Black Quote by Cheryl Strayed

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get…

— Rufus Wainwright

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.

— Wendell Berry

Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death.

— J. A. Baker

It is a ruined-world, a nonsense-place.

— Lauren Oliver

The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat slothfully by…

— Theodore Roosevelt

If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we…

— Franz Kafka

There is a place on earth that is a vast desolate wilderness, a place populated by shadows of the dead in their multitudes, a…

— Giuliana Tedeschi Brunelli

The Wretched of the Earth is an explosion.

— Emile Capouya

The graveyard is the richest place on the surface of the earth because there you will see the books that were not published, ideas…

— Myles Munroe

There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched…

— T. S. Eliot

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs…

— Walter Benjamin

Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.

— Jan Struther