Collapse Quotes
501 quotes by 435 authors
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I'll take the cemetery," Kane said. He didn't sound excited. Rather, he sounded resigned. "The club might collapse if I go.
— Gena Showalter
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You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.
— Bill Maher
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Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our…
— Christopher Moore
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Panic. You open your mouth. Open it so wide your jaws creak. You order your lungs to draw air, NOW, you need air, need it…
— Khaled Hosseini
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That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress it , collapse…
— Ahdaf Soueif
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Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative forces. But you…
— Terry Pratchett
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Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to…
— Deb Caletti
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The work of memory collapses time.
— Walter Benjamin
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We have one crystal clear reason apart from the blessed happiness of this way of life. It is this: prayer is the core of our…
— Amy Carmichael
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Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes along to drag…
— Haruki Murakami
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I didn't understand that playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. No one can be any one…
— Portia de Rossi
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What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They…
— Walt Whitman
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...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous growth of the…
— Pentti Linkola
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[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.
— Milan Kundera
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Somehow, she had grown into a woman in between the fall of kings and collapse of worlds. Once she had been terrified of change. Then…
— Brandon Sanderson
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…Abe didn’t say a word. He made straight for his journal and wrote down a single sentence. One that would radically alter the course of…
— Seth Grahame-Smith
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happened as I listened: I felt pain. Not in my head, not in my arm, not in my leg; everywhere at once. I told myself…
— Jennifer Egan
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I think the world has mostly ended because the cities we wander through are as rotten as we are. Buildings have collapsed. Rusted cars clog…
— Isaac Marion
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My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather. One…
— Karen Russell
Who Wrote These Collapse Quotes
435 authors contributed a total of 501 Collapse Quotes, led by these top contributors: