Top 80 Creation Destruction Quotes
#1. We are reflections of one another, therefore I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all projections of the universal principles of creation/destruction polarities of the same infinite consciousness that we call God.
David Icke
#2. There's a thin line between destruction and creation.
Oliver Jeffers
#3. Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
Marquis De Sade
#5. The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.
Norman O. Brown
#6. Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
Marty Rubin
#7. When you craft something you create an eternity. When you tear down you hurt and you destroy, but anger doesn't last forever and soon your destruction is but dust under the muse of another's creation.
Matthew Williamson
#8. Modern physics had shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and in the birth and death of living creatures, but is also the very essence of inorganic matter. For modern physicists ... Shiva's dance is the dance of subatomic matter.
Fritjof Capra
#9. Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#10. Others devoted to life will surely find that between the creation of life and the destruction of the destroyers there is no difference but a necessary, indispensable connection; that nothing good can be created that does not of its very nature push forward the destruction of the destroyers.
Ayi Kwei Armah
#11. There are times when creation can be achieved only through destruction. The urge to destroy is then a creative urge.
Bakunin
#12. Creation, like destruction, always seems to get a little out of hand; otherwise it could hardly be called creative.
Babs Deal
#13. The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point of continuous alternation of self-creation and self-destruction. If it is only instinct, then it is childlike, childish, or silly; if it is only intention, it becomes affectation.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#15. I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.
Leo Tolstoy
#16. The Void is a living void ... pulsating in endless rhythms of creation and destruction. The great Void does not exist as Void, it embraces all Being/non-Being
Frederick Franck
#17. No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back.
Robert Heller
#18. This health-care plan is all about the destruction of the creation of wealth in America and the socialization of this country, and it won't work - never has anywhere else - and we're going to go to the mat here to see to it that they don't succeed.
Rush Limbaugh
#19. Qi constantly ebbs and flows through the world in cycles of creation and destruction so that an energetic equilibrium will prevail.
Ronald H Davis
#20. 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.
L. Ron Hubbard
#21. There is neither creation nor destruction,
neither destiny nor free will, neither
path nor achievement.
This is the final truth.
Ramana Maharshi
#22. Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#24. Analysis is the art of creation through destruction.
P.S. Baber
#25. The paths people choose in life can lead to the creation or destruction of people, places, things, and relationships. The future is uncertain, but what is certain is there will be change.
Stephen Black
#26. All of the important acts of creation and destruction involve the issuance of words and the application of signature.
Bryant McGill
#27. You can't tell from looking if it's being built up or torn down, Dunn thought. Can't tell creation from destruction at a distance.
Scott Cawthon
#28. Sometimes great change happens only after the worst change occurs. Negativity can be the start point of positivity. Destruction can lead to creation. It's not hopeless; darkness is the birthplace of hope.
Emily Maroutian
#29. It is in our nature to destroy what we create. (Dr. Paul Kramer)
Alex Scarrow
#30. The purpose of desire. It is for creation and destruction. It is the beginning and the end of a journey. Without desire, there is nothing.
Amish Tripathi
#31. Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#32. Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
Kurt Vonnegut
#33. Be still, Be joyous, Celebrate creation, preservation and destruction; For these are the seasons of your life: Of your knowing and being.
Frederick Lenz
#35. Can there be any act of creation that does not first destroy? Villages fall. Cities rise. Humans die. Life springs from the soil wherein they lie. Is not any act of destruction, should Time enough pass, an act of creation?
Karen Marie Moning
#36. Microsoft had made it clear that the only way to preserve your station in Valley life was to create a monopoly. If you created a monopoly, you were at least partially exempt from the ordinary rapid cycle of creation and destruction.
Michael Lewis
#37. The creation of rule is more creative than the destruction of them. Creation demands a higher level of reasoning and draws connections between cause and effect. The best rules are never stable or permanent, but evolve naturally according to context or need.
Andrea Zittel
#38. In my worst moments, I try to think about loving instead of hating. Creation versus destruction, know what I'm sayin'?
Julia Stiles
#39. He found the original sheet of paper and scored the couplet out with thick lines. And in doing this there was a sense of achievement, of time not wasted, as though the destruction of much labour were in some way an act of creation.
George Orwell
#40. I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
Anthony Kiedis
#41. My art is an act of creation and destruction, with all the sorrow and joy these engender as well as all the shadow and light these contain.
Kathryn V. White
#42. The literate mind has sown the seeds of its own destruction through the creation of media that render irrelevant those "traditional skills" on which literacy rests.
