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Destroying Quotes (page 12)

Rumi quote: "Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your..."
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. Rumi
George Bernard Shaw quote: "Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the..."
Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error. George Bernard Shaw
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a..."
We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives. Vladimir Nabokov
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they..."
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. Friedrich Nietzsche
On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man Jules Verne
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create."
We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create. Chuck Palahniuk
Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves. C. S. Lewis
Pablo Picasso quote: "The urge to destroy is also a creative urge."
The urge to destroy is also a creative urge. Pablo Picasso
Preserve me from such cordiality! It is like handling briar-roses and may-blossoms - bright enough to the eye, and outwardly soft to the touch, but you know there are thorns beneath, and every now and then you feel them too; and perhaps resent the injury by crushing them in till you have destroyed their power, though somewhat to the detriment of your own fingers. Anne Bronte
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself."(Interview, New York Post Magazine, September 14, 1958) Bernard Malamud
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 itself now and then? And name me a person who in a bad mood will be decent enough to hide it, to bear it alone, without destroying the joy around him. Is it not rather an inner dissatisfaction with our own unworthiness, a dislike of ourselves that is always associated with envy aggravated by foolish conceit? We see people happy and not made happy by us, and that is... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
According to the laws of nature, one should destroy the other, but in love neither good nor evil, there is neither construction nor destruction, there is merely movement. And love changes the laws of nature. Paulo Coelho
Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn. Eric Ambler
She had grasped the inner meaning of the Party's sexual puritanism. It was not merely that the sex instinct created a world of its own which was outside the Party's control and which therefore had to be destroyed if possible. What was most important was that sexual privation induced hysteria, which was desirable because it could be transformed into war fever and leader worship. George Orwell
Stephen King quote: "Speech destroys the functions of love."
Speech destroys the functions of love. Stephen King

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