Top 100 Ruined Quotes
#1. A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.
Victor Hugo
#2. I remember the first check I got for 'The Office,' and it made me feel sad. It ruined it ... Because there was sort of a nobility in poverty.
Ricky Gervais
#3. My father was ruined by hard drink - he sat on an icicle.
Bob Monkhouse
#4. Throughout my trading career, I have continually witnessed examples of other people that I have known being ruined by a failure to respect risk. If you don't take a hard look at risk, it will take you.
Larry Hite
#5. How odd, that I ruined my marriage over that little girl with whom I had nothing in common except that we both liked a good laugh and a cold beer after sex.
Gillian Flynn
#7. I needed a place to put the dogs. The prisoners ruined the jail, so I put the prisoners in the tents and I had a nice place to put the dogs. We treat the cats nice too, and horses. I have the inmates take care of the animals. It's therapy too, you see.
Joe Arpaio
#8. She lay on her back in bed for a long time thinking and when she returned to school an hour early she was beyond all desire to cry and she had sharpened her sense of smell along with her claws so that she could track down the miserable whore who had ruined her life.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#9. People are ruined by challenged economic lives. But they are ruined by wealth as well because they lose their ambition and they lose their pride and they lose their sense of self-worth
Malcolm Gladwell
#10. I realized that her life
her feelings for things
had been ruined
along the way
and that I was no more than a
temporary
companion
Charles Bukowski
#11. A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
Caitlin Moran
#12. Life is like defusing a bomb, once you cut the wrong wire your whole life is ruined.
Mohamed Zahy Hussain
#13. Never has anyone been so willing to be ruined as you were.
Joanna Jordan
#14. They were two ruined souls doomed to wander their minds, if not the earth, trying to remember from whence they came.
Tania James
#15. I've never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he's just ruined
Lisa Kleypas
#16. Saddam Hussein, influenced by fascism, ordered the deaths of tens of thousands of people, fought two disastrous wars, turned his nation into an international pariah and ruined his country's economy. In other words, his record is identical to George W. Bush's.
Ted Rall
#17. No longer can I bear with the ruined god, betrayed and beaten by his own magic. Calling on powers best left unsummoned, he took human beings apart - and then he put them back together again.
Martin Amis
#18. Oh dear white children, casual as birds,
Playing among the ruined languages,
So small beside their large confusing words.
W. H. Auden
#19. Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.
Joseph Lancaster
#20. I liked Hell,
I liked to go there alone
relieved to lie in the wreckage, ruined, physically undone.
The worst had happened. What else could hurt me then?
I thought it was the worst, thought nothing worse could come.
Then nothing did, and no one.
Marie Howe
#21. I believe in diversification of income, because you never know what will happen. I'm a slightly paranoid person who thinks things could be ruined at any time.
Eugene Mirman
#22. Bettman is an asshole. A frikkin asshole. I think he's ruined the game of hockey. He's supposed to be impartial. He's supposed to speak for the good of the league, but in my opinion, he's strictly behind the owners. Those 1996 rule changes are a joke
Bob Probert
#23. "Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.
George Eliot
#25. I'm not sure which I dislike more: 'Ulysses' or the James Joyce estate. Admittedly, a few people have got some pleasure from 'Ulysses', but against that, you have to weigh the millions of lives that have been ruined by the futile attempts to read it.
Kevin Myers
#26. It's amazing, really, how in one instant a wall can be torn down, or climbed over. Misconceptions can be shattered, illusions dashed, dreams irrevocably ruined. Given the right frame of mind, within a heartbeat, people can begin the business of starting over.
Tamara Thiel
#27. A headstrong maid, that she is-and won't listen to no advice at all. Pride and vanity have ruined many a cobbler's dog.
Thomas Hardy
#28. The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
George Bernard Shaw
#29. Flynn -I'm glad you ruined me."
Her voice stabs my heart, because I recognize that tone. I've heard it before. "Don't start with the good-byes
Amie Kaufman
#30. Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.
Tom Perrotta
#31. And we held each other in the dark hall and laughed, with the tears running down our cheeks and echoes of our laughter going up the ruined stairway to the sky.
