.”
― William Kely McClung, Black Fire

“Black once tried to tackle a Humvee head-on. This was worse”
― William Kely McClung, Black Fire

“Perhaps the most chaotic of Divisions Ke Hui Feng 第一 Ψ
visited was Recycling. First, it was mammoth, so big most of
her tour was spent aboard a drone. Thousands of Dazhong
used the 401 thoroughfares from both east and west, the 427
from the south and the 400 from the north to bring their loads of
recyclables from the MASS to the enormous MEG Recycling Centre.
The roadways might be in ruins outside the MEG boundaries, jagged
fragments of pavement between cavernous potholes and trails made by
traders, but within the MEG the wide lanes had been cleared and
covered with recycled rubber. They were smooth and divided, one lane
in—one lane out, between hundred-metre high foamstone walls on
either side. No one from the MASS would ever get into the MEG illegally;
at least, that was how it seemed.
Only those with proper credentials could enter the massive gates:
MASS traders, or trading companies, who specialized as middlemen
between the gatherers and the Recycling Centre. Not far outside the
gates the MASS traders had rebuilt ancient warehouses in which they
received goods, stored, and sorted them, then brought them, usually
by land freighters, down the ingress roads to meet MEG approved Di
sān overseers and, of course, decontaminated Dazhong who further
sorted the goods.”
― Brian Van Norman, Against the Machine: Evolution

“Each year
it just keeps getting hotter and hotter
and
the heat keeps getting more intense.

And this time it's our responsibility
(even if it's God's retribution
for destroying their planet).
Whether or not you yourself made it happen,
we are responsible to change it.
We're the only ones who can.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Outside the secure space of the circle, vulgarity accumulates. Ada loathes vulgarity because it's there that misery hides. She knows that misery is destructive and, as such, ephemeral.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

“In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backwards; and the hand may be a little child's.”
― George Eliot, Silas Marner

“Every night, the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her, wide-eyed, toward morning. There had been no night in the last two years that Mildred had not swum that sea, had not gladly gone down in it for the third time.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl’s better off dead.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, powerless, hairless, expressionless. We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam. Even fireworks, for all their prettiness, come from the chemistry of the earth. Yet somehow we think we can grow, feeding on flowers and fireworks, without completing the cycle back to reality.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“The things you’re looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine percent of them is in a book. Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for the shore.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there. It doesn’t matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts the lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“There was a silly damn bird called a Phoenix back before Christ. Every few hundred years, he built a pyre and burned himself up. He must have been first cousin to Man. But every time he burnt himself up, he sprang out of the ashes; he got himself born all over again. And it looks like we’re doing the same thing, over and over, but we’ve got one damn thing the Phoenix never had. We know the damn silly things we just did. We know all the damn silly things we’ve done for thousand years and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it, some day we’ll stop making the goddamn funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them. We pick up a few more people that remember, every generation.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“And hold onto one thought: You’re not important. You’re not anything. Some day the load we’re carrying with us may help someone. But even when we had the books on hand, a long time ago, we didn’t use what we got out of them. We went right on insulting the dead. We went right on spitting in the graves of all the poor ones who died before us. We’re going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we’re doing, you can say, We’re remembering. That’s where we’ll win out in the long run. And some day, we’ll remember so much that we’ll build the biggest goddamn steam shovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up. Come on now, we’re going to go build a mirror factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“…Hiroshima terrified Hersey from the moment he arrived; the fact that a single bomb had caused this destruction would torment him throughout the duration of his assignment.”
― Lesley M.M. Blume, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World

“Some people create a rainbow; others curse the sky. That’s how life goes.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“I come around again.
The force that is pulling me towards
you is too strong.
It isn't soothing,
and destruction is destined
as you are the star that died
of grief and forsakenness.”
― Nabil Bhatiya

“There are those dubious causes that destroy our lives, all the while leading us to believe that the murder was sacrifice.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“YOU CAME TO SAY YOU WERE SCARED YOU HAVE LONG BEEN MARKED FOR DESTRUCTION”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“Till the Time 'Homosapiens' was based on Survival - "Fitness" was the only Wealth Humans Needed, and it was Time' when Eco-System wasn't effected by Creatures. "The Golden Era of Evolution ”
― Tanveer Hossain Mullick

“The universe is cyclical, with a process of creation, preservation, and destruction. If we consider the cycles of birth and death, we can see that this process of creation and destruction is the very pulse of the way the universe functions”
― Leo Lourdes, A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

“The mark of a fool is their inability to see that the destruction of what they’re creating always outpaces the thing that they’re creating. Inevitably such an irreversible descent leads them to believe the devastation as being the creation. And that may well be the epitome of the fool.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Designative as destruction, cutting time creatively impulsively, there is no equal in the perspective of art, there is no cleanliness in precision.”
― amd7

“Every man attaches to something hoping to find life. Instead it destroys him.”
― Bill Delvaux, Heroic: The Surprising Path to True Manhood

“Did you know that, in Florida, you get a choice? Death penalty-wise, I mean. Lethal injection or electrocution? It’s up to you. Have you given it any thought?”
― JK Franko, Life for Life

“God may have created the earth in seven days but it took him far less time to destroy it.”
― Anaru Bickford, Aroha

“Yet the only answer to science was more science.
Neither was there a lack of clever rationalizations. The ethical way out of scientists who had built the “ultimate” nuclear weapon was that it would make war impossible. The Cercle Érasme had a similar purpose in mind: They were set on taking the power-mad giants even farther in the same direction.”
― Romain Gary, The Gasp

“There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.”
― Calvin Coolidge, The Price of Freedom

“In your gaze / show me the vanquished vigil of my days”
― Siegfried Sassoon

“He pushed another bag along the top,
Craning his body outward; then a flare
Gave one white glimpse of No Man's Land and wire;
And as he dropped his head the instant split
His startled life with lead, and all went out.”
― Siegfried Sassoon, The War Poems

“After seeing Joe Biden give Hawaiian Electric $95,000,000 after their involvement in the destruction of Lahaina, I will not be voting Democrat in the next election.”
― Steven Magee