Quotes About Ruin

This false return, this corrupted reunion. This end of everything.

How to distinguish hysteria from wisteria, aftermath from ruin? There's no way to separate this evening from its dusk.

Well then! it was the end; his ruin was complete. Even if he mended the cables and lit the fires, where would he find men? Another fortnight's strike and he would be bankrupt. And in this certainty of disaster he no longer felt any hatred of the Montsou bandits; he felt that all had a hand in it, that it was a general agelong fault. They were brutes, no doubt, but brutes who could not read, and who were dying of hunger.

A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.

The passion for defiling things was inborn in her. It was not enough for her to destroy them, she had to soil them too.

Alors, Nana, tout de suite, entama La Faloise. Il postulait depuis longtemps l'honneur d'être ruiné par elle, afin d'être parfaitement chic.

A great Hope fell You heard no noise The Ruin was within Oh cunning wreck that told no tale And let no Witness in

Crumbling is not an instant's Act A fundamental pause Dilapidation's processes Are organized Decays. 'Tis first a Cobweb on the Soul A Cuticle of Dust A Borer in the Axis An Elemental Rust— Ruin is formal—Devil's work Consecutive and slow— Fail in an instant, no man did Slipping—is Crash's law.

They see their lives and the present as spoiled beyond remedy and they are ready to waste and wreck both: hence their recklessness

A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.

They did not understand that war, which trained courage and founded the cities of barbarous and ignorant men, brings to victor himself but ruin and misery, and is nothing but a horrible and stupid crime when nations are united together by common bonds of art, science, and trade.

No," answered the Lord. "The remedy would be worse than the disease. It would be the ruin of the priesthood if essence prevailed over form in the laws of salvation." "Alas! Lord," sighed the humble Probus. "Be persuaded by my humble experience; as long as you reduce your sacraments to formulas your justice will meet with terrible obstacles.

A rotten fish spoils all the fish in the basket.

For our excess we lost everything.

I don't want to bother them and ruin the party they are preparing so carefully at La Scala.

Often, when I became a consultant to a federal agency, that precipitated its demise.

The Roundhouse was a complete shell. It was absolutely empty, lying derelict for years.

Cities are made for enemies to destroy.

Some people derive pleasure in constructive work while some are happy in destruction.

Passion is very destructive.

I was going to ruin everything, right here and right now. I'm really not good with impulse control.

Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that every bus runs me over, that every low, mean syllable uttered in my direction seems to intimate the violence of murder, that every family seems like an opportunity for ruin and every marriage a ceremony into which calamity will fall and hearts will be broken and lives destroyed and people branded by the mortifications of love?

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.