'I am so happy,' Constance said at last, gasping. 'Merricat, I am so happy.'
'I told you that you would like it on the moon.
Shirley Jackson
#32. Do the girls emerge quite ruined for marriage after you stuff them full of knowledge?"
"I should imagine most of our girls emerge less tolerant of fools, if that's what you mean."
- Dryden and Phoebe
Julie Anne Long
#33. Well, fallen angel. Now you're quite ruined," she said, reverting to the formal you. "No, aren't you afraid? Well, goodbye! You'll get back on your own, right?
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#34. This is the girl, here, this girl with a ruined look who touches me and whom I love.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#35. The story was gradually taking shape. Pilon liked it this way. It ruined a story to have it all come out quickly. The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out of the hearer's own experience.
John Steinbeck
#37. And fuck, I was ruined. Ruined for sex with anyone else, ruined for using a condom with this girl.
Christina Lauren
#39. Which I guess is better than her playing her usual role in How I Ruined My Daughter's Life.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#40. The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced.
Robert Toombs
#41. I'm here because I was born here and thus ruined for anywhere else, but I don't know about you.
Colson Whitehead
#42. Enjoyed that, did you?" Chaol growled.
"Immensely." Celaena patted Chaol's arm as she took it in her own. "Now you must pretend that you like me, or else everything will be ruined.
Sarah J. Maas
#43. Each man's hell is in a different
place: mine is just up and
behind
my ruined
face.
from Let's Make a Deal
Charles Bukowski
#44. No one wants to be ruined. We all want to be saved.
Erin Watt
#45. The battlefields where the dice of world history have been thrown can never be ordinary fields again and no god from a vanished civilization is so dead that he does not live on in his ruined temple.
Goran Schildt
#46. I concluded that it was impossible for me to be killed, because God loved me. Then I told myself that God loved us all and that many would die or be ruined physically or mentally or both by the next morning and in the days following.
Eugene B. Sledge
#47. The eye hath ruined me,' the heart complained. 'The heart has lost me,' the eye replied. I know not which told the truth, which lied Between, the two, it was Meer who died.
Khushwant Singh
#49. Girls, you know it's all just a game to them, relationships. Just go around stomping on everyone ... I mean, look at this poor guy in the background with his collar up. You know he's just gonna get ruined by women.
Robert Pattinson
#50. I can say without melodrama or malice that Hollywood ruined my life.
Jerome Charyn
#51. God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the very roots and sea-bed of the nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the ruined world up with Him.
C.S. Lewis
#52. And yet he held his tongue, wanting his farewell with Marina to be peaceable, not out of any magnanimity, but so that after Tor ruined her - he felt confident Tor would ruin her - and she was once more alone, she would think of Lucy's graciousness and feel the long-lingering sting of bitter regret.
Patrick DeWitt
#53. He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"
the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.
Honore De Balzac
#54. My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it cost her dearly. Late in her life, she was furious that she had not followed her own heart; she thought that it had ruined her life, and I think she was right.
Ruth Reichl
#55. Life is a blast when you know what you're doin',
Best to know what you're doin' 'fore your life get ruined.
Life is a thrill when your skill is developed,
If you ain't got a skill or trade, then shut the hell up.
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien
#56. No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!
Amelia Barr
#57. The character of a people may be ruined by charity.
Theodor Herzl
#58. School has ruined cinema.It's official. There's nothing worth living for.
Stephanie Perkins
#60. The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale
#61. Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!
Diana Wynne Jones
#62. No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.
Michael Chabon
#63. When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.
Stephen King
#64. Every divorce represents a broken dream, a shattered hope, a ruined expectation.
Billy Graham
#65. Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isn't ruined if I lose. I'm always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, that's something that's nice about maturing.
Aaron Staton
#66. Goddamn it," Zane murmured, raking a hand through his hair. What had happened was his fault - he had failed to be the dominant that the submissive obviously wanted and most certainly needed. Instead of taking control he had relinquished it and thus had probably ruined any chance with her.
Sharon Davis
#67. Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.
Aristotle.
#68. A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.
