Quotes About Ruin

He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.

Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.

Pillars are fallen at thy feet Fanes quiver in the air A prostrate city is thy seat And thou alone art there.

Google is the enemy. I would tell that to anyone who enjoys any TV show like 'Game of Thrones' to avoid it; it spoils so many storylines.

The war has ruined us for everything.

His mind could fixate on a problem like that — anything, really — and not let go. As if controlling one element of his world would keep him from ruin. It was a bad habit that blinded him to other things that could harm him. A tendency towards obsession was hardwired into his brain and would likely be his undoing if he couldn't learn to outsmart it.

As if controlling one element of his world would keep him from ruin. It was a bad habit that blinded him to other things that could harm him.

Como si controlar un elemento de su mundo lo salvara de la ruina.

The abandonment came, and now this shabby bacchanal.

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.

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

What a man loves may be his ruin, but what a man ruins he can never truly love.

If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?

Antifragile shows how people confuse risk of ruin with variations and fluctuations—a simplification that violates a deeper, more rigorous logic of things.

Risk and ruin are different tings.

One may be risk loving yet completely averse to ruin. The central asymmetry of life is: In a strategy that entails ruin, benefits never offset risks of ruin. Further: Ruin and other changes in condition are different animals. Every single risk you take adds up to reduce your life expectancy. Finally: Rationality is avoidance of systemic ruin.

You are partly crazy, and partly imbecile; a ruin, a failure, as almost everybody is,--though some in less degree, or less perceptibly, than their fellows.

What can a ruined soul, like mine, effect towards the redemption of other souls??—or a polluted soul towards their purification?

Why dost thou smile so at me?" inquired Hester, troubled at the expression of his eyes. "Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the forest round about us? Hast thou enticed me into a bond that will prove the ruin of my soul?" "Not thy soul," he answered, with another smile. "No, not thine!

Mary believes she was put on earth to bring an end to the living world." Both Nick and Mikey just stared at her. "What do you mean … end?" asked Mikey. "End means end. Complete and total destruction. She wants to kill everyone and everything. She wants to bring down every building, burn every forest, empty every ocean of life. She wants to turn the earth into a dead planet …

The building was no warmer than the street outside, and it smelled like something died in there from smelling something else that died in there.

There lay but the sweetness that charms, and the joy that destroys.

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

and gamblers are dry and empty souls, their hearts have been sucked dry, there's no music in their walk, they are colorless and condemned.