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Everybody's damaged by something. By Emma Donoghue Damaged

Ruining people. I love the way the phrase rolls around on my tongue and inside my mouth. Ruining people is delicious. We're all hungry, empaths and sociopaths. We want to consume. By M.e. Thomas Ruining People Mouth Delicious Love

Look hard for ways to make little moves against destructiveness. By Andre Trocme Destructiveness Hard Make Moves

The destruction of something beautiful can appear so entertaining. By Thomas Sweeney Entertaining Destruction Beautiful

Destruction is a true sign of devotion. As I always tell my girlfriend when she threatens to kill me. 'You should kill me and it would tell me that you love me. By Billy Corgan Destruction Devotion True Sign Kill

Destruction is only another aspect of being. By Angela Carter Destruction Aspect

There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of destruction is the expression of an idea ... that what we call reality is not real at all. When I draw a head, for example, I immediately feel an urge to destroy it, to erase it, because the drawing only captures an outward appearance, and for me the vital issue is what lies behind the visual form of the head. By Antoni Tapies Destruction Idea Evocative Head Act

I can be very self-destructive, but quietly. By Sam Taylor-Wood Selfdestructive Quietly

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die. By Margaret J. Wheatley Destroying Life Function Season Die

Creativity is the antidote to destruction. By Trey Anastasio Creativity Destruction Antidote

What destruction have I been blessed by? By A.r. Ammons Destruction Blessed

sacralized, violence made sacred in the very act of being expelled; or still, human violence transformed from bad and destructive By Cesareo Bandera Sacralized Expelled Human Destructive Violence

Thus my task was destruction. By Gunter Grass Destruction Task

You don't have to destroy me. Do you? ... By Ernest Hemingway, Destroy

Nobody destroys people - people destroy themselves, and it's very, very sad. By John Catsimatidis Sad People Destroys Destroy

dangerous weapon By Okyere Bonna Dangerous Weapon

Destruction is ultimately self-destruction. By Anais Nin Destruction Selfdestruction Ultimately

Destruction is easy. But creating something that lasts is a challenge. By Christie Golden Destruction Easy Challenge Creating

Sometimes you have to destroy things, even people, in order to save them. (7) By Laura Lippman Things People Destroy Order Save

What ruins the Humans fellows?AngerAnxietyBoredoomCryingShouting By Deyth Banger Angeranxietyboredoomcryingshouting Humans Fellows Ruins

Destruction after all is a form of creation. By Graham Greene Destruction Creation Form

The urge to destroy is a creative urge. By Mikhail Bakunin Urge Destroy Creative

Disrupt or be disrupted. By Terence Mauri Disrupt Disrupted

[f]or most people, construction is tight, concentrated, bunchy, whereas vandalism offers release; you have to be quite an artist to give positive expression to abandon. By Lionel Shriver Concentrated Bunchy People Construction Tight

And change isn't destruction. It's just change. By Rachel Caine Destruction Change

To assess the damage is a dangerous act. By Cherrie Moraga Act Assess Damage Dangerous

The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought. By Eknath Easwaran Destructive Action Decision Thought Ancestor

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak. By George Best Gift Streak Born Great Destructive

The artist who makes himself accessible is self-destructive. By Howard Barker Selfdestructive Artist Makes Accessible

Want to know what's more destructive than a nuclear bomb? Words. By Kim Jong-Un Words Bomb Destructive Nuclear

To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create. By Anthony Burgess Create Devastate Easier Spectacular

What you fail to destroy will eventually destroy you. By Mike Murdock Destroy Fail Eventually

Spontaneous combustion IS a form of harm, Mr. D, Chiron put in. By Rick Riordan Chiron Spontaneous Harm Combustion Form

How is destruction beautiful?" He asked in a challenging tone."You may think that a broken egg is ugly and messy," she answered, "but the cake it goes into is beautiful and won't hold together without it.""Eggs don't get blown up. They get broken.""You've never seen me bake," she replied with a smirk. By Amy Neftzger Beautiful Destruction Tone Messy Answered

We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create. By Stephen King Create Succeeded Destroying

We can destroy only as creators By Friedrich Nietzsche Creators Destroy

The most destructive thing we can possibly do in life is to make another person doubt his worth and identity as a child of God. The very most productive thing we can do is to help ourselves and others realize that as children of God, our worth is infinite. By Toni Sorenson God Thing Worth Destructive Possibly

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction. By Mark Twain Disfavor Swift Destruction Character Begins

