Destructive Cycle Quotes

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like all narcotics, on the road to self-destruction. It does not affirm but places upon us greater and greater demands. It destroys the outside world until it is hard to live outside war's grip. It takes a higher and higher dose to achieve any thrill. Finally, one ingests war only to remain numb.

Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist.

Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.

Often does hatred hurt itself.

Madness breeds madness.

It is the ultimate end of absurdity for the arms race to go on.

You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only the nuggets of hatred remain and no one can even remember, or imagine, why the war was organized in the first place.

Hate eats the hater the way ogres eat little boys.

The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.

What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again.

We were going to kill ourselves in trying to kill each other.

Who is fatal to others is so to himself.

If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.

It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.

Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.

For me, addiction comes down to basically where a pattern of behaviour has developed and that pattern of behaviour is becoming a very damaging cycle. It's sort of damaging your relationships, friends or lovers, it's damaging your own personal health and it's damaging for you and your workplace.

there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy

Fire destroys that which feeds it.

Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.

Hatred can eat at you until there's nothing left, until you become the thing you hate.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

The thing about war is that once it's triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.