Markus Zusak Quotes

I watched the mighty skyline fall

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

I guess I look like a rock quarry that someone has dynamited.

One sound blow will serve to undo us all.

I have always been interested in the concept of ruin.

We have become the charnel house of the Western World.

For the leaders of this people cause [them] to err; and [they that are] led of them [are] destroyed.

It’s the end. It’s the end of the civilization. We’re going down. No, it’s sure not too attractive. Lenticels. I just hope my kids don’t live to see the last days. The things burning and people living in cellars. Violet. The only thing worse than the thought it may all come tumbling down is the thought that we may go on like this forever.

I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.

ahhh the beauty of annihilation. There's nothing like it.

What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance.

destruction is ultimately self-destruction.

The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.

In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.

That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin.

Everything is still falling apart.

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

All the higher life forms scythed away, just like that. [ . . . ] Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.

Bowman turned his back on her and began to search the place methodically and exhaustively. When one searches any place, be it a gypsy caravan or a baronial mansion, methodically and exhaustively, one has to wreck it completely in the process.So, in a orderly and systematic fashion, Bowman set about reducing Czerda's caravan to a total ruin.

I broke that town in half like a wooden match.

Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow shall rise as his most fitting successor.

Clearly, I see it. I was just about to leave when I found her kneeling there. A mountain range of rubble was written, designed, erected around her. She was clucthing at a book.