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Quotes About Ruin

how we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days were bright red, and every time we kissed there was another apple to slice into pieces. Look at the light through the windowpane. That means it's noon, that means we're inconsolable. Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we'll never get used to it.
~ Richard Siken
Dear So-and-So, I'm sorry I couldn't come to your party. Dear So-and-So, I'm sorry I came to your party and seduced you and left you bruised and ruined, you poor sad thing.
~ Richard Siken
Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
~ Richard Siken
The fields burned, the land destroyed, the lovers left broken in the brown dirt.
~ Richard Siken
sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud.
~ Richard Siken
Hello darling, sorry about that. Sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud. Especially that, but I should have known.
~ Richard Siken
Tribes, I says. They're a powerful curse laid on you when you get born. They ruin you, but you can't get away from them. They're a nightmare a body's got to live with in the day time.
~ Robert Coover
The only way to break out of a negative dynamic is to confront it. Repressing your anger, avoiding the person threatening you, always looking to conciliate—these common strategies spell ruin. Avoidance of conflict becomes a habit, and you lose the taste for battle. Feeling guilty is pointless; it is not your fault you have enemies.
~ Robert Greene
Once through this ruined city did I pass I espied a lonely bird on a bough and asked 'What knowest thou of this wilderness?' It replied: 'I can sum it up in two words: 'Alas, Alas!
~ Khushwant Singh
Such was love. It could ruin a man, raise him up again, and then brand him anew; it could fancy me today, you tomorrow, and someone else tomorrow night, that's how fickle it was. But it could also hold fast like an unbreakable seal and blaze with unquenchable passion until the hour of death, because it was eternal. So, what was the nature of love?
~ Knut Hamsun
We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.
~ W. H. Auden
The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.
~ Jonathan Swift
There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic.
~ W. S. Gilbert
It's a filthy city. Everything here is trash. Eventually someone's gotta burn it.
~ Yoshihiro Tatsumi
If he provokes a war, his empire shakes, And all her lofty glories nod to ruin.
~ young edward iii
O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!
~ young edward iv
Il mondo di certo finirà in rovina, però prima che ciò avvenga per alcuni attimi si materializzeranno splendide movenze che in un altrettanto breve intervallo scompariranno.
~ Yukio Mishima
True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.
~ Yukio Mishima
Celle qui ruine l'etre, la beaute . . .
~ Yves Bonnefoy
New Rome will be destroyed by the attacks of new vandals.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
And he hated himself and hated her,too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.
~ Dennis Lehane
El éxito a menudo genera éxito. las personas de éxito asocian con y aprender de la gente exitosa. Y así es como un león va viento en popa. éxito, sin embargo, debe ser manejado con prudencia, porque históricamente el éxito ha arruinado a más personas que las fallas. Buena suerte!
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.
~ Emile M. Cioran
To rule by knowledge ravages the country.
~ Laozi