Collapse Quotes
501 quotes by 433 authors
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That's why you did it. You wanted your world to collapse around you. You wanted everything to get as dark as possible.
— Jay Asher
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Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever…
— Adrienne Rich
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He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they've been living is in a state of collapse and…
— Daniel Handler
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In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when…
— Isaac Marion
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If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.
— Sarah Kane
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I was too tired to think. I merely felt the town as a unique unreality. What was it? I knew -- the moon's picture of…
— E E Cummings
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The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.
— John Green
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I think it’s important to have a good hard failure when you're young. I learned a lot out of that. Because it makes you kind…
— Walt Disney
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i cried when i saw those buildings collapse on themselves like a broken heart.
— Suheir Hammad
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A power struggle collapses when you withdraw your energy from it. Power struggles become uninteresting to you when you change your intention from winning to…
— Gary Zukav
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I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that ended our last…
— Suzanne Collins
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He was a commander in the Russian army at a time when the Russians were our enemies and still part of the Soviet Union .…
— Anthony Horowitz
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Burn, baby, burn,†she muttered in a hard, satisfied voice. I cleared my throat. “As much as I hate to interrupt the supreme satisfaction you’re…
— Jennifer Estep
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In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have capsized.…
— China Mieville
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My heart and my trust were in the process of collapsing. And that collapse created a vacuum in my chest.
— Jay Asher
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Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you’re able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can’t you use the…
— J D Salinger
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No matter how often I think I can't stand it anymore, I always do. There is no alternative. I don't fall, I don't foam at…
— Janice Galloway
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It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.
— Donald Miller
Who Wrote These Collapse Quotes
433 authors contributed a total of 501 Collapse Quotes, led by these top contributors: