Crime Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Where the apple reddens never pry - lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.

— Robert Browning

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

— John Steinbeck

“There is no decay. Each human soul is the first created inhabitant of its own Eden. We dwell in an old moss-covered mansion, and…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition.”

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward.…

— Peter Eisenman

“she is never more herself than when she destroys herself.”

— Christina Stead

“Time destroys everything we do, whatever it is.”

— Thomas Bernhard

“War is no joke, it seems. It destroys, kills, burns, separates, brings unhappiness.”

— Zlata Filipović

“That’s the thing about the End of the World. It doesn’t send out Save the Date cards before it destroys everything.”

— Jessica Meyers

Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.

— Richard Steele