What nourishes me also destroys me in the end

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

— Graham Greene

Socialism destroys the incentive to produce, dampens the human spsirit and results, ultimately , in less for everyone.

— David Limbaugh

“None destroys a city like Queek”

— David Guymer

Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.

— Richard Steele

“That’s the thing about the End of the World. It doesn’t send out Save the Date cards before it destroys everything.”

— Jessica Meyers

“War is no joke, it seems. It destroys, kills, burns, separates, brings unhappiness.”

— Zlata Filipović

“Time destroys everything we do, whatever it is.”

— Thomas Bernhard

“she is never more herself than when she destroys herself.”

— Christina Stead

Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward.…

— Peter Eisenman

“Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition.”

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

— Aleister Crowley

“Deception destroys. Truth restores.”

— Kireshel Harvey-Covell

A normal recession disrupts people's lives, but a long recession destroys them. You lose output, prosperity, family stability, self-esteem, and many other qualities on…

— Matthew Yglesias

War destroys people's souls. Most people focus on physical injuries, but the invisible injuries can take a lifetime to heal and affects the lives…

— Emmanuel Jal

Anxiety destroys us, but it drives the common man.

— Bad Religion