Collapse Quotes - Page 18

• happened as I listened: I felt pain. Not in my head, not in my arm, not in my leg; everywhere at once. I told myself there was no difference between being “inside” and being “outside,” that it all came down to X’s and O’s that could be acquired in any number of different ways, but the pain increased to a point where I thought I might collapse, and I limped away.

  Jennifer Egan

  Pain, Differences, Numbers

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.74, Anchor

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…Abe didn’t say a word. He made straight for his journal and wrote down a single sentence. One that would radically alter the course of his life, and bring a fledgeling nation to the brink of collapse.
I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  America, Vampire, Made

  "Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter". Book by Seth Grahame-Smith, April 29, 2010.

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• Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.

  Christopher Moore

  Despair, Rolling, Bags

  Christopher Moore (2010). “Fool”, p.105, Hachette UK

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• Panic. You open your mouth. Open it so wide your jaws creak. You order your lungs to draw air, NOW, you need air, need it NOW. But your airways ignore you. They collapse, tighten, squeeze, and suddenly you're breaithing through a drinking straw. Your mouth closes and your lips purse and all you can manage is a croak. Your hands wriggle and shake. Somewhere a dam has cracked open and a flood of cold sweat spills, drenches your body. You want to scream. You would if you could. Cut you have to breathe to scream. Panic.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Drinking, Cutting, Air

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.58, A&C Black

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• That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress it , collapse on to it . The white foam knows nothing better than those sands which wait for it , rise to it and suck it in .but what do the waves know of the massed, hot, still sands of the desert just twenty , no , ten feet beyond the scalloped edge ? And what does the beach knows of depths, the cold, the currents just there, where-do you see it? - Where the water turns a deeper blue.

  Ahdaf Soueif

  Beach, Blue, White

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• Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All of it without them. And I can't breathe then, like someone's stepping on my heart, Laila. So weak I just want to collapse somewhere.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Heart, Thinking, Years

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• Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn't mean you let it trickle away. it meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard stream of wrath power the turbines of revenge.

  Terry Pratchett

  Strong, Revenge, Mean

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• The work of memory collapses time.

  Walter Benjamin

  Memories

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• We have one crystal clear reason apart from the blessed happiness of this way of life. It is this: prayer is the core of our day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse, would be pithless, a straw blown in the wind. But how can you pray--really pray, I mean--with one against who you have a grudge or whom you have been discussing critically with another? Try it. You will find it cannot be done.

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, Prayer, Blessed

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• I didn't understand that playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. No one can be any one thing all the time.

  Portia de Rossi

  Roles, Playing Roles, One Thing

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.291, Simon and Schuster

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• What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

  Walt Whitman

  Death, Children, Men

  1855 Leaves of Grass, 'Song of Myself', section 6.

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• [W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Burden

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• Somehow, she had grown into a woman in between the fall of kings and collapse of worlds. Once she had been terrified of change. Then she had been terrified of losing Elend. Now her fears were more nebulous - worries of what would come after she was gone, worries of what would happen to the people of the empire if she failed.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Kings, Fall, People

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Hero of Ages: Mistborn Book Three”, p.160, Hachette UK

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• No matter how often I think I can't stand it anymore, I always do. There is no alternative. I don't fall, I don't foam at the mouth, faint, collapse or die. It's the same for all of us. You can't get out of the inside of your own head. Something keeps you going. Something always does.

  Janice Galloway

  Fall, Thinking, Foam

  Janice Galloway (1989). “The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel”

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• It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.

  Donald Miller

  People, World, Shows

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.118, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasure. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefit from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship, and then a monarchy.

  Alexander Fraser Tytler

  Democracies Have, Government, Democracy

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• All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we have added 1300 cities with populations over 100,000. When the environment is forced to file Chapter 11, the ecology collapses. Nations recover from war but not from a failed eco-system. The status of our environment is more threatening than all wars. It is forever.

  Gaylord Nelson

  War, Past, Years

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• Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.

  M. Scott Peck

  Love, Fall, Limits

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• When the enemy starts to collapse you must pursue him without the chance of letting go. If you fail to take advantage of your enemies collapse, they may recover.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Letting Go, War, Enemy

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• We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights - or a leap to an entirely different level. We've taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Taken, Hippie

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• When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is collapse.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Strong, War

  Sun Tzu (2012). “The Art of War”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which the general is responsible. These are: (1) Flight; (2) insubordination; (3) collapse; (4) ruin; (5) disorganisation; (6) rout.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Army

  Sun Tzu (2012). “Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text”, p.137, Tuttle Publishing

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• When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.

  Pliny the Elder

  Latin, Rodents, Littles

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• But I never get attracted to fans cause the eager beaver could be the collapse of a dam

  Drake

  Humble, Rapper, Hip Hop

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• Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray.

  Richard Wilbur

  Rain, Rivers, Water

  Richard Wilbur, “A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the VILLa Sciarra”

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