#destruction

I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#heathcliff #destruction

Mutually assured destruction. ↗

— Holly Black

#secret #destruction

Waddya want me to do? through my sling shot at him? ↗

— Shirley Hughes

#destruction

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#self-destruction #self-mutilation #truth #wisdom #destruction

I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#destruction

Be the flame, not the moth. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#self-destruction #destruction

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#double-standards #envy #hate #indignation #morality

Sometimes the best offense was avoiding self-destruction. ↗

— Brandon Mull

#rebellion

If you’re listening to this, congratulations! You survived Doomsday. I’d like to apologize straightaway for any inconvenience the end of the world may have caused you. The earthquakes, rebellions, riots,tornadoes, floods, tsunamis, and of course the giant snake who swallowed the sun—I’m afraid most of that was our fault. Carter and I decided we should at least explain how it happened. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#destruction #earthquakes #floods #funny #funny-and-random

Iran is actively pursuing the development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles. ↗

— Howard Berman

#ballistic #destruction #development #iran #mass