Top 100 Quotes About Ruins
#2. The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact.
Maurice Blanchot
#3. You really shouldn't lean against a wall and try to look tough unless you can cross your arms. Ruins the effect.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#4. I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.
Tadao Ando
#5. Europeans hate the way Americans talk. They think we're loud and uncouth and they don't like our jokes, except for Michael Moore. Plus, they resent the fact that they've had to learn our language because if they didn't we wouldn't buy their stupid metric widgets or visit their overpriced ruins.
Denis Boyles
#6. In most mills, only the best portions of the best trees are used, while the ruins are left on the ground to feed great fires which kill much of what is left of the less desirable timber, together with the seedlings on which the permanence of the forest depends.
John Muir
#7. Victory is no longer a truth. It is only a word to describe who is left alive in the ruins
Lyndon B. Johnson
#8. The difference between honest and dishonest commerce is that when an honest man or woman of business ruins someone, they don't have the courtesy to cut their throat to finish the affair.
Scott Lynch
#9. She is getting old, and he is getting old, right on schedule, and yet as time ruins them, they are not, strangely enough, married to each other.
Michael Chabon
#10. Right." A soft, choked laugh. "Kind of ruins the dramatic effect if I'm storming off in the wrong direction, doesn't it?
Kelley Armstrong
#11. One little step of a Big Mistake,
ruins only your life
and the love of someone else.
September 24, 2016
P.C.M. Hermans
Amen
Petra Hermans
#12. Who am I to say that these things might not be forever? Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary? All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park; an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.
John Green
#13. As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in ruins.
Sinead O'Connor
#15. Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions of what is beautiful and what is acceptable - which, I haste to add, we generally do not satisfy and by which we struggle to live.
Marilynne Robinson
#16. The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
Will Durant
#17. I'm thirty-four, you know. I'm not going to be one of these bitches that ruins children.
Ernest Hemingway,
#18. What if you go after the love of your life and it ruins you?
Robin York
#19. There are no beautiful houses in England now. Only ruins, mental homes, and Government offices.
Robert Aickman
#20. There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit.
There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.
Pablo Neruda
#21. All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.
Cormac McCarthy
#22. That's what the majority of people in the world do, they walk among the ruins of their life. Things that didn't work out, relationships that went sour, jobs that disappeared. All they can think about is their ruins, and when you focus on that you can't build a new you.
Richard Simmons
#23. ( ... ) it is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities; but it is grander still to contemplate the ruins of human beings!
Comte De Lautreamont
#24. This then will be the shape and the feel of the world: an abandoned shell, signs of old life, curious animals wandering in and out of ruins, the wilderness crowding in, overtaking all human structures and human things.
Ben H. Winters
#25. His house of cards had collapsed, and he lay among the ruins - but he was free. He felt euphoric, weightless, years younger. The only thing he missed was Indiana, but she too belonged to the past; she too had been carried off by the wind.
Isabel Allende
#26. That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.
St. Jerome
#27. How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?
John Fowles
#28. All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a chief of state.
W. H. Auden
#29. Evil thoughts and evil doing, cold, alone, you hang in ruins.
Ozzy Osbourne
#30. It is so often the small things overlooked which leave our schemes in ruins.
Joe Abercrombie
#32. To the lost, transfixed among the self-inflicted ruins,
All that is non-air (if this indeed is not deception)
Is agony immobilized. While Time,
The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.
Carson McCullers
#33. Well, there is something beautiful about ruins. I mean, in one sense it's not that different from going to Rome and looking at the Forum. But it's changing. It truly is. I'm optimistic but skeptical.
David Maraniss
#35. What could be more entrancing than a carefree nomadic existence camping, moving, exploring strange places and the ruins of forgotten empires, sleeping under canvas or the open sky, and giving no thought to the conventions and restriction of the modern world?
M.M. Kaye
#36. Sometimes one mistake ruins the whole thing.
Janice Liang
#37. Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese ... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old.
Buenaventura Durruti
#38. Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform.
J. B. Jackson
#39. I think I'm dying to get to know a particular guy. Then he opens his mouth and ruins it.
Elizabeth Chandler
#40. Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.
Chuck Palahniuk
#41. Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#42. A thousand happy moments succumbed to history. It was the happiest hour of the year, worst time of our lives. I can still smell the ruins from that cold dark brute stormy October night.
Parul Wadhwa
#43. I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. Thus prudes, by characters o'erthrown, Imagine that they raise their own. Thus Scribblers, covetous of praise, Think slander can transplant the bays.
John Gay
#45. Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
Walter Smith
#46. If you had said to anyone in 1945, at the end of the Second World War with the continent it ruins, that you could have a European Union of 28 member states stretching from Portugal in the West to Estonia in the East, all of them more-or-less liberal democracies - they wouldn't have believed you.
Timothy Garton Ash
#48. Chad has oil wells, so there are a few grand hotels for rich, who come to quickly take the money away before it ruins the charm of our mud and straw cities.
Daoud Hari
#49. When love dies and a marriage lies in ruins, the first casualty is honest memory, decent, impartial recall of the past. Too inconvenient, too damning of the present. It's the spectre of old happiness at the feast of failure and desolation.
Ian McEwan
#50. She's like that first taste of something you can't have - that priceless sip of Macallan poured neat - and no matter how many times you're lucky enough to get just a splash more, it's never enough to get you drunk...
