Destroyed Quotes

“As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed.”
― Federico Garcia Lorca

“Once there was a boy,” said Jace.

Clary interrupted immediately. “A Shadowhunter boy?”

“Of course.” For a moment a bleak amusement colored his voice. Then it was gone. “When the boy was six years old, his father gave him a falcon to train. Falcons are raptors – killing birds, his father told him, the Shadowhunters of the sky.

“The falcon didn’t like the boy, and the boy didn’t like it, either. Its sharp beak made him nervous, and its bright eyes always seemed to be watching him. It would slash at him with beak and talons when he came near: For weeks his wrists and hands were always bleeding. He didn’t know it, but his father had selected a falcon that had lived in the wild for over a year, and thus was nearly impossible to tame. But the boy tried, because his father told him to make the falcon obedient, and he wanted to please his father.

“He stayed with the falcon constantly, keeping it awake by talking to it and even playing music to it, because a tired bird was meant to be easier to tame. He learned the equipment: the jesses, the hood, the brail, the leash that bound the bird to his wrist. He was meant to keep the falcon blind, but he couldn’t bring himself to do it – instead he tried to sit where the bird could see him as he touched and stroked its wings, willing it to trust him. Hee fed it from his hand, and at first it would not eat. Later it ate so savagely that its beak cut the skin of his palm. But the boy was glad, because it was progress, and because he wanted the bird to know him, even if the bird had to consume his blood to make that happen.

“He began to see that the falcon was beautiful, that its slim wings were built for the speed of flight, that it was strong and swift, fierce and gentle. When it dived to the ground, it moved like likght. When it learned to circle and come to his wrist, he neary shouted with delight Sometimes the bird would hope to his shoulder and put its beak in his hair. He knew his falcon loved him, and when he was certain it was not just tamed but perfectly tamed, he went to his father and showed him what he had done, expecting him to be proud.

“Instead his father took the bird, now tame and trusting, in his hands and broke its neck. ‘I told you to make it obedient,’ his father said, and dropped the falcon’s lifeless body to the ground. ‘Instead, you taught it to love you. Falcons are not meant to be loving pets: They are fierce and wild, savage and cruel. This bird was not tamed; it was broken.’

“Later, when his father left him, the boy cried over his pet, until eventually his father sent a servant to take the body of the bird away and bury it. The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he’d learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person...”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Babe, you've destroyed a car, burned down two buildings, stapled a guy's nuts, and you have sixteen stitches in your leg. Take a night off. Have a glass of wine, watch some television, and go to bed early."
-Ranger”
― Janet Evanovich, Lean Mean Thirteen

“I'm not depressed!'
she looked him up and down. 'You aren't? Why on earth not?”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“To have the chance of being loved we have to take a chance on being destroyed inside”
― Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star

“And it's his illusions about what
constitutes the real world which are inhibiting him...His reality, his reason, his society ... These are what must be destroyed”
― Luke Rhineheart

“What if I tell you
my world collapsed
seeing you walk away,
what if I tell you that
the sky tear apart
in your absence,
what if I tell you
my world gets destroyed
in the silence between us
- ruined”
― Jyoti Patel, ANAMIKA: BEYOND WORDS

“This man, this Casimir, which is the name of the young man in question - and it should have told me something, a dirty translation of it means "destroyer of peace" - was nothing to me, a single blip in the Morse code of my life, something too brief to read. He was a phoneme, a dangling modifier, a printer's orphan.”
― Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

“It is going to be a sad legacy of mankind that a group of toxic nerds destroyed society.”
― Steven Magee

“The situation is simple. If you want to keep our business, we'd like a different project manager. One who doesn't act like she thinks we're stupid, or insufferable. Someone who doesn't act like she hates working with us."
A red haze falls over my eyes. I've never been anything but respectful with these jackasses. I've been friendly and calm and accommodating. But this? This running to my bosses and tattling like spoiled children? Asking to have me removed because I told them that I want to build their stupid house so that it doesn't fall down? This is major bullshit, and my blood pressure soars. My carefully-fought-for bit of restraint that I've been struggling so hard to maintain shatters into a zillion pieces. And before I know it, words are flying out the front of my head.
"Mr. and Mrs. Manning, everyone here at MacMurphy wants you to be happy with your experience. And you should absolutely work with someone you connect with. I recommend Liam Murphy, he's your kind of ass-kissing suck-up guy. He will tell you what you want to hear, one hundred percent of the time. He will built your monstrous tasteless house and fill it with your cut-rate special-deal fell-off-the-truck fixtures that your buddies pawn off on you. He'll never tell you that you are building something with built-in lack of resale value due to your appallingly bad taste, and that you are doing it at a price nearly twice what the market in that neighborhood will ever bear. He can be the one to ignore your calls in two years when your screening room walls sprout black mold and your ghastly gold-flecked marble backsplash cracks in half as the kitchen settles six inches into your unstable leaky basement. As for your perception that I act like I think you are stupid and insufferable and I hate working with you? Let me assure you. That? Is no act.”
― Stacey Ballis, Recipe for Disaster

“You don't know the pain that I suffered from -
I was not aware of the destruction that destroyed my life”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Weeds are the things that choose to be persistent despite the reality that they’re going to get pulled.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Our humanity is global. You will find this shared humanity indomitably present in every circumstance of life. Therefore, if we dare to appeal to the commonality of our shared humanity as our primary and unrelenting endeavor, we would utterly transform what is being completely destroyed.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Building new homes in an area that was previously destroyed by hurricane Ian may be regarded as a form of insanity.”
― Steven Magee

“The Florida hurricane Ian disaster showed that small islands had the largest destroyed areas and loss of life.”
― Steven Magee

“Potent solar storms happen every century and we are overdue for one. All communications, electrical and electronic systems are expected to be destroyed at that time. Modern society will end for several years until it can recover from the extensive global damage.”
― Steven Magee

“During a request for police records regarding a police harassment incident, I discovered the police had not obtained the airport security camera video footage of the incident that was referenced in the police report. By the time I tried to obtain it, it had been destroyed!”
― Steven Magee

“The human race is destroyed by sickness.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Energy can’t be produced, or destroyed. It can be just transformed, from one form to another. The same rule applies to the soul. The energy that runs the universe, that energy is Brahma.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Smiling Brahma

“Volodymyr Zelensky appears to be losing the support of the Ukrainians as they are watching their people being displaced, their country being destroyed and their men being killed instead of negotiating a peace deal with the Russians.”
― Steven Magee

“Even though hurricane Dora passed 500 miles south of the Hawaiian islands, it devastated Maui island with historic wildfires that destroyed Lahaina!”
― Steven Magee

“The 911 emergency service was non-functional during the wildfire that destroyed the historic Lahaina town.”
― Steven Magee

“Historic Lahaina town was destroyed and widespread damage was in Kihei and Kula, caused by the August 2023 Maui wildfires.”
― Steven Magee

“Hundreds of homes and businesses were destroyed in the August 2023 Lahaina fire.”
― Steven Magee

“Historic Lahaina town stood for hundreds of years without issue and was destroyed by a huge fire in August 2023. What changed to cause the massive destruction?”
― Steven Magee

“I expect the Maui wildfires that destroyed Lahaina to be remembered as one of the biggest tourism disasters in history.”
― Steven Magee

“I would beg,' he murmured. 'For you, I would. You have fucking destroyed me, Oraya. Do you know that?”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night