Lin Yutang
#69. ... as I said; the Nazi party was built on ruined lives - a failed career, the bitterness that feeds on injustice, redemption promised by a radical political movement.
Alan Furst
#70. I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays ...
Carmen Laforet
#71. Very little is needed for everything to be upset and ruined, only a slight lapse in reason.
Epictetus
#72. We ruined ourselves-I have never honestly thought that we ruined each other.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#73. I don't drink since it ruined the best thing I ever had.
Kimberly Lauren
#74. Luther, he ruined the bible by translating it into their own language.
Umberto Eco
#75. That 'creature,' that 'woman of loose behaviour' is perhaps holier than you are yourselves, you monks who are seeking salvation! She fell perhaps in her youth, ruined by her environment. But she loved much and Christ himself forgave the woman 'who loved much.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#76. The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
Hermann Hesse
#77. Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Anton Chekhov
#78. A family may be ruined by extravagance, but it is not always through ruin that the representatives in a family are to be found in humble or comparatively humble circumstances, but that the junior members of a gentle family went into trade.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#79. Do not keep control over household affairs. The one who keeps control has to wander around. The unusable money [torn notes, ruined coins] are offered as homage in prayer rituals! 'Live' as a 'friend' with the 'wife'. You are her 'friend' and she is your 'friend'.
Dada Bhagwan
#80. But this flower comes in the form of a human; it must soon succumb to disease, atrophy, ruined skin, broken teeth, the unbearable frailty of mortality.
Mary Gaitskill
#81. The soul is nothing but the innards of the finest watch, ruined before the watchmaker's hands even touch it, by its exposure to air.
Kathy Hepinstall
#82. He was wondering at the unreality of ideas, at the fading radiance of existence, and at the little absorptions that were creeping avidly into his life, like rats into a ruined house
F Scott Fitzgerald
#83. Messy spirituality is the delirious consequence of a life ruined by a Jesus who will love us right into his arms.
Michael Yaconelli
#84. I need you to be my foil!" she wailed. "I need someone to disagree with him, so I can agree with him and support him like a good wife should! Please, Evelyn! I cannot become a ruined spinster!
Tarun Shanker
#85. Justin Butterfield of Illinois, a Federalist-turned-Whig, said of the Mexican-American War, said, "I opposed one war and it ruined me. From now on I am for war, pestilence and famine.
Michael S. Green
#86. I was eighteen years old, and I thought I loved him. I should have known, but I didn't.
And I don't deserve to be abused for it. Judged for it. Called names.
I don't deserve to have my life ruined.
Robin York
#87. Soul drunk, body ruined, these two sit helpless in a wrecked wagon. Neither knows how to fix it.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#88. Before I went on stage at Kyle Hutton's Real Life Real Music Festival, I heard one of his songwriting students, Abbey Hirvela, sing; she was in the poet's saddle and riding that horse like she owned it. She was good! I probably ruined her by showing her how to make an E chord without the 3rd though.
Ray Wylie Hubbard
#89. The only truly ruined people are those who believe they are.
Chris Crutcher
#90. Still, I couldn't help looking at Daphne in morbid satisfaction. 'What did I tell you? Our first double date? Officially ruined.
Jennifer Estep
#91. My grandfather ... saw where inherited wealth ruined people. And my grandfather was right.
Dan Quayle
#93. We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other's dreams.
Kate Chisman
#94. And then she kissed him," he murmurs, "and all manner of thought left his head. It was a kiss he had dreamed about, but it was a thousand times better than his dreams. And he was ruined in all the best ways ... and he'd never be the same again.
Beth Michele
#95. Why were men so caught up with their honor, their solemn word, their promises?
Half the time the promises were never asked of them in the first place.
And yet the wars that were fought over such things, the hearts broken and the lands ruined..!
Tad Williams
#96. A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Samuel Johnson
#97. English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy.
John Ruskin
#98. Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.
Charles Caleb Colton
#99. As the music played over the speakers and the waterfall in the pool filled the silence around us, I knew that, without a doubt, I had just been ruined.
Abbi Glines
#100. Dove's heart broke. He'd been so hopeful until cock rings and butt fucking ruined his career.
Debra Anastasia
