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Quotes About Ruin

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
~ Stendhal
Schulze muttered at one point, "Adolf ist kaputt.
~ Stephan Talty
The little fever of envy, once caught, is the ruin of all happiness.
~ Stephanie Barron
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
~ Sophocles
My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with.
~ Michael Chabon
ha pedig meg lehet menteni, akkor még jobban elcseszni is lehet.
~ Michael Chabon
If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose -- the gambler is always ruined.
~ Michael Crichton
It's the solitude that slays you. Maybe because you'd expected ruin to arrive in a grander and more romantic form.
~ Michael Cunningham
For a while Bastian stood motionless. He was so stunned by what he had just heard that he couldn't decide what to do... What he had hoped was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.
~ Michael Ende
Margrethe: And when all our eyes are closed, when even the ghosts have gone, what will be left of our beloved world? Our ruined and dishonoured and beloved world?
~ Michael Frayn
You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't let it ruin your life. I'm actually a pretty composed person. I guess people imagine I spend my life thinking about crazy, sinister things but I don't, really. It's not like I'm trying to exorcise any demons.
~ Michael Shannon
One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
~ John Bunyan
I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.
~ Garret Dillahunt
Like love, destruction can be ecstatic.
~ Mason Cooley
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
I have been told more than once in fact that one of the more trying things about learning to live with the Germans after the war was having to watch them return with their wives and girlfriends to show off the places they had helped to ruin.
~ Bill Bryson
I have been told more than once that one of the more trying things about learning to live with the Germans after the war was having to watch them return with their wives and girlfriends to show off the places they had helped to ruin.
~ Bill Bryson
It's rotten, okay? And once something's rotten, it can never be good again.
~ Brad Meltzer
As a sad, grey dawn broke over the hillside he came upon a ruined cottage [named Broken-Heart Farm] which did not so much seem to have broken its heart, as its neck.
~ Susanna Clarke
I had no idea, she panted, that being ruined could be so invigorating.
~ Suzanne Enoch
And then you came back, you The angel of destruction-just as I felt sure. In a moment, at your touch, there is nothing but ruin.
~ T.S. Eliot
I am the old house With the noxious smell and the sorrow before morning, In which all past is present, all degradation Is unredeemable.
~ T.S. Eliot
To be a 'ruined man' is itself a vocation.
~ T.S. Eliot
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