Collapsing Quotes

“Once our imagination starts collapsing and the fragrant blossoms of our inspiration are wilting, petal after petal, our awareness may shake to its foundations, but nothing might deter us if we find the strength to rediscover the path back to the undifferentiated groundedness of our being and the essence of our roots.
("One drink after work.")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“It is not about our world collapsing. Rather, it’s about another human being holding our hand in the collapse. For then the carnage is no longer about the loss, but about what both of these hands are going to build from it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice.”
― George Saunders, Liberation Day

“I'm fine,' Oak says, sliding off the horse and immediately collapsing onto the asphalt.

'Fine?' the knight echoes, eyebrows raised.

'I couldn't say it if it wasn't true,' says the prince, and manages to stagger to his feet. He leans heavily on a nearby car.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“The collapsing of an empire. This changing word moves inexorably on. Thoughts bubble and the stiller the mind the more palpable the dazzling torrent of life becomes.”
― Stephen Batchelor, Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening

“The small launch bay was littered with debris. A powerful breeze tore at his black silk shirt as Kilroy made his way across it to the waiting shuttle, evoking a feeling like the fingers of fate were caressing his body. “The Hammer” stepped over the body of one of his fallen crew without a trace of care or concern. The air was rushing past him, like a wind, out into space through the wounds in the side of his ship. Fatigued and desperate, the Hammer was running out of options. His ship was a mess, holed in a dozen places, the life support systems failing. Weakened hull sections were collapsing in pressure bursts. The vibrations that shook the deck beneath him now were not from the engines that once drove her forward, but now from the explosions down below, tearing her apart.”
― Christina Engela, Dead Beckoning

“I am not sure what the next pandemic is going to be, but so many are already underway. Mental Illness in the kids, Long COVID in the adults, unusual illnesses in the population, global food production system collapsing, and so on.”
― Steven Magee

“The suffocating anguish retracted, collapsing into itself like a matchstick house in a windstorm.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash