Destroying Quotes

568 Destroying quotes by 459 unique authors

Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure. — Tom Hodgkinson
Why do you insist upon destroying yourself? — Charles Bukowski
He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he sensed that he… — Paul Auster
However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by… — George Washington
You didn't want to die. Most mortals don't, even if they find themselves in as desolate and soul-destroying a spot as you. Almost all of… — Darren Shan
I have won important things for myself, but I'm going to destroy them, because I tell myself they have lost their meaning. I know that… — Paulo Coelho
One way or another, I have wound up destroying what I've loved. I've seen my dreams fall apart just when I seemed to achieve them.… — Paulo Coelho
As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock… — Libba Bray
Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our… — E. O. Wilson
Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear,… — Giacomo Casanova
...it honestly didn't matter how we humans got to be the way we are, whether evolution or special creation was responsible. What mattered and mattered… — Jane Goodall
For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying — Niccolo Machiavelli
Some molecules - ammonia, carbon dioxide, water - show up everywhere in the universe, whether life is present or not. But others pop up especially… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The silence that falls between them is a comfortable one. He longs to reach over and touch her, but he resists, fearful of destroying the… — Erin Morgenstern
My decision not to eat animals anymore was paramount to my growth as a spiritual person. It made me aware of greed and made me… — Portia de Rossi
If a person cast no shadow at all, he couldn't be alive. His existence became meaningless.Execrating Apophis by destroying his shadow would cut his connection… — Rick Riordan
But if I could do anything? Maybe you would want to be able to save the world, the Voice said. Did you ever think of… — James Patterson
He wanted that again, that feeling of standing with her against all odds and succeeding. He wanted it so bad, he was going to risk… — Kim Harrison
Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any heart may permit… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You really do hate me, don't you? I mean, destroying someone's ice-cream cone? That's vicious." Her cheeks reddened. "I didn't see you there. Honestly." She… — Amanda Hocking
Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so… — Philip Pullman
Percy looked at Coach Hedge and Frank. “A trap?” “Probably,” Frank said. “She’s not mortal,” Hedge said, sniffing the air. “Probably some kind of goat-eating,… — Rick Riordan
It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance. — Erin Morgenstern
I suppose I’m the one responsible for destroying myself. — Natsuo Kirino
We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create. — Stephen King

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