Destroyed Quotes - Page 15

• The agony of love destroyed often leaves us swearing never to love again.

  Ruben Papian

  Agony, Swearing, Love Again

  Ruben Papian (2013). “How to Wish”, p.13

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I didn't want the easy kind of love, I wanted the crazy love, the kind of love that created and destroyed all at the same time.

  Julie Murphy

  Crazy, Want, Kind

  4 Copy quote

• What made Obama unique was that he was the ultimate charismatic politician - the most unknown stranger ever to achieve the presidency in the United States. No one knew who he was, he came out of nowhere, he had this incredible persona that floated him above the fray, destroyed Hillary, took over the Democratic Party and became president. This is truly unprecedented: A young unknown with no history, no paper trail, no well-known associates, self-created.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Party, Unique, Self

  "'Obama Is Average'". Interview with Klaus Brinkbäumer and Gregor-Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. October 26, 2009.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• As soon as slavery fired upon the flag it was felt, we all felt, even those who did not object to slaves, that slavery must be destroyed. We felt that it was a stain to the Union that men should be bought and sold like cattle.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Men, Flags, Slavery

  Said to Otto von Bismarck in June 1878. " Around the World with General Grant". Book by John Russell Young. Volume 7, p. 416, www.granthomepage.com. 1879.

  174 Copy quote

  Show source

• He, who is gone, was one of the very kindest friends I possessed, and yet he was not kinder perhaps to me, than to others. His intense mind and powerful feelings would, I truly believe, have done the world some service, had his life been spared but he was of too sensitive a nature and thus he was destroyed!

  John Keats

  Powerful, Believe, Feelings

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats: Lamia (Unabridged Edition): A Narrative Poem from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets, best known for Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Indolence, Ode to Psyche, The Eve of St. Agnes, Hyperion…”, p.365, e-artnow

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There will be outrage and disgust and people will turn on me at the last, they will hate me, my reputation will forever be destroyed, my punishment earned, self-inflicted like this gunshot wound, and the world will finally know that I was the greatest feather man of them all.

  John Boyne

  Hate, Men, Self

  9 Copy quote

• Art cannot be bought or sold. It can only be created or destroyed.

  Iimani David

  Art

  5 Copy quote

• Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and staff, my resting place and shield, and not mine only, for art leaves nobody out. Even those from whom art has been stolen away by tyranny, by poverty, begin to make it again. If the arts did not exist, at every moment, someone would begin to create them, in song, out of dust and mud, and although the artifacts might be destroyed, the energy that creates them is not destroyed.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Song, Art, Dust

  20 Copy quote

• Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Jest, Impression, Expected

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.321

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nature has placed in the front part of man, as he moves, all those parts which when struck cause him to feel pain; and this is felt in the joints of the legs, the forehead and the nose, and has been so devised for the preservation of man, because if such pain were not felt in these limbs they would be destroyed by the many blows they receive.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Pain, Moving, Blow

  Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.271, Lulu.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits childred to be destroyed.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Attitude, Religion, Permit

  Daniel Berrigan, Nhá̂t Hạnh (Thích) (1975). “The Raft Is Not the Shore: Conversations Toward a Buddhist-Christian Awareness”, Beacon Press (MA)

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

  Aeschylus

  Compulsion

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.247, Delphi Classics

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• No one's noticed. So much is destroyed, we can't be bothered.

  Doris Lessing

  Bothered

  Doris Lessing (2003). “A Home for the Highland Cattle and the Antheap”, p.142, Broadview Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Humility consists of knowing that in this world the whole soul, not only what we term the ego in its totality, but also the supernatural part of the soul, which is God present in it, is subject to time and to the vicissitudes of change. There must be absolutely acceptance of the possibility that everything material in us should be destroyed. But we must simultaneously accept and repudiate the possibility that the supernatural part of the soul should disappear.

  Simone Weil

  Humility, Acceptance, Knowing

  "Concerning the Our Father". "Waiting on God". Book by Simone Weil, Routledge & Kegan Paul edition, p. 153, 1972.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic meanings survive unchanged in all that matters through times of interruption, diminishment, neglect; they outlive governments and creeds and the societies, even the very civilization that produced them. They cannot be destroyed altogether because they represent the substance of faith and the only reality. They are what we find again when the ruins are cleared away.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Art, Reality, Government

  "Flowering Judas". "Flowering Judas" by Katherine Anne Porter, The Modern Library, 1940.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have no patience with this dreadful idea that whatever you have in you has to come out, that you can't suppress true talent. People can be destroyed; they can be bent, distorted, and completely crippled. In spite of all the poetry, all the philosophy to the contrary, we are not really masters of our fate.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Philosophy, Fate, Ideas

  "Silences". Book by Tillie Olsen, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier.

  Anton Chekhov

  Creativity, Men, Animal

  "Uncle Vanya". Act I. Play by Anton Chekhov, 1897.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.

  John Galsworthy

  Love, Fruition

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.951, Delphi Classics

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our civilization represses not only "the instincts", not only sexuality, but any form of transcendence. Among one-dimensional men, it is not surprising that someone with an insistent experience of other dimensions, that he cannot entirely deny or forget, will run the risk either of being destroyed by the others, or of betraying what he knows.

  R. D. Laing

  Running, Men, Civilization

  24 Copy quote

• One who advances his name, destroys his name. One who does not increase, diminishes.

  Hillel the Elder

  Names, Doe, Increase

  "Pirkei Avot". A Mishna tractate. Chapter 1:13, www.chabad.org.

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• In every remodelling of the present, the existing condition of things must be supplanted by a new one. Now every variety of circumstances in which men find themselves, every object which surrounds them, communicates a definite form and impress to their internal nature. This form is not such that it can change and adapt itself to any other a man may choose to receive; and the end is foiled, while the power is destroyed, when we attempt to impose upon that which is already stamped in the soul a form which disagrees with it.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Men, Soul, May

  "The Limits of State Action". Book by David Sidorsky. Chapter 16, 1792.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say here and now that any unsolicited manuscripts or typescripts sent to me will be destroyed unread. You must make your way yourself. Why you should be so set on the nearly always disappointing profession is a puzzling question.

  Kingsley Amis

  Struggle, Writing, Risk

  Kingsley Amis (1990). “The Amis collection: selected non-fiction, 1954-1990”, Arrow

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• More dreams are destroyed in bed than are ever found there.

  Robin Skelton

  Dream, Bed, Found

  1991 A Devious Dictionary.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Photography, Art, Invention

  18 Copy quote

• Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, the Kennedys—there is always a pattern where a piece of information is destroyed, in which a witness is killed. It’s so predictable, you can go back and look up old cases.

  Mae Brussell

  Kings, Looks, Pieces

  Mae Brussell (2014). “The Essential Mae Brussell: Investigations of Fascism in America”, p.16, Feral House

  9 Copy quote

  Show source