Wreckage Quotations

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.

If it's wrong to wreck the planet, it's wrong to profit from the wreckage.

A defensive investor can always prosper by looking patiently and calmly through the wreckage of a bear market.

His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.

Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.

I think my head's a minefield strewn with triggers, and maybe if I survive each explosion, what emerges from the wreckage will be me, really, truly me.

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times.

The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.

This was not the old Chichikov. This was some wreckage of the old Chichikov. The inner state of his soul might be compared to a demolished building, which has been demolished so that from it a new one could be built; but the new one has not been started yet, because the infinitive plan has not yet come from the architect and the workers are left in perplexity.

I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.

We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.

If you can create even the illusion of high profitability for a few years, then when the thing collapses you can walk out of the wreckage a very rich man.

The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.

With vision only, you get no follow-through. With enforcers only, the vision is realized but leaves a lot of wreckage.

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

This universe is the wreckage of the infinite on the shores of the finite.