“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”

“People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.”

“What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love.”

“Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise.”

“To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be destroyed.”

“People destroy what they love.”

“What people love, they destroy.”

“‎"Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again."What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder. He resumed,--"The love of a damned soul.”

“As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them.
Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.”

“This is how it has always been with me. Give me something good, I’ll destroy it. Love me, I’ll destroy you. I have never felt deserving of anything in my life.”