Suzanne Collins Quotes

Bragg has been defeated at Chattanooga with great loss-abandoned Look Out Mountain and fell back we don't know where. The worst news of the war for us here. It looks as if we are to be exterminated. I now anticipate nothing better

In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.

They'll take everything, even your tears.

There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

It is useless to live on burned ruins.

All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.

Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

Brazil is living the last hours of Pompeii.

I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.

All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.

If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it.

I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.

In his anger William ordered that all crops and herds... and food of every kind should be brought together and burned to ashes, so that the whole region north of Humber might be stripped of all means of survival.

This whole country is a graveyard, and we are all constantly walking on the bones

War! War! War! I fear it will swallow up everything good and useful.

Oh my God. My God. It’s all over.

I am a millennial. Destruction is all I know. I no longer care what I wipe from the face of the Earth.

There was a time when I had nothing. I lost everything.

It’s the end. It’s the end of the civilization. We’re going down. No, it’s sure not too attractive. Lenticels. I just hope my kids don’t live to see the last days. The things burning and people living in cellars. Violet. The only thing worse than the thought it may all come tumbling down is the thought that we may go on like this forever.

...they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die.

Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.

It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.

And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.