Collapse Quotes
501 quotes by 435 authors
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Any belief that puts itself beyond doubt nurtures its own collapse.
— Stephen R. Donaldson
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Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to…
— Karl Marx
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Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense,…
— Michael Crichton
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Why do you love the woman you're in love with? Because she is. And that, after all, is God's own definition of Himself; I am…
— Aldous Huxley
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How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)
— Robert Ludlum
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Love! Love until the night collapses!
— Pablo Neruda
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…feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it…
— Pema Chodron
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Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is there left but…
— Julian Barnes
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Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.
— Markus Zusak
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This is the Cuzco asking you to pull on your armor and, mounted on the ample back of a powerful horse, cleave a path through…
— Che Guevara
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do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?
— Jodi Picoult
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I was just thinking... isn't it lucky that we decided to become co-editors? If one takes a blow to the head, the other can fill…
— Gabrielle Zevin
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What makes the voice pathetic is that it doesn't know what kind of people it's reaching. Us. No one hears it, except us. This Age…
— Tony Kushner
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As before the collapse, the setting sun brushed the tiles, brought out the warm brown glow on the wallpaper, and hung the shadow of the…
— Boris Pasternak
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A faith without some doubts is like a human body with no antobodies in it. People who blithely go through life too busy or indifferent…
— Timothy Keller
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And we, spectators always, everywhere, looking at, never out of, everything! It fills us. We arrange it. It collapses. We re-arrange it, and collapse ourselves.…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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What are you grinning at?" Katsa demanded for the third or fourth time. "Is the ceiling about to cave in on my head or something?…
— Kristin Cashore
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Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to…
— H.G. Wells
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True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you've created together collapses, and that everything you…
— Helen Fielding
Who Wrote These Collapse Quotes
435 authors contributed a total of 501 Collapse Quotes, led by these top contributors: