#destruction

She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#family #dreams

It was time to bring out the world destructive weapons. It was now time to hit him where it would do the biggest damage, his pride. ↗

— Ottilie Weber

#inner-self #pride #revenge #strength #weapons

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#creativity #destroy #destruction #art

Life was taking its vengeance on me, and that vengeance consisted merely in coming back, nothing more. Every case of madness involves something coming back. People who are possessed are not possessed by something that just comes but instead by something that comes back. Sometimes life comes back. If in me everything crumbled before that power, it is not because that power was itself necessarily an overwhelming one: it in fact had only to come, since it had already become too full-flowing a force to be controlled or contained - when it appeared it overran everything. And then, like after a flood, there floated a wardrobe, a person, a loose window, three suitcases. And that seemed like Hell to me, that destruction of layers and layers of human archaeology. ↗

— Clarice Lispector

#hell #life #madness #repression #vengeance

to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love #love

The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love. ↗

— Cassia Leo

#self-destruction #love

Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#death-to-life #destruction #redemption #sanctification #transformation

Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#right

Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact; hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those that are subtle and below the radar. ↗

— Criss Jami

#consciousness #corruption #dangerous #impact #mass-media

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