Top 38 Beautiful Ruin Quotes
#1. Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same.
J.B. MacKinnon
#2. In eighteenth-century England, there was a practice of hiring a picturesque hermit who would inhabit the beautiful ruin on your estate. To me it rhymes with certain kinds of pop-music entertainers and eccentrics - both touted and tolerated.
David Grubbs
#3. With us it ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don't have to sit in no bar room blowin' in our jack jus' because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us.
John Steinbeck
#4. Whether beautiful or terrible, the past is always a ruin.
Matthew Flaming
#5. Why would he try to ruin something so beautiful? What is the world he was trying, and failing to create?
What is the world Runnemood is trying to create? And why must they both create their worlds by destroying?
Kristin Cashore
#6. The secret to succeeding in business, is in the first two letters of business... BU.
Daniel M. Lewis
#7. To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life.
Timothy Keller
#8. Most of the lights were burning brightly, but near the center of the spool was a patch of unlit bulbs - a substantia nigra deep inside the tangle.
Jonathan Franzen
#9. I think that commercials can really ruin a song. You know that the person sold the song for a good deal of money, and that was the tradeoff. But, music and picture can marry in a beautiful way, and the reverse also.
David Lynch
#10. When we are foolish, we want to conquer the world. When we are wise, we want to conquer ourselves. That begins when we do what we should no matter how we feel about it.
John C. Maxwell
#11. When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a connection here and people here that reminded me so much of my roots and my own family.
Cory Booker
#12. Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.
Kahlil Gibran
#13. I cradled her neck in my hand. She was so beautiful. So innocent... I didn't want to ruin this. This moment, her entire world-take your pick.
Kelley R. Martin
#14. Love can both ruin and save one. It is our deepest emotions that lay root to our most beautiful words.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#15. Oh, Brother. No matter your wreckage. There will be someone to find you beautiful, despite the cruddy metal. Your ruin is not to be hidden behind paint and canvas. Let them see the cracks.
Sarah Kay
#16. i wanted to destroy you.
you are mine to ruin.
something so beautiful
should only exist for me.
AVA.
#17. Ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty of their lot.
Russell Kirk
#18. I've seen it before. There are women who spread ruin through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too ful of life and love. They can't help it. Poeple come to them as people go to a warm fire in winter.
Willa Cather
#20. Experience shows that those people who were selected to be a head coach in the NFL met with more success if they had had head-coaching experience.
Bob McNair
#21. That loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable-- that one false step involves her in endless ruin-- that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful-- and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behavior towards the undeserving of the opposite sex." ~Mary Bennett, P&P
Jane Austen
#22. Every beautiful facade seemed to conceal rot and ruin that I could almost see.
Dean Koontz
#23. But I still fear I'll break him, and that boy is too damn sweet and beautiful to ruin.
Jessica Sorensen
#24. Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.
Craig Thompson
#25. Being a regular in a television series, for me - if I wanted to be a cop, I woulda went to cop school. If I wanted to be a doctor, I would've gone to medical school. You get trapped in your normal episodic television shows, basically doing the same thing.
Michael Hogan
#26. Pondering over your actions is a practical way of helping yourself in the battle against sin.
Sunday Adelaja
#27. Radio Wave Sickness and Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity are easily preventable and one can only wonder how much longer the insanity of modern governments is going to be allowed to continue in this area.
Steven Magee
#28. The loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable - that one false step involves in her endless ruin - that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful - and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behavior towards the undeserving of the opposite sex.
Jane Austen
#29. I sometimes wonder whether century-old ruins look so beautiful to us beacause they were *meant* to ruin in a beautiful way. There was a Romantic facination with structural decay; wealthy gentry had custom-built ruins erected on their estates, their own little Country Churchyards to elegize in
Paul Collins
#30. Maybe he would ruin her like the waves crashes the shore, but nothing was more beautiful for her than wanting to be wrecked into his demise. In his ruins she breathed to exist.
Prachi Prangya Agasti
#31. No matter your wreckage. There will be someone to find you beautiful, despite the cruddy metal. Your ruin is not to be hidden behind paint and canvas. Let them see the cracks. Someone will come to sing into these empty spaces.
Sarah Kay
#32. In a typical college romance novel, this was the moment I would've been waiting for. The validation of all my shame and suffering at the hands of other men: a beautiful boy loved me. What had been done to my body didn't ruin me for Mr. Right. Zippity-fucking-doo-dah.
Leah Raeder
#33. A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo, with or without rhythmic nuances, and it will still be great music. That's how music should be written, so that no-one, no matter how philistine, can ruin it.
Dmitri Shostakovich
#35. If the path is beautiful, all you have to do when walking in that path is to be beautiful so as to not ruin the beauty of the path!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#37. CURTAIN CALL
The world is our stage and the final act can highlight or ruin a beautiful play
Kamil Ali
#38. Only suckers worry. But he can knock the worry if he takes a Scotch and soda. The hell with what the doctor says. So he rings for one and the steward comes sleepily, and as he drinks it, the speculator is not a sucker now; except for death.
Ernest Hemingway,
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