Quotes About Ruin

I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

it seemed to me that he had learned not only to destroy what was left behind, but also to poison what was to come.

He said that even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering and he thought that he'd guessed out likewise for the living a nominal grief like a grange from which disaster and ruin are proportioned by laws of equity too subtle for divining.

The incinerate corpses shrunk to the size of a child and propped on the bare springs of the seats. Ten thousand dreams ensepulchred within their crozzled hearts.

The man could hear him playing. A formless music for the age to come. Or perhaps the last music on earth called up from out of the ashes of its ruin.

Out of that whirlwind no voice spoke and the pilgrim lying in his broken bones may cry out and in his anguish he may rage, but rage at what? And if the dried and blackened shell of him is found among the sands by travelers to come yet who can discover the engine of his ruin?

And if the dried and blackened shell of him is found among the sands by travelers to come yet who can discover the engine of his ruin?

Art?k hiçbir insan ve doÄŸa yasas? kalmam??t?. Y?k?l?p gitmiÅŸti dünya.

a temple was never perfectly a temple, till it was ruined and mixed up with the winds and the sky and the herbs.

She was the flint and he the steel. But in continual striking together they only destroyed each other.

As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction

Oh, I've no patience with these romances. They're the ruin of all order. It's a thousand pities they ever happened

A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.

I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.

Through my history's despite and ruin, I have come to its remainder, and here have made the beginning of a farm intended to become my art of being here. By it I would instruct my wants: they should belong to each other and to this place. Until my song comes here to learn its words, my art is but the hope of song. (Part 2 from History is Clearing, p 174)

They're beautiful hands," he said; "though they've ruined the world, they're beautiful hands.

What our generation failed to learn was the nobility of work. An honest day's labor. The worthiness of the man in the white socks who would pull out a picture of his grandkids from his wallet. For us, the factory would never do. And turning away from our birthright—our grandfather in the white socks—is the thing that ruined us.

If there were a ruin associated with Vlad Dracula near Oradea, the Rumanian Tourist Bureau would have been exploiting it already. Then he found a notation in an archeological guide that near the border—near Oradea but in Transylvania—was a site designated by the Rumanian government as a historical edifice not open to tourists. The exact words, expressed with the unintentional humor so characteristic of communist bureaucracies, were that the site was an "unauthorized ruin.

What we love will either take us to greatness or to ruin

quote Euripides: "Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.")

Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.

Three things ruin a man power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.

Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.