Destroys

Famous quotes containing the word destroys:

    The full moon
    cannot gain
    a likeness to your face,
    so god destroys it
    time and again,
    as if to create it
    by some other means.
    Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

    Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one’s equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.
    Georges, French novelist, critic. L’AbbĂ© C, pt. 2, ch. 17 (1950)