“Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had…”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”— Cassandra Clare, amazon.com
“Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.”— Robert Frost, en.wikisource.org
“Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.”— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com
“It’s the ones you love the most who can lift you in an instant, and destroy you without trying.”— Dorothy Koomson, amazon.com
“Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one.”— Victor Scheffer, famousscientists.org
“Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction.”— Elie Wiesel, nobelprize.org
“Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.”— Arthur Golden, amazon.com
“To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”— Cassandra Clare, amazon.com
“My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you’ve been mean to someone, they won’t believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it’s time to stop being nice, then destroy them.”— Laurell K. Hamilton, amazon.com
“Time is a dream, a destroying dream. It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas. It covers the face of beauty, and tumbles walls.”— Conrad Aiken, amazon.com
“When he’s the last thing you need, he’ll drain you. He’ll exhaust you. He’ll destroy you. And you won’t see it that way. In fact, you won’t notice it at all. But everyone else will.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“Remember that grief is a necessary pain. It’s your only way to heal. To starve it will destroy you.”— S.M. Boyce, amazon.com
“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“Is it possible to love something so much, you imagine it wants to destroy you only because it has denied you?”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.com
“You ruin your life by desensitizing yourself. We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply, to let people know what they mean to us. Caring is not synonymous with crazy.”— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com