Top 100 Ruin Life Quotes
#1. From every ruin, life springs up again and everything that dies is born again.
Isabelle Eberhardt
#2. Making bad decisions and choosing the wrong partner can ruin your life for a long time, perhaps forever.
Karrine Steffans
#3. Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#4. If you ruin your life, you will pay the price of rehabilitating yourself ... We are not punished for our sins, but by them. Liberty means responsibility.
Mike Cloud
#5. Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum, destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole coming generation.
Sigmund Freud
#7. The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
Sun Tzu
#8. If life is going well, I watch quality things like period dramas and 'The Blue Planet.' But other times, I'll trawl through anything Freeview has to offer. I do believe TV can ruin your mind, but it can also be a really good friend.
Raquel Cassidy
#9. As water downs ships but upholds leaves,
and as fires burn cities but refines gold,
so do life's troubles propel the meek to greatness
and the proud to ruin.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#10. I was being hated for about 40 or 50 years by the whole world, but it did not destroy me, and it did not ruin my health. And the reason is because I just did not answer them. I had my own life.
Yoko Ono
#11. In the end, an impatience with the Word of God can be explained only by an impatience with God. We all, both individually and congregationally, neglect God's Word to our own ruin.
Albert Mohler
#12. Be careful, you'll ruin your dinner," I said. "I'm a fucking adult. Ruining my dinner is one of the few pleasures in life," she said as she stuffed the cookies in her mouth. "True story. Give me some of those.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#13. Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.
Melissa Bean
#14. last the play was ended. All had grown dark. The tears streamed down his face. Looking up into the sky there was nothing but blackness there too. Ruin and death, he thought, cover all. The life of man ends in the grave. Worms devour us.
Virginia Woolf
#15. I've seen you fuck up one major relationship. I'll be damned if I let you ruin this one as well!
Stjepan Sejic
#16. Perfectionism will ruin your writing, blocking inventiveness and playfulness and life force
Anne Lamott
#17. I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.
Beau Willimon
#18. All his life he had not planted one tree in his own garden, nor grown one blade of grass; and living among the living, he had not saved one fly; he had done nothing but destroy and ruin, and lie, lie ...
Anton Chekhov
#19. Things you Do to live a Happy life, shouldn't ruin others'.
Mohith Agadi
#20. It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.
Anton Chekhov
#21. Such is life in the Roman Empire, which has begun its slow decline into ruin. There is little justice or nobility among
Bill O'Reilly
#22. You don't want to ruin a kid's life for having a joint,
Rick Perry
#23. Nothing will ruin your life more than thinking you should have your life together already.
Jay Coles
#24. It feels like he's marking me. Like he's preparing me for something monumental. That could both change and ruin my life.
Katy Evans
#25. I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.
Tom Stoppard
#26. Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing better than swollen fortunes for the few and the triumph in both politics and business of a sordid and selfish materialism.
Theodore Roosevelt
#27. It may be a very little thing for you to say to a young man the few words that turn him from the way of ruin, and win him back to life and hope. It may be a very little thing to you; but it is every thing to the young man.
John Bartholomew Gough
#28. I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone because it'll ruin my image.
Courtney Love
#29. Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process, we are moving into life from death, without denying the devastation that came before.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#30. The sharpest minds often ruin their lives by overthinking the next step, while the dull win the race with eyes closed.
Bethany Brookbank
#31. How strange and changeful is life! How small a thing is needed to make or ruin us!
Jack London
#32. Though we often see life troughs as the universe's conspiracy to ruin us, they're actually our own true nature inviting us to lay down our weary heads.
Martha Beck
#33. Edward thought he was going to ruin Bella's life and he made her happy. And that really was everything for him.
Stephenie Meyer
#34. You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!
Stephen Covey
#35. Thinking you don't have unhealthy patterns is an unhealthy pattern in itself. And everyone has something unhealthy from their childhood. If you don't deal with it, it can ruin your life.
Candace Bushnell
#36. There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people say one thing and mean another, and you have to know all the rules, you have to know what you can and can't do.
Elizabeth Scott
#37. I've been working for other people my whole life, and all they do is ignore my ideas. That's if I'm lucky. If I'm not lucky, they ruin my ideas and then make me
Leonard Richardson
#38. Feels like a sandcastle; temporary and something that the waves of life and time will soon ruin ...
Bella Forrest
#40. Don't let this anger ruin your life any more than it already has. If you want to every achieve happiness, don't dwell on the past. Instead, start living. What is the point of obsessing that has already happened, and that you cannot change? Live! And be merry.
Kien Nguyen
#41. The Internet has become a tool to pick on people and ruin someone's life. I don't think parents realize what's going on.
Alexa Vega
#42. 8. It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character. Otherwise it cannot harm you - inside or out.
Marcus Aurelius
#43. So the life I have made
May seem wrong to you
But, I've never been surer
It's my life to ruin
My own way ...
Morrissey
#45. I hope your life is ruined before you ruin someone's life. Just like you ruined mine.
Mohamed Ghazi
#46. She was supposed to be my salvation, and though she wouldn't be my ruin, the loss was going to thrust my life right back to what started my downward spiral in the first place.
Kelly Moran
#47. Just remember, your mother doesn't let things happen to her. When something tries to ruin her life, she drags it into the street.
Kiera Cass
#48. One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is three or four big days that change everything.
Beverly Donofrio
#49. At least this mountain world, to which I owed so much of life and happiness, would stand above the ruin of human hopes, the heritage of a saner generation of men.
Eric Shipton
#50. Worry is a part of life. These burdensome thoughts plaque us all. The key is not to let these thoughts ruin your day & your life.
