Quotes about destructiveness

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

— Mikhail Bakunin

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

— Walter Benjamin

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

— Alfred Jarry

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

— Marquis De Sade

It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.

— Janet Fitch