Sink, suffer, self-destruct Rise stronger, reconstruct By Lamb Of God Sink Suffer Reconstruct Rise Selfdestruct

The witless destroy what they don't understand. By Loretta Chase Understand Witless Destroy

I definitely have a real self-destructive streak. By Florence Welch Streak Real Selfdestructive

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge. By Mikhail Bakunin Urge Destroy Creative

Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Spirit Destructive Liberates Giving Mastery

Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point. By Chogyam Trungpa Involved Creative Difficult Destructive Relating

I grew up in a very responsible, social, Democratic community, and destruction was a bad word. But, in California, destruction is a rad word. The juxtaposition of the two is really what made me into who I am today, in my battles with how fun it is to be bad, and how wrong it is to be bad. By Rie Rasmussen Democratic Social Word Bad Responsible

Disturbing anything [situation] results in damage. To improve, you do not need to disturb anything that is natural and has turned bad. You need to make way out; you need to find a solution. By Dada Bhagwan Situation Disturbing Results Damage Improve

the ruin insufficiently ruined, By Stefan Zweig Ruined Ruin Insufficiently

I don't want to destroy anything. But I want to know what I can destroy. By Bill Callahan Destroy

A destructive thought process exists within all of us, and we are plagued to varying degrees by an internal dialogue that is harmful, restrictive, and at its ultimate extreme, self-destructive. By Lisa Firestone Restrictive Selfdestructive Harmful Extreme Destructive

Destruction is difficult. It is as difficult as creation. By Antonio Gramsci Destruction Difficult Creation

Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest. By Charles Caleb Colton Injuries Forgiven Men Occasions Haters

One of the most destructive forces in the world is love. For the following reason: The world is a conglomeration of objects, no, of events and the approachings of events towards objects, therefore of becoming stases static stagnant, of all that is unreal. You get in the world, you get your daily life your routine doesn't matter if you're rich poor legal illegal, you begin to believe what doesn't change is real, and love comes along and shows all these unchangeable for ever fixtures to be flimsy paper bits. Love can tear anything to shreds. By Kathy Acker World Love Objects Destructive Forces

I think the most destructive thing is fear: when people don't want to say what they think. By Amanda Harlech Fear Destructive Thing People

Destructive force of hatred is a virus By Sunday Adelaja Destructive Virus Force Hatred

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Writing is more about destroying than creating (195). By Karl Ove Knausgard Writing Creating Destroying

Some people like destroying for the hell of it; they love destroying beauty; they try to feel those people and then crack the egg. By Frederick Lenz Beauty Egg People Destroying Hell

Deconstruction is great for the intellect, but it hurts the heart terribly. By Eric Maisel Deconstruction Intellect Terribly Great Hurts

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him. By Akhenaton Trees Nature Cities Whirlwind Fury

They're damaged, after all. By Veronica Roth Damaged

I destroy because for me everything that proceeds from reason is untrustworthy. I believe only in the evidence of what stirs my marrow, not in the evidence of what addresses itself to my reason. I have found levels in the realm of the nerve. I now feel capable of evaluating the evidence. There is for me an evidence in the realm of pure flesh which has nothing to do with the evidence of reason. The eternal conflict between reason and the heart is decided in my very flesh, but in my flesh irrigated by nerves ... By Antonin Artaud Evidence Reason Untrustworthy Flesh Destroy

In the destructive element immerse. By Joseph Conrad Immerse Destructive Element

What nourishes me, destroys me By Christopher Marlowe Destroys Nourishes

But maybe he was destructive by nature since he messed up every girl he touched By Margaret Atwood Touched Destructive Nature Messed Girl

I dislike the thought of damage to you. By Lilith Saintcrow Dislike Thought Damage

A relationship wants to destroy itself and will work toward this end. When two lovers first meet, a destructive sequence begins. By Matthew Revert End Relationship Destroy Work Meet

Impious! forbear thus the first general hail. To disappoint, Increase and multiply, To shed thy blossoms thro' the desert air, And sow thy perish'd offspring in the winds. By John Armstrong Impious Increase Thy Forbear Hail

Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor. By L. Ron Hubbard Place True Creative Action Removed

One's pretty lively when ruined. By Thomas Hardy Ruined Pretty Lively

Anything that needlessly robs you of your time, energy, and other precious resources is destructive to you and your leadership. By John Manning Energy Time Leadership Needlessly Robs

