Destructive Quotes

“When we are “time traveling”, we may trip over problems from the past which distort our memory. If we are weary of dealing with lost causes or lame ducks in our history, we have to make up our mind and give up destructive thinking patterns. At that juncture, time has come to go back to the future. ( “A glimpse of the future" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“We are like water, aren’t we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too.” And something else, I think to myself. Like water, we mostly follow the path of least resistance.”
― Wally Lamb, We Are Water

“There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can succeed in shedding light into these areas of prejudice and ignorance, for asVoltaireonce said: 'Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.”
― Martin Gardner

“Typical me--hurricane that leaves nothing but destruction.”
― Katie McGarry, Dare You To

“He also wanted to destroy something, everything, perhaps himself.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“To take the ‘easy way’ is to walk a path that doesn’t exist to the edge of a cliff that does.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Poets would tell you that love was electricity in your veins that could light a room. That it was a river in your soul to lift you up and carry you away, or a fire inside the hearth to keep you warm. Yet electricity could also fry, rivers could drown, and fires could burn; love could be destructive. Punishingly, fatally destructive.”
― Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters

“Why would you pour so much energy into a hater’s destructive opinion who doesn’t even pour energy into their own self-development?”
― Richie Norton

“Patience is where we realize that to rush something is to compromise it to its own destruction. Maturity is to realize that the most effective way to stop the destruction is by beginning to develop patience. And the first place that we need to do that is with ourselves.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“She was wildfire; I was wind”
― Wiss Auguste, Beneath The Veil Of Time: A poetry collection

“This is the lure of all things destructive, in that they have us equate what feels good as being good.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It’s easier to give a child a pill and pretend that everything is now fixed.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner

“The frustrating thing is to repeatedly tell people what the destructive consequences of their choices are going to be, only to eventually find these very people standing in the midst of the very destruction that was predicted screaming at the top of their lungs that everything is fine.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Alcoholism, as a disease that ravages the mind and body, often becomes intertwined with domestic violence, heightening its destructive impact.”
― Rove Monteux, What is Wrong with Society Today

“So, with the feeling of a man who will die in the next hour for lack of air, he felt his way toward his open, separate, and therefore cold bed.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Strangers come and violate you. Strangers come and cut your heart out. Strangers come and take your blood.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Too often ignorance is the preferred weapon of the self-destructive fool.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Ttttoxicccc!!!!”
― Steven Magee

“If solving a problem actually eliminates the very thing that gave us an identity, a problem cannot be solved without the next problem already having been created.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There are hands that are skillful and well trained to build, and yet there are those that prefer to destroy. It takes no creativity to criticize and destroy great ideas well thought and organized for a period of time. I choose to stay away from destructive critics, they are not helpful at all.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“The eye of hurricane Ian was thirty miles wide!”
― Steven Magee

“If the path to experiencing one's feelings is blocked either the prohibitions of" poisonous pedagogy "or by the needs of the parents, then these feelings will have to be lived out. This can occur either in a destructive form, as in Hitler's case, or in a self-destructive one, as in Christiane F.'s. Or, as in the case of most criminals who end up in prison, this living out can lead to the destruction both of the self and of others.”
― Alice Miller, For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

“Don’t be so foolish as to deny a destructive outcome because you’ve become convinced of the worthiness of an unworthy cause.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A rant is the product of someone attempting to defend the belief that a round peg is a square hole and a square hole is a round peg in order to defend the opinion that each fit the other and can be used interchangeably. But this requires that we explain that all of the damaged holes and broken pegs are neither.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In the eyes of most, I was winning at the life of partying, so I could see what most didn't see: it was empty. I kept thinking if a little feels good, more will feel better, but I was wrong. It was a lie. It was only once I’d attained everything this life could offer that I could see clearly what a lie it really was. The best this life had to offer was a slew of broken relationships, mangled trust, a compromised future, destructive habits, friends who used you, people who only wanted you for what you had to offer, and an empty hole that no matter how much you threw down it, it hungered all the more.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“There's madness in the eyes and looks of people, tragedy is at stake whatever you do people will get mad at you”
― Ben Jr Grey

“Every night, the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her, wide-eyed, toward the morning. There had been no night in the last two years that Mildred had not swum that sea, had not gladly gone down in it for the third time.”
― Ray Bradbury

“When an awakened woman expresses her dark feminine energy it's not all love and light, it is a raw, unapologetic, and destructive force meant to shake and crumble every untruth there is.”
― Lorin Krenn

“The teacher should be constructive not destructive.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“...more times than not, people really didn't want the answers they sought, and the truth of what was to come was often far more destructive than a lie.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath