[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.
Being a caretaker is, and never will be, an easy job; in fact, it is that hardest job in the world and many times a thankless job. You have to be the pillar of strength even when you feel like you are crumbling to pieces inside.
It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.
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.
I think the world is crumbling when I have a bad game.
The information walls are completely crumbling.
We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it's entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes.
Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do - they pay surveyors to take a look.
None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how they stare at me, wondering, all wondering, at my secret wellspring of wisdom. . . ' Let's kill him,' Crokus muttered, 'if only to put him out of our misery.
Eternity! How know we but we stand On the precipitous and crumbling verge Of Time e'en now, Eternity below?
An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.
Death is the end of all life in the individual or the thing; if physical, the crumbling of the body into dust from whence it came. He who lives not uprightly, dies completely in the crumbling of the physical body, but he who lives well, transforms himself from that which is mortal, to immortal.
As for myself, I'm attracted to venture into places with peeling paint, and areas that are crumbling a little bit. It makes sense because we've already established the photography focusing on architecture, even if it looks incorrect, there's something appealing about entering that.
Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin.
The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.
…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky
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.
Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.