Crumbling quotes
42 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"While our world is shaking and crumbling, we need to realize that one thing will never change, and that is God. He is the same today as he was ten million years ago, and will be the same ten million years from today."
"I think the world is crumbling when I have a bad game."
"We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation."
"Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation."
"When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And as Chögyam Trungpa used to tell us, that’s cause for celebration."
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"An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions."
"The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present."
"It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life."
"Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin."
"The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are...so make up your own rules."
"I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group."
"Both could feel the relationship crumbling to pieces beneath the weight of everything that Gavin refused to say."
"Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily"
"I'm an insomniac lately. It's one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship]."
