--- title: "17 Life Destroyed Quotes by 16 authors" description: "Browse 17 Life Destroyed quotes by 16 authors. Discover the best Life Destroyed sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c83/mercy-pheona-1097_lies_never-fuck-up-someone-else-life-with-you_2222397.jpg" --- > [Never fuck up someone else life with your lies when your life too can be destroyed by the truth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mercy-pheona/never-fuck-up-someone-else-life-with-your-lies-when-your-life-too-can/) [Mercy Pheona](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mercy-pheona/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c83/mercy-pheona-1097_lies_never-fuck-up-someone-else-life-with-you_2222397.jpg) > [Kathy Shelton was a private citizen whose life was destroyed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kellyanne-conway/kathy-shelton-was-a-private-citizen-whose-life-was-destroyed/) [Kellyanne Conway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kellyanne-conway/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f53/kellyanne-conway-1450_citizens_kathy-shelton-was-a-private-citizen-whos_1908378.jpg) > [“Animal life has been all but destroyed in sudden, planetwide exterminations five times in Earth's history.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-brannen/animal-life-has-been-all-but-destroyed-in-sudden-planetwide/) [Peter Brannen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-brannen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/351/peter-brannen-44487_animal-life_animal-life-has-been-all-but-destroyed-i_2113438.jpg) > [My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorna-luft/my-mother-s-life-had-been-destroyed-by-the-garland-legend/) [Lorna Luft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorna-luft/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e71/lorna-luft-9342_destroyed_my-mother-s-life-had-been-destroyed-by-t_2831582.jpg) > [If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/if-we-admit-that-human-life-can-be-ruled-by-reason-the-possibility-of/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/727/leo-tolstoy-55_destroyed_if-we-admit-that-human-life-can-be-ruled_2427939.png) > [Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/without-a-measureless-and-perpetual-uncertainty-the-drama-of-human/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0cc/winston-churchill-95_doubt_without-a-measureless-and-perpetual-unce_535923.jpg) > [Half of life is being destroyed, the other half is trying to fix everything](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/half-of-life-is-being-destroyed-the-other-half-is-trying-to-fix/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/393/anonymous-1_half-life_half-of-life-is-being-destroyed-the-othe_2501894.jpg) > [If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/if-we-admit-that-human-life-can-be-ruled-by-reason-then-all/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a9/leo-tolstoy-55_human-life_if-we-admit-that-human-life-can-be-ruled_2363150.png) > [Enough time had passed that I was ready to write the book Hungry. Was it absolutely difficult? Completely. I had to go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/crystal-renn/enough-time-had-passed-that-i-was-ready-to-write-the-book-hungry-was/) [Crystal Renn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/crystal-renn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d07/crystal-renn-15539_book_enough-time-had-passed-that-i-was-ready_2655794.jpg) > [“People who have never been through any sort of shit always assume that they know how you should react to having your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katja-millay/people-who-have-never-been-through-any-sort-of-shit-always-assume/) [Katja Millay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katja-millay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/912/katja-millay-1409_hell_people-who-have-never-been-through-any-s_357848.jpg) > [“Dr Leila Gupta found that most children had witnessed extreme violence and did not expect to survive. Two-thirds of the children interviewed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ahmed-rashid/dr-leila-gupta-found-that-most-children-had-witnessed-extreme/) [Ahmed Rashid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ahmed-rashid/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bee/ahmed-rashid-19311_children_dr-leila-gupta-found-that-most-children_2121729.jpg) > [Veryday I fight against a mirror for what I have became.. I can't even look at my self straight in the eye,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/myothersweetangel199/veryday-i-fight-against-a-mirror-for-what-i-have-became-i-can-t-even/) [Myothersweetangel199](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/myothersweetangel199/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef3/myothersweetangel199-17991_abuse-of-power_veryday-i-fight-against-a-mirror-for-wha_3006961.jpg) > [This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/this-self-now-as-i-leant-over-the-gate-looking-down-over-fields/) [Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efb/virginia-woolf-49_answers_this-self-now-as-i-leant-over-the-gate-l_2330805.jpg) > [Life cannot be destroyed for good, neithercan history be brought entirely to a halt. A secret streamlet trickles on beneath the heavy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vaclav-havel/life-cannot-be-destroyed-for-good-neithercan-history-be-brought/) [Vaclav Havel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vaclav-havel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f4/vaclav-havel-2013_cracks_life-cannot-be-destroyed-for-good-neithe_2261915.jpg) > [Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common ground, has crumbled