[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.
— Jared DiamondIt's not that success is guaranteed that we go to war. It's because it is the only alternative we have left to avoid annihilation.
— Bangambiki HabyarimanaThose who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.
— Michael Bassey JohnsonIf antimatter and matter make contact, both are destroyedinstantly. Physicists call the process ‘annihilation.
— Dan BrownIt is because I know all that science can bring to the world that I shall continue my efforts to ensure that it contributes to the happiness of all men, whether they be white, black, or yellow, and not to their annihilation in the name of some divine mission or other.
— Frédéric Joliot-CurieI wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to shake the stone and light out of my system. I wanted the dark fecundity of nature, the deep well of the womb, silence, or else the lapping of the black waters of death. I wanted to be that night which the remorseless eye illuminated, a night diapered with stars and trailing comets. To be of night so frighteningly silent, so utterly incomprehensible and eloquent at the same time. Never more to speak or to listen or to think.
— Henry MillerAnd there he would either be mercifully annihilated or live forever, insane and yet conscious inside It's homicidal endless formless hungry being.
— Stephen KingProcreation annihilates eternity.
— Dejan StojanovicLove is not an idea, not a feeling, not a sensation, not a sentiment, not a passion, not even an emotion. It is becoming and being not... Ultimate nothingness! Complete self-annihilation!
— Raheel FarooqHaving drunk the dregs of Your Love, I am intoxicated beyond recognition. Now, I only pray for the nearness of You so I may advance in my annihilation.
— Kamand Kojouri