Eckhart Tolle

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

German Speaker

Adlai Stevenson I

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

American Politician

J. F. C. Fuller

To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.

British Soldier

Bertha von Suttner

The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity.

Austrian Novelist

Martha McSally

It might not be pretty, but the A-10 is our most capable close air-support aircraft, and its arrival on the battlefield signals survival for our troops and annihilation for our enemies.

L. Neil Smith

It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.

American Writer

Simone Weil

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

French Philosopher

Barney Oliver

Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.

Scientist

Elie Wiesel

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

American Novelist

Winifred Holtby

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

English Novelist

Annihilation implies nothing is left after destruction, suggesting a very final or irreversible state.

Complete Elimination

The term is often used to describe extreme events or actions with catastrophic consequences.

Extreme Intensity

Used metaphorically, annihilation can describe someone being ignored or excluded to an extreme extent.

Social Disappearance

When used for social situations, annihilation often does not involve physical harm, but a loss of status or reputation.

Not Literal

In sports, annihilation may be hyperbolic, emphasizing a strong win or loss, not physical destruction.

Sporting Hyperbole

Understanding the smothering or overwhelming aspect helps grasp the extent of defeat in competitive contexts.

Context Sensitive

In physics, annihilation is a precise term for a rare event where matter and antimatter destroy each other.

Scientific Specificity

The physics definition implies that energy is the outcome when annihilation occurs.

Energy Release

 And even in the moment he didn't want to be reminded of what he was doing. I know that we have systematically annihilated the girl cell. And I want to say we've annihilated it in men as well as in women. And I think in some ways we've been much harsher to men in the annihilation of their girl cell.

Eve Ensler: Embrace your...

 they treated their soldiers well, promoted based on merit, rather than birth, established a vast postal system, and inforced universal rule of law, not to mention their contribution to culture." "You mean like Hulagu Khan's annihilation of Baghdad, the era's cultural capital?

History vs. Genghis Khan...

 And for those of you who love the arts, aren't you glad you invited me here to brighten your day? Now, rather than saying that we're on the brink of our own annihilation, I prefer to believe that we are engaged in a fundamental reformation,

Ben Cameron: The true...

 displacement that took place of an entire community and that's different than i think some other you know projects that might just be in a park or something but you're dealing with the annihilation of an entire community

Black Women and the...

 each inserted plus was immediately followed by a minus. If we examine the starting position of any other matter cube, its sum will eventually hit zero. The moment that happens marks its exact annihilation partner.

Can you solve the Big...

 by the atrocities of his fellow man. And when he returned to England to find Cold War superpowers threatening one another with nuclear annihilation, he was forced to interrogate the very roots of human nature.

Why should you read...

 they can decide the fate of millions of yours, mine, our community's. And they can do this and launch a nuclear strike, potentially setting in motion the annihilation of the human race.

3 questions we should...

 to the threat of nuclear annihilation. Surely, 100 years will have been enough. Surely, a century of economic development and the development of military strategy

The world doesn't need...

 from Justine's annihilation, whereas those of us doing the actual shaming -- we got nothing. We were like unpaid shaming interns for Google. And then came the

How one tweet can ruin...

 communication annihilation fire made us warriors and builders and explorers