Annihilation Quotes

139 quotes by 117 authors

Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they're not afraid of wolves. — Al Yankovic
All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an… — Jacob Burckhardt
Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Feeling "comfortable" is the short path to annihilation. — Frederick Lenz
The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation. — Hermann Hesse
My being consists of matter and form, that is, of soul and body; annihilation will reach neither of them, for they were never produced out… — Marcus Aurelius
England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the… — Karl Marx
Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter. — Arthur Eddington
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist. — Ian Mcewan
Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but… — Andrew O'Hagan
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security… — Adlai E. Stevenson
The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation. — Simone Weil
A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent. — Elie Wiesel
Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that would prevent for… — Graham Greene
Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it… — George MacDonald
When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is… — Leo Tolstoy
It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive… — Kate Chopin

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