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    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
    tags: grief, grief-inspirational, heartbreak, life, life-lessons, love, love-hurts, love-story, price-of-love, prices, romance, sad, sad-but-true, sadness, true-love
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    Carol Rifka Brunt
    “Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.”
    ― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home
    tags: impossible, love, love-hurts, unrequited-love
    1285 likes

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  • #3
    “What do you do when the one person you want comfort from the most is the one who caused your pain? How can I want so desperately for him to wrap me up in his arms but also want so much for him to leave me alone.”
    ― Amanda Grace, But I Love Him
    tags: love-hurts, true
    424 likes

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  • #4
    Ann Brashares
    “I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.”
    ― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory
    tags: love-hurts, waiting
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  • #5
    “The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.”
    ― Carroll Bryant
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  • #6
    “To make one person the center of your world is bound to end in disaster. There are too many factors outside your control.”
    ― Alexandra Adornetto, Halo
    tags: halo, love, love-hurts
    204 likes

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  • #7
    Shannon A. Thompson
    “I wanted to punch him and understand him at the same time.”
    ― Shannon A. Thompson, Take Me Tomorrow
    tags: dystopian, dystopian-fiction, dystopian-future, first-love, frustration, love, love-humor, love-hurts, love-punch, love-story, lovers, lovers-sadness, punch, sad-love, teen-love, torture, tragic-love, understand, unrequited-love, violence, young-love, young-lovers
    191 likes

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  • #8
    Toba Beta
    “Love hurts when it changes us.”
    ― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
    tags: change-hurts, love-hurts
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  • #9
    Maxine Hong Kingston
    “In a time of destruction, create something.”
    ― Maxine Hong Kingston
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    Criss Jami
    “Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.”
    ― Criss Jami
    tags: agenda, bad-influence, compulsive-liar, controlling, craftsman, deception, destruction, dishonest, influence, lies, manipulation, media, mislead, slander, speak, true
    1698 likes

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  • #11
    Scott Westerfeld
    “You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.”
    ― Scott Westerfeld, Extras
    tags: destruction, freedom
    1289 likes

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  • #12
    Markus Zusak
    “Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: death, destruction, failure
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  • #13
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Markus Zusak
    “I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: destruction, humanity
    995 likes

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    Mikhail Bakunin
    “The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.”
    ― Mikhail Bakunin
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  • #16
    Criss Jami
    “Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.”
    ― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
    tags: competition, deserving, destruction, dictatorship, entitlement, man, nature, overpowering, power, pride, selfishness, stealing, thieves, tyranny
    642 likes

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  • #17
    “Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you.”
    ― Israelmore Ayivor
    tags: acids, bad, corrosive, destroyers, destruction, detractors, enemies, enemy, evil, evil-words, food-for-thought, gossips, haters, hatred, hurt, insults, israelmore-ayivor, kill, negative, negative-attitude, negative-people, skin, toxic-people, trouble
    529 likes

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  • #18
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
    tags: creation, destruction, flawed, human-character, human-nature
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    Anaïs Nin
    “I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon. ”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: critisism, destruction, worship
    299 likes

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  • #20
    Neil Gaiman
    “I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
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  • #21
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    “Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
    ― J. Robert Oppenheimer
    tags: bhagavad-gita, death, destruction, nuclear-weapons
    357 likes

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  • #22
    Ray Bradbury
    “Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: chaos, construction, creative-process, destruction, writers, writing
    336 likes

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  • #23
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk , Fight Club
    tags: age, destruction
    97 likes

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  • #24
    Leah Raeder
    “Falling for someone is like pulling a loose thread. It happens stitch by stitch. You feel whole most of the time even while the seams pop, the knots loosen, everything that holds you together coming undone. It feels incredible, this opening of yourself to the world. Not like the unraveling it is. Only afterward do you glance down at the tangle of string around your feet that used to be a person who was whole and self-contained and realize that love is not a thing that we create. It's an undoing.”
    ― Leah Raeder, Black Iris
    tags: love, self-destruction, undoing
    120 likes

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  • #25
    Sade Andria Zabala
    “I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself, did I know who I really was.”
    ― Sade Andria Zabala
    tags: self-destruction, understanding-oneself, understanding-yourself
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  • #26
    Criss Jami
    “The emphasis and the reason for a pure humility is to result in love for others; not always necessarily the belittlement of self. When there is pride and self-righteousness and being pretentiously too far above, generally, one has a difficult time reaching the compassionate side of love for others, the side that understands (or at least attempts to understand): 'I am aware that I am not so far from falling in the same way.' Humility seeks to understand, and sometimes even relate; and in result, the love lovingly, properly, effectively wills the removal of the destructive sins of another as from oneself.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: caring, caring-for-others, compassion, constructive-criticism, discernment, humility, hypocrisy, judgmental, love, pride, purity, self-destruction, self-righteousness, sin
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  • #27
    “Freeways flickering; cell phones chiming a tune
    We're riding to Utopia; road map says we'll be arriving soon
    Captains of the old order clinging to the reins
    Assuring us these aches inside are only growing pains
    But it's a long road out of Eden
    (...)
    Behold the bitten apple, the power of the tools
    But all the knowledge in the world is of no use to fools
    And it's a long road out of Eden”
    ― The Eagles, Long Road Out of Eden
    tags: civilization, eden, materialism, self-destruction, utopia
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