Destroyed Quotes - Page 40

• I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.

  Emily Bronte

  Heart, People, Rejection

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.490, Penguin

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• Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests.

  Albert Camus

  Lying, Men, Years

  Albert Camus (1978). “Notebooks, 1935-1942”, Harcourt

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• The light had simply and utterly destroyed the darkness.

  Ted Dekker

  Light, Darkness

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• He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated.

  Tom Robbins

  Faces, Defeated, Executioners

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.153, Bantam

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• It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.

  Alberto Manguel

  Giving, Library, Matter

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.121, Vintage Canada

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• Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Inspiring, Creativity, Mean

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• During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was disgusted by seeing his fellow soldiers visit French brothels. To keep the Aryan bloodlines pure,and prevent the spread of venereal disease, he commissioned an inflatable doll that Nazi troops could take into battle. Hitler himself designed the dolls to have blond hair and large breasts. The Allied firebombing of Dresden destroyed the factory before the dolls could ever go into wide distribution.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  War, Hair, Soldier

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• If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Reason, Possibility

  "War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman".

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• Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

  Virginia Woolf

  Illusion, Praise, Catastrophe

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.572, Wordsworth Editions

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• Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of Mrs. Armstrong's mother, the detective methods of Mr. Hardman, the suggestion of Mr. MacQueen that Ratchett himself destroyed the charred note we found, Princess Dragomiroff's Christian name, and a grease spot on a Hungarian passport.

  Agatha Christie

  Christian, Mother, Princess

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• I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction

  Lois Lowry

  Past, People, Haste

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One could say: "The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary." The universe would be completely self-contained and not affected by anything outside itself. It would neither be created nor destroyed. It would just BE.

  Stephen Hawking

  Self, Would Be, Boundaries

  Stephen W. Hawking (2003). “The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe”, New Millenium

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• God created dinosaurs. God destroyed dinosaurs. God created Man. Man destroyed God. Man created dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat man...Woman inherits the earth.

  Michael Crichton

  Men, Earth, Dinosaurs

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• With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Roots, Meditation

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• And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

  Blaise Pascal

  Reign, Truth Is, Crime

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.

  Mortimer Adler

  Wisdom, Ignorance, Thinking

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• I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Money, Hands

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• True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had haunted my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Of all the sense of hearing acute.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Mad, Disease, Hearing

  Edgar Poe, “The Tell - Tale Heart”

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• When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right.

  Ted Kooser

  Firsts, Lightning, Thunderstorm

  Jim Harrison, Ted Kooser (2013). “Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry”, p.29, Copper Canyon Press

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• Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children, the old send the young to die, because they have no imagination. They have power. Can you have power and imagination at the same time? Can you kill people you don’t know and have compassion for them at the same time?

  Wendell Berry

  Children, Mean, Compassion

  Wendell Berry (2005). “Hannah Coulter: A Novel”, p.168, Counterpoint Press

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• There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.

  George Orwell

  Forever, Enemy, Victory

  George Orwell, Michael Sherborne (2005). “Nineteen eighty-four, [by] George Orwell”

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• Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

  Voltaire

  Heart, Soul, Sensual

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• For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Dust, Pages

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• We are created by being destroyed.

  Franz Wright

  Franz Wright (2009). “Walking to Martha's Vineyard”, p.56, Knopf

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• Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.

  Wendell Berry

  Freedom, Heart, Thinking

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.62, Counterpoint Press

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