Collapse Quotes

If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse.

Sexually awakened women, affirmed and recognized as such, would mean the complete collapse of the authoritarian ideology

When you live in a false society, that bases its wealth upon money, then that society itself will collapse eventually. Not because I say so, because it's not based on physical reference.

I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.

...the collapse of tsarism, while not improbably, was certainly not inevitable.

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

History shows that people who save and invest grown and prosper, and the others deteriorate and collapse.

When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.

Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.

If we went into stores only when we needed to buy something, and if once there we bought only what we needed, the economy would collapse, boom.

If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.

Old houses are full with memories and that's why they resist to collapse!

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)

[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.

I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse.

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

It's my nature to go around in high spirits most of the time and then to collapse.

We are no longer dealing with historical events, but with places of collapse.

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917.

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

I have severe osteoporosis. Your bones start to collapse.

We're still in the collapse that began after 2008. There's not a new collapse, there hasn't been a recovery.

It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.

As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.

I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.

Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.

The work of memory collapses time.

but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.

Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!

What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

... the daily world exists because we know how to hold its images; consequently, if one drops the attention needed to maintain those images, the world collapses

Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.

If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.

That's why you did it. You wanted your world to collapse around you. You wanted everything to get as dark as possible.

Everyone in my industry, the movie industry, is looking at the music industry and going, 'How do we avoid that collapse?' And I don't know if you can, to be quite honest!

When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.

The human organism has only so much energy at its disposal. If you divert a great deal of it into any one channel, you can expect the others to collapse or atrophy. If you squander your vital energies on your emotional life, as you have been doing, plan to be physically and mentally bankrupt, as it were.

I didn't understand that playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. No one can be any one thing all the time.

If I said that oil production would collapse I was wrong.

To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.

If we don't build our Spiritual Core our world is going to collapse.

In New York, one must collapse to be indolent.

The last thing to collapse is the surface.