Disruptors challenge assumptions. They shake the status quo. They are curious and creative. They adapt and improvise. They push the boundaries and shatter conventional wisdom. They'd rather forge new ground than blindly salute the flag of the past. By Josh Linkner Disruptors Assumptions Challenge Quo Shake

Perhaps the most devastating and damaging thing that can happen to someone is to fail to fulfill his potential. A kind of gnawing emptiness, longing, frustration, and displaced anger overwhelms people when this occurs. Whether the anger is turned inward on the self, or outward towards others, dreadful destruction results. By Edward T. Hall Potential Devastating Damaging Thing Happen

If you analyse anything, you destroy it. By Arthur Miller Analyse Destroy

We destroy only because we're spiritually sated. Exactly like children! By Leo Tolstoy Sated Destroy Spiritually Children

I love smashing stuff. By Norman Reedus Stuff Love Smashing

I'm going to destroy you, little man!" Sourcefield yelled after me. "I'll rip you apart like a piece of tissue paper in a hurricane!""Wow," I said, reaching an intersection and taking cover by an old mailbox."What?" Tia asked."That was a really good metaphor. By Brandon Sanderson Man Destroy Wow Sourcefield Hurricane

If you can't create, you destroy. By Anais Nin Create Destroy

You have to destroy something to make it beautiful. By Gerard Way Beautiful Destroy Make

Fragile things become undone at a frightening speed. By Deb Caletti Fragile Speed Things Undone Frightening

But it is easier to destroy than to create, and there are those whose nature it is to love destruction. By Lev Grossman Create Destruction Easier Destroy Nature

Defaced ruins of architecture and statuary, like the wrinkles of decrepitude of a once beautiful woman, only make one regret that one did not see them when they were enchanting. By Horace Walpole Defaced Statuary Woman Enchanting Ruins

To suffer destructive consequences is to obey laws in human nature By Sunday Adelaja Nature Suffer Destructive Consequences Obey

It is easy to destroy but hard to create. Remember that, when you want to destroy something." The By Pearl S. Buck Create Destroy Easy Hard Remember

My rage is not malicious; like a sparkOf fire by steel inforced out of a flintIt is no sooner kindled, but extinct. By William Goffe Malicious Kindled Extinct Rage Sparkof

We mistake our mistakes as being damaged. By Taylor Swift Damaged Mistake Mistakes

In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning. By Malcolm Gladwell Meaning Act Tearing Lose

I wished there had been obvious signs of destruction on all of us kids: bruises or burn marks, something that indicated how violent our house was, but words and neglect don't leave visible marks. And that confuses even the person who knows better. (169) By Monica Holloway Marks Kids Bruises Wished Obvious

Burns from dropped matches, Ms. Lane? Matches one might have dropped while flirting with a perniciousFae, Ms. Lane? Have you any idea the value of this rug?"I didn't think his nostrils could flare any wider. His eyes were black flame. "Pernicious? Good grief, is Englishyour second language? Third?" Only someone who'd learned English from a dictionary would use such a word."Fifth," he snarled. "Answer me. By Karen Marie Moning Lane Burns Dropped Matches Pernicious

Anything man can make, man can destroy. By Jonathan Anthony Burkett Man Make Destroy

to bring about the downfall of By Christine Feehan Bring Downfall

There is, in the act o destruction, a beauty which we try to deny, and a joy which we cannot. Children build to knock down, and though we may grow around it, that need runs in us, deeper than our blood. By Mark Lawrence Destruction Deny Act Beauty Joy

There are places from which you cannot return. There is damage that can be irreparable. By James Frey Return Places Irreparable Damage

Hurt people hurt people. By Anonymous Hurt People

Attempting to destroy something out of hate or ego often ensures that it will be preserved and disseminated forever. By Ryan Holiday Attempting Forever Destroy Hate Ego

stupid, overbarbering, possesive, fur ball By Quinn Loftis Stupid Overbarbering Possesive Fur Ball

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. By Margaret Mead Potentially Human Constructive Nature Aggressive

What fire does not destroy, it hardens By Oscar Wilde Destroy Hardens Fire

Destruction always comes from within. It By Matthew Kelly Destruction

If I destroy you, what business is it of yours? By Liu Cixin Destroy Business

DONNA: She doesn't like office equipment, so we let her come out here and tear up office equipment. For people who don't like TVs, they can break TVs. If you don't like cars, you can break cars. If you don't like living-room things, you can break living-room things. Do you have something that you don't like? KARL: Vandalism. So this doesn't really work for me, does it? By Karl Pilkington Equipment Donna Office Break Tvs