Quotes About Ruin

Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities, the note concludes. This is surely true. Yet the vivacity with which he embraces ruin is unexampled, in my experience.

What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can't be trusted —? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?

nothing will ever allow them to find rest except submission to the old doctrines of man's ruin and Christ's redemption – and simple childlike faith in Jesus.

Remember that a man may be mistaken on this subject, but yet be a holy child of God. It is not the slumbering on this subject that ruins souls, but the lack of grace! Above all, avoid dogmatism and overconfidence, especially when dealing with symbolic prophecy. It is a sad truth, but a truth never to be forgotten, that none have injured the doctrine of the second coming more than its overzealous friends.

Traditional American handicraft was employed in the wall's construction, and so most of it had collapsed.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

A collision at sea can ruin your entire day.

dilapidated grandeur of St. Petersburg,

As long as we see abusers as victims, or as out-of-control monsters, they will continue getting away with ruining lives. If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up the luxury of exploitation.

Nothing is left to us of the peace and prosperity of our ancestors except the crimes that have ruined that prosperity.

Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not been spoken by the common man in centuries, he had all about him the ruin of language, evidence of toppled suburbs, grass growing among the mosaics, and voices that had been choked with poison, iron, age, or ash.

But we glared into each other's eyes like men who have ruined each other already, and who only wait to make the full disaster known

A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.

Utter ruin provokes soul-searching in even the least reflective of men.

No one would remember his glory, or his honesty, or his beauty; all his gold would be turned to ashes and ruin.

gale of last November had brought down some

The Old Provost's Lodging had been razed to its foundation. All that remained was a pile of rubble.

We would note that ruins don't change a lot: what capacity for change is in a ruin has usually been exhausted in the considerable process of change undergone in order for the ruin to become a ruin. Once becoming a ruin, a ruin stays pretty much the same.

Trouble was, when you refused to learn, the result was what surrounded the rumbling wagon: soured earth; abandoned homes; imperiled lives. Ruin.

My misery was too deep to speak any more. I scanned the page; I was having trouble breathing, as though the oxygen were leaving the room. Amid its devastation my mind flashed from thought to thought, despairingly in search of something left which it could rely on. Not rely on absolutely, that was obliterated as a possibility, just rely on a little,some solace, something surviving in the ruin.

The goal of all learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents.

One of the deadliest poisons a person can consume in their lifetime is the poison of jealousy. Jealousy opens flood gate of self destruction.

Over-thinking ruins you, ruins the situation, twists things around, makes you worry and makes everything worse than it actually is.