It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.
Goodness that preaches undoes itself.
Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be. .
In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.
It's a truism that denials never quite catch up with charges. Honest journalists who may have mistakenly printed false information know that the most prominent retraction never quite undoes the damage done by the original publication.
Each of us has a creation tale - how we came into this world. And I'll add this: each of us has an uncreation tale - how our lives came apart. That which undoes us. Sooner or later, it will claim you. Mark you. More than your creation.
Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.
Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.
There is only one thing I fear now-love. For I have seen it and I have felt it and I know that it is love, not death, that undoes us.