Neil Postman
#43. Destruction is creation. Become as a little child. Language as space, a kind of mathematical notation, geometric locations in the lab of memory. Reading. Maps. Codes, substitutions, the secret names of things. The glorious inrush of a word. The joy of chatter. Every color's wavelength, by number.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#44. Good and evil are (only) labels that man - through religion and philosophy - created to explain and judge the Universe's natural cycle of creation and destruction. Creation was deemed good and destruction was deemed evil.
Russell Anthony Gibbs
#45. Creation and destruction in equal parts, neither more powerful than the other.
C.J. LaPolla
#46. Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you
and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#47. If the pain and destruction wasn't a kind of creation, too: the violence of birth, that kind of idea.
Jeani Rector
#48. The things that hurt us are often the things that help us, and the whole dichotomy between creation and destruction is totally false, I think. We live in a universe that seems committed to making and unmaking all that is possible, you know?
John Green
#49. we are affirming our trust that creation means well within us all, and that whatever painful growth and change may lie ahead, it is leading us to Life, not destruction
Margaret Silf
#50. The very word virus began as a contradiction. We inherited the word from the Roman Empire, where it meant, at once, the venom of a snake or the semen of a man. Creation and destruction in one word.
Carl Zimmer
#51. But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.
Albert Camus
#52. Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.
David Mitchell
#53. Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Pablo Picasso
#54. It is then possible to say that rebellion, when it develops into destruction, is illogical. Claiming the unity
of the human condition, it is a force of life, not of death. Its most profound logic is not the logic of
destruction; it is the logic of creation.
Albert Camus
#55. Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.
Amish Tripathi
#56. The Yiddish mentality is not haughty. It does not take victory for granted. It does not demand and command but it muddles through, sneaks by, smuggles itself amidst the powers of destruction, knowing somewhere that God's plan for Creation is still at the very beginning.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#57. The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.
Anais Nin
#58. Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.
Edith Hamilton
#59. Jainism has two ways of looking at things: one called Dravyarthekaraya and the other Paryayartheka Noya. According to the Dravyarthekaraya view the universe is without beginning and end, but according to the Paryayartheka view we have creation and destruction at every moment.
Virchand Gandhi
#60. All powers have two sides, the power to create and the power to destroy. We must recognize them both, but invest our gifts on the side of creation.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
#61. The obliterated place is equal parts destruction and creation. The obliterated place is pitch black and bright light. It is water and parched earth. It is mud and it is manna. The real work of deep grief is making a home there.
Cheryl Strayed
#62. Destruction is the work of an afternoon. Creation is the work of a lifetime.
Kamahl
#64. If you destroy the foundations of anything, the structure will collapse. If you want to destroy any building, you are guaranteed early success if you destroy the foundations.
Ken Ham
#65. Creatives Creed: Destruction is creation. Creation is destruction.
Richie Norton
#66. The terrorist lives for terror, not for the change he tells himself he wants. He masks his desire to kill and destroy behind the curtain of a cause. It is destruction he wants, not creation.
Louis L'Amour
#67. Every moment there is creation, every moment destruction. There is no absolute creation, no absolute destruction. Both are movement, and that is eternal.
Ramana Maharshi
#68. The tightrope walk was an act of creation that seemed to stand in direct defiance to the act of destruction twenty-seven years later.
About Let the Great World Spin
Colum McCann
#69. I don't think ultimately God punishes. I think we bring about our own destruction or our own creation.
Madonna Ciccone
#70. There is no end or purpose to existence, only ceaseless creation and destruction, governed entirely by chance.
Stephan Greenblatt
#71. We're not put on earth to one day leave it behind. This world is our home. The second coming will not bring the destruction of this earth, but the fulfillment of creation. "Behold! I am making all things new."
S.D. Morrison
#72. All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.
Thomas Carlyle
#73. Sometimes luck was just another word for creation, which was as relentless as destruction.
Anita Diamant
#74. Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone.
Marion Woodman
#75. Respect all living things, and never take what you cannot give back, or destroy what you cannot create.
Bryant McGill
#76. I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest creature that lives. The perogative of destruction belongs solely to the Creator of all that lives.
Mahatma Gandhi
#77. Destruction is difficult. It is as difficult as creation.
Antonio Gramsci
#78. No new creation or destruction of matter is within the reach of chemical agency. We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet into the solar system, or to annihilate one already in existence, as to create or destroy a particle of hydrogen.
John Dalton
#79. your biggest enemy is yourself, your creation of barriers, your destruction of your freedom." They
Dean F. Wilson
#80. The overwhelming pressure of mechanization evident in the newspaper and the magazine, has led to the creation of vast monopolies of communication. Their entrenched positions involve a continuous, systematic, ruthless destruction of elements of permanence essential to cultural activity.
Harold Innis
