Maurice Blanchot Quotes

We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

One sound blow will serve to undo us all.

Haiti looks like a bomb hit it.

In the same way that a tornado rips the roof off a double-wide trailer, leaving the occupants dazed and staring at the clouds from the splinters of what used to be their living room, it was over.

I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.

I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.]

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

The first light of day today revealed what we had feared. The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming.

It is useless to live on burned ruins.

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

Clearly, I see it. I was just about to leave when I found her kneeling there. A mountain range of rubble was written, designed, erected around her. She was clucthing at a book.

I'm planning a catastrophe.

Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.

The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles a hour wind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and ran forward until he met the quarters; uprooted them like grass and rushed on after his supposed-to-be conquerors, rolling the dikes, rolling the houses, rolling the people in the houses along with other timbers. The sea was walking the earth with a heavy heel.

So, you wrecked Alcatraz Island, made Mount St. Helens explode, and displaced half a million people, but at least you're safe." "Yep, that pretty much covers it.

I watched the mighty skyline fall

As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.

One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

Being here, it is just impossible to imagine what that was like, when the tsunami hit.

I guess I look like a rock quarry that someone has dynamited.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

War is the easiest photography in the business. Just get close, be lucky, know how your camera works. There are subjects everywhere. Everyplace you go, there is something to photograph in a war, like being in the middle of a hurricane or a train crash or an earthquake. You can't miss it.

What's taken God 200 years to create was wiped out in a couple of days by what was apparently an arsonist, And it just shows you what a sick world we live in nowadays.