The sip of Macallan that ruins you for all others.
K. Bromberg
#51. I loved her totally, and while I loved her, the world was love. Once she was gone, the world seemed to prove nothing more than ruins and the smoldering dreams of monsters.
Paul Harding
#52. Worry is a progressive disease that ruins one's life
Sunday Adelaja
#53. I don't want us to be the species that ruins it for the rest. What we do not consume we poison. Sometimes we do both. Perhaps that is how we shall end, by consuming the poisons we have created.
James Rozoff
#54. Be matured but not to a such extent that ruins your smile & innocence.
Abhishek Rai
#55. The reality is I have a closet full of shoes that I don't wear because they are not comfortable, and I am not going to be hobbling between meetings. There's nothing that ruins an entrance like somebody who's uncomfortable in their shoes.
Ivanka Trump
#56. She asks if I left a girlfriend behind when we moved. I say no, and she smiles, which just about ruins me.
Pittacus Lore
#57. Then he had run, unarmed and bleeding, trusting to the maze like confusion of the ruins to evade the monster behind him.
John Flanagan
#58. In the South, history clings to you like a wet blanket. Outside your door the past awaits in Indian mounds, plantation ruins, heaving sidewalks and homestead graveyards; each slowly reclaimed by the kudzu of time.
Tim Heaton
#59. Let the ruins come to life
In the beauty of Your name
Rising up from the ashes
God forever You reign
Hillsong
#60. (Later, Giddle's response when I told her I was in love: "Oh God, I'm so sorry. Love is awful. It ruins every normal thing, everything but itself. It makes you crazy and for nothing, because it's so disappointing. But good luck with that.")
Rachel Kushner
#61. Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.
Oscar Wilde
#62. I hate meeting my favorite bands because then it just ruins it.
Carlos Pena Jr.
#64. The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#65. Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.
Anselm Kiefer
#66. The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.
Lev Grossman
#67. Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.
H.G.Wells
#68. The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives; while photos and a few rare objects show our pride, our rare shining moments ... these rooms are future ruins
Anne Lamott
#69. Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience ... many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.
Robert Adams
#71. To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and foremost, be a stranger to them.
Orhan Pamuk
#72. Michael looked around the beautiful garden with its many colored flowers, fragrant lemon trees, the old statures of the gods dug from ancient ruins, other newer ones of holy saints, the rose-colored walls across the villa. It was a lovely setting for the examination of twelve murderous apostles.
Mario Puzo
#73. It was Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Edward Gibbon
#74. Delhi. The ruins of an old city, markets, monuments, broken mansions, the zigzag of roads, the still
sad times of music past. And rising up from it, her mother, wind in her hair, laughing like a witch.
Debotri Dhar
#75. I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.
Park Geun-hye
#76. I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.
Hermann Hesse
#77. Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God's plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins. God's love is still working. He comes in and takes the calamity and uses it victoriously, working out His wonderful plan of love.
Eric Liddell
#78. The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
George Santayana
#79. Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.
Douglas Kennedy
#80. In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities.
Cynthia Ozick
#81. A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.
Abram Joseph Ryan
#82. Shannon looked at the dumpy ruins around her. It was expansive and disgusting, but like a dog dump with a lace doily draped over it, there was beauty to be found
Debra Anastasia
#83. And I cried ... for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.
Sonia Sanchez
#84. Once more a red fire blows steeply upwards ... the factory will do no more work for Herr Churchill ... tomorrow morning Coventry will lie in smoke and ruins.
Joseph Goebbels
#85. The point of cool is to erase your ability to say no. Saying yes buys you cool cachet, but it always ruins your life later.
Greg Gutfeld
#86. This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!
William Wilberforce
#87. But to hear Mozart in a bombed city: how much more beautiful it sounds, as if it were composed to somehow soothe the ruins, to promise a wiser future rising from the rubble.
Ben Okri
#88. A city is built to resemble a conscious mind, a network that can calculate, administrate, manufacture. Ruins become the unconscious of a city, it's memory, unknown, darkness, lost lands, and in this truly bring it to life
Rebecca Solnit
#89. But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise; Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built; Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign, Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain.
John Denham
#90. The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
Lucretius
#91. What ruins the Humans fellows?
Anger
Anxiety
Boredoom
Crying
Shouting
Deyth Banger
#92. Know all men, he said, time's ruins build eternity's mansions.
James Joyce
#93. I don't like meeting bands that I like, because in the slight case that they might not be cool, it kind of ruins it for me.
Zac Farro
#94. We build our own cultures not only on the achievements of those that have come before but on their ruins.
Ken Robinson
#95. I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished schemes.
Laurel Lea
#96. I must find Ecstasy in this Insanity
Freedom from their Slavery
The Truth in their Lies
Life in their Death
Beauty in their Homicidal Genocide
Peace in the War Whore's evil orgy of Death and Negation
Love amongst the Ruins
Pleasure in my own Pain.
Lydia Lunch
#97. Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best.
Meg Cabot
#98. It was like coming home to a place that he held dear and finding that the wood had burnt to the ground and the house was in ruins.
Courtney Milan
#99. A city divided by religion is either already in ruins or close to it.
Giambattista Vico
#100. Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.
Stana Katic
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