Destroys Quotes
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Art destroys silence.
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The spiteful tongue strikes a deadly blow at charity in all who hear him speak and, so far as it can, destroys root and branch, not only in the immediate hearers but also in all others to whom the slander, flying from lip to lip, is afterwards repeated.
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Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.
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Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?
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They will love me for that which destroys me.
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The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.
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She is never more herself than when she destroys herself.
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A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.
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Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity, bringing forward those parts of an object which are always most distant from the eye - namely its outlines.
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The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.
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One corpse in a well destroys the viability of the well.
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Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
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No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.
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The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.
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By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up.
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Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.
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Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father's active goodness and unrestricted love.
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Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
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Blessed the one who meditates on death each day and destroys the base passions lurking in the vines of the heart, for he will be consoled in the moment of separation.
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Every revolution destroys the average middle first and most savagely.
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Like those imperceptible insects which, having once penetrated the root of a tree devour it in a single night, suspicion, when it invades our minds, soon develops itself and destroys our firmest beliefs.
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An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.
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In this world that destroys me, the only thing that I can do is to live my weakness. That weakness is my only strength.
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It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.