into dust and has been swept…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boris-pasternak/everything-established-settled-everything-to-do-with-home-and-order/) [Boris Pasternak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boris-pasternak/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/790/boris-pasternak-1944_changed_everything-established-settled-everythin_1672288.png) > [“You have read Darwin," I said. "But you read him misunderstandingly when you conclude that the struggle for existence sanctions your wanton…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-london/you-have-read-darwin-i-said-but-you-read-him-misunderstandingly-when/) [Jack London](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-london/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/356/jack-london-595_human-life_you-have-read-darwin-i-said-but-you-read_2344796.jpg) > [When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-de-mello/when-you-cling-life-is-destroyed-when-you-hold-on-to-anything-you/) [Anthony de Mello](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-de-mello/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0b/anthony-de-mello-1331_cease_when-you-cling-life-is-destroyed-when-yo_1259536.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life-destroyed/#itemlist", "name": "Life Destroyed Quotes", 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Two-thirds of the children interviewed had seen somebody killed by a rocket and scattered corpses or body parts. More than 70 per cent had lost a family member and no longer trusted adults. ‘They all suffer from flashbacks, nightmares and loneliness. Many said they felt their life was not worth living anymore,’ said Dr Gupta. Every norm of family life had been destroyed in the war.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ahmed Rashid" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ahmed-rashid/dr-leila-gupta-found-that-most-children-had-witnessed-extreme/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bee/ahmed-rashid-19311_children_dr-leila-gupta-found-that-most-children_2121729.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bee/ahmed-rashid-19311_children_dr-leila-gupta-found-that-most-children_2121729.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bee/ahmed-rashid-19311_children_dr-leila-gupta-found-that-most-children_2121729.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Dr Leila Gupta found that most children had witnessed extreme violence and did not expect to survive…” — Ahmed Rashid", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Veryday I fight against a mirror for what I have became.. I can't even look at my self straight in the eye, I am a hazard to everyone and everything I say stuff what I thought at the time.. Then I relized the whole mistake I've done.. I can't do this anymore, When I look at my self... I see some monster… Who's destoryed my whole life, It's like I'm not me at the time, Somebody's in my body and like destroys it why I'm in side and I can't fix it at the time. Then when its all happend bang… My life has been destroyed if you get what I mean.. -.- Noones ever going to understand me..", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Myothersweetangel199" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/myothersweetangel199/veryday-i-fight-against-a-mirror-for-what-i-have-became-i-can-t-even/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef3/myothersweetangel199-17991_abuse-of-power_veryday-i-fight-against-a-mirror-for-wha_3006961.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef3/myothersweetangel199-17991_abuse-of-power_veryday-i-fight-against-a-mirror-for-wha_3006961.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef3/myothersweetangel199-17991_abuse-of-power_veryday-i-fight-against-a-mirror-for-wha_3006961.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Veryday I fight against a mirror for what I have became.. I can't even look at my self straight in the eye…” — Myothersweetangel199", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. 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A secret streamlet trickles on beneath the heavy lid of inertia and pseudo-events, slowly and inconspicuously undercutting it. It may be a long process, but one day it must happen: the lid will no longer hold and will start to crack. 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All that's left is the bare, shivering human soul, stripped to the last shred, the naked force of the human psyche for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely as itself.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Boris Pasternak" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boris-pasternak/everything-established-settled-everything-to-do-with-home-and-order/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/790/boris-pasternak-1944_changed_everything-established-settled-everythin_1672288.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/790/boris-pasternak-1944_changed_everything-established-settled-everythin_1672288.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/790/boris-pasternak-1944_changed_everything-established-settled-everythin_1672288.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common ground, has crumbled…” — Boris Pasternak", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 16, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“You have read Darwin,\" I said. \"But you read him misunderstandingly when you conclude that the struggle for existence sanctions your wanton destruction of life.\" He shrugged his shoulders. \"You know you only mean that in relation to human life, for of the flesh and the fowl and the fish you destroy as much as I or any other man. 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