It seems when Opportunity knocks, Fate shows up to open the door.
Anthony LiccioneTags: fate death destruction door result downfall calamitous opportunity-knocks unfavourable-outcome
When you keep hurting someone, you do one of three things. Either you fill them up with hate, and they destroy everything around them. Or you fill them up with sadness, and they destroy themselves. Or you fill them up with justice, and they try to destroy everything that's bad and cruel in this world. Me, I was the first kind of person.
Nick LakeTags: hate destruction
My son used to believe that he could look at a plane in flight and make it explode in midair by simply thinking it. He believed, at thirteen, that the border between himself and the world was thin and porous enough to allow him to affect the course of events. An aircraft in flight was a provocation too strong to ignore. He’d watch a plane gaining altitude after taking off from Sky Harbor and he’d sense an element of catastrophe tacit in the very fact of a flying object filled with people. He was sensitive to the most incidental stimulus and he thought he could feel the object itself yearning to burst. All he had to do was wish the fiery image into his mind and the plane would ignite and shatter. His sister used to tell him, Go ahead, blow it up, let me see you take that plane out of the sky with all two hundred people aboard, and it scared him to hear someone talk this way and it scared her too because she wasn’t completely convinced he could not do it. It’s the special skill of an adolescent to imagine the end of the world as an adjunct to his own discontent. But Jeff got older and lost interest and conviction. He lost the paradoxical gift for being separate and alone and yet intimately connected, mind-wired to distant things.
Don DeLilloTags: paradox power belief connection destruction
Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson.
Dan WellsTags: humanity destruction lessons
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force.
Rudolf RockerTags: power dogma violence destruction force laws straightjackets
I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6,000 years as it brought by the living in a single day.
Alexandre DumasTags: harm mankind destruction ghosts
Lady Moon rose an' gazed o'er my busted'n'beautsome Valleys with silv'ry'n'sorryin' eyes, an' the dingos mourned for the died uns.
David MitchellTags: death moon mourning destruction aftermath description personification
If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
Carl SaganTags: inspirational truth destruction
We love the things that destroy us, because in that destruction we truly feel alive.
Robert PobiTags: life love addiction destruction
If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its destruction.
Lev ShestovTags: destruction darwin dostoevsky
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