Timothy Pina
#51. To let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for life.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#52. She'd known it her whole life. It was the one thing she was certain of. That someday, everyone she loved would die. Everything she loved would crumble to ruin. It was the price of life. It was the price of love. It was the only ending for every true story.
Martha Brockenbrough
#53. Holding on to resentments and anger can ruin your quality of life. The only person who suffers from your failure to forgive is you - it is not the other guy. When you stay hostile or resentful, it tears down your immune system and increases your risk of disease.
Deborah King
#54. Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.
D.H. Lawrence
#55. ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP
Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to subsist on water and air, have a species named after me, and ruin my life.
Nicole Krauss
#56. I'll ruin everything if you touch me. I'll ruin us. I'll ruin this. I'll ruin you, just like you said. I'll ruin you and I'll ruin your life. And I love you too much to ruin you. So I'm leaving.
J.A. Huss
#57. Three things ruin a man: power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.
Harry S. Truman
#58. Knowledge is power; power corrupts. Corruption brings shame and ruin. Ignorance may not be bliss, but it is perhaps preferable to a life lived in shame.
Lauren Kate
#59. I still don't get why I have to eat breakfast if you don't," Josie muttered.
"Because you have to be a certain age to earn the right to ruin your own life.
Lisa Kleypas
#60. My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
Manoj Bhargava
#61. Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
Josh Billings
#62. Contentment and happiness didn't exist in my life for more than a few moments at a time, and they were really only illusionary. There was always something hidden. Lying in wait to spring up and ruin everything.
Sylvia Day
#63. You can't afford to let the heartbreaks in life ruin your future.
Cheryl Koevoet
#64. It is well known that lust brings madness and desperation and ruin. But upon my oath, I never meant any harm. All I wanted was to be happy, to love and to be loved in return, and for my life to count for something.
That is not madness, is it?
Fiona Mountain
#65. I am ready for the most exhilarating time of my life, discovery before me, negativity behind me, through the road to ruin, I will find within me, my most unshakeable truth.
Nikki Rowe
#66. Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !
Benjamin Franklin
#67. Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.
Maureen Forrester
#68. Love and ruin are explained with letters of the alphabet.
The power of the word can describe the glory of the universe. It only requires an open mind and heart.
J.R. Ortiz
#69. I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flickered to life in his eyes. "Always," he promised, kissing my brow, his wings now enveloping me completely. "Always.
Sarah J. Maas
#70. The American family is failing in its job of turning out stable human beings ... It is failing because Americans do not dare to cultivate in themselves those characteristics which would make family life creative and rewarding. To do so, would ruin them financially.
Margaret Halsey
#71. You want something you can't have, Gurgeh. You enjoy your life in the Culture, but it can't provide you with sufficient threats; the true gambler needs the excitement of potential loss, even ruin, to feel wholly alive.
Anonymous
#72. But when we crave power over life - endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality - then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#73. There is always somebody about to ruin your day, if not your life.
Charles Bukowski
#74. Sadly, if we are not confident about our choices, we can easily let other peoples' comments make us feel guilty and ruin the joy we need to experience in life through doing the little things that mean a lot to us.
Joyce Meyer
#75. Sometimes too much tolerance can kill you.If you are tolerant of people poisoning themselves to death they will drag you down. They will ruin your life by being intentional obstacles to your dreams.
Ted Nugent
#76. Three things ruin a man," Harry would tell a reporter long afterward. "Power, money, and women. "I never wanted power," he said. "I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now." On
David McCullough
#77. I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me, and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can.
Mindy McCready
#78. We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).
Alain De Botton
#79. I hope I'm worthy in my dying. I hope I can maintain myself - that I wouldn't become pathetic and needy, and the worst part of myself come out in adversity. But I'm not afraid of it. It'd be such a silly thing to do! To ruin the life you have by fearing its ending.
Brendan Gleeson
#80. It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.
Arundhati Roy
#82. There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
Boris Yeltsin
#84. The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life.
Mason Cooley
#85. Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I ...
F Scott Fitzgerald
#86. I'm a working parent and I understand that sometimes you want to have a very productive Saturday to feel that you are in control of your life, which of course you are not. Children and Jimmy Carter ruin all your best-laid plans.
Tina Fey
#87. Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.
Judith Guest
#88. When you care for someone, you don't ruin their life!
Gaelen Foley
#89. Life is only precious if you wish it to be.' I look at it like the last bite of a wonderful meal - do you enjoy it, or does the knowledge that there is no more to follow make it so bitter that you would ruin the experience?
Michael J. Sullivan
#90. Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#91. Austria, Germany and the U.S. South did not disappear as a result of their currencies' ruin. Although many people suffered, most people found a way to survive, life went on, and economic activity eventually resumed after the adoption of a 'reformed' or foreign medium of exchange.
Robert Higgs
#92. A world of little cares is continually arising, which busy or affluent life knows nothing of, to open the first door to distress. Hunger is not among the postponable wants; and a day, even a few hours, in such a condition is often the crisis of a life of ruin.
Thomas Paine
#93. However well off a man may be in his private life, he will still be involved in the general ruin if his country is destroyed; whereas, so long as the state itself is secure, individuals have a much greater chance of recovering from their private misfortunes.
Thucydides
#94. War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.
Sun Tzu
#95. Just when it seems like life is getting good, something always has to come along and ruin it.
Susane Colasanti
#98. Now I've had two men in my life choose me over the welfare of a nation. First my father, and now my husband.
Never again will I underestimate this man's devotion. He will ruin countries for me.
Laura Thalassa
#99. Tears can ruin the handiwork of the best beautician.
Anurag Shourie
#100. Life stories with themes of ruin can trap us. Life stories that are triumphant can transform us.
Meg Jay
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