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Quotes About Ruined

Weird that a house so new could feel haunted, and not in the romantic Victorian-novel way, just really gruesomely, shittily ruined.
~ Gillian Flynn
With lawyers breeding lawsuits faster than maggots in dead flesh, a new pestilence had taken over the country, a fifth horseman of the American apocalypse: Litigation, the paper death by which the victim hemorrhaged his assets until both reputation and finances were ruined. Frequently even the vaccine of insurance was not a sufficient preventative. Cover Your Ass had replaced E Pluribus Unum as the national motto.
~ Gregg Loomis
'Twilight' has ruined me. When this is all over, flying internationally is going to be very hard for me. It is just not worth it to buy a first-class ticket, because of the cost.
~ Ashley Greene
Gods work! Silence so great it hurts your ears, colour so bright it hurts your staring eyes. A vicious ruined class of man could cry at such scenes because it seems to tell him that his life is not approved. The remnant of innocence burns in his breast like a ember of the very sun.
~ Sebastian Barry
if she wanted to change into them. 'I guess this dress is ruined.' Bernice looked
~ Sheila O'Flanagan
And so Henry's resolve to leave, to disappear somewhere far away from this life that she had ruined so thoroughly, was hardened.
~ Mary Balogh
He was a scary one, no doubt about it. And not just the ruined face. Even without the scarring, I would have recognized him. He exuded the same deadly air I had known, and respected, in Crazy Jake. The external scars were the least of what marked him for what he was.
~ Barry Eisler
Youth, hope, and love: To build a new life on a ruined life, To make the future fairer than the past, And make the past appear a troubled dream.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.
~ Joseph Lancaster
My former home, the monarchy, was a large house with many doors and many rooms for many different kinds of people. This house has been divided, broken up, ruined. I have no business with what is there now. I am used to living in a house, not in cabins.
~ Joseph Roth
humans were still just a bunch of bipedal apes, divided into arbitrary tribes that were constantly at war over their ruined planet's dwindling natural resources.
~ Ernest Cline
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
~ Ernest Dimnet
He hates me now. She watched the viewscreen, seeing the distant stars rush past as the vast, sleek form of the Mother ship grew closer. He'd rather endure horrible pain than feel anything at all for me. But who could blame him? After all, it wasn't as though she was some kind of prize. Emotionally damaged, that's what I am. What happened with Burke, what he did to me, ruined everything. Everything. She
~ Evangeline Anderson
Saddam Hussein was the one person after whom the United States went, and they ruined the country.
~ Sergei Lavrov
Carpenter: "Call Shen Te, someone! She's good!" Shui Ta: "Certainly. She's ruined.
~ Bertolt Brecht
All creation is really a re-creation of a once loved and once whole, but now lost and ruined object, a ruined internal world and self. It is when the world within us is destroyed, when it is dead and loveless, when our loved ones are in fragments, and we ourselves in helpless despair—it is then that we must re-create our world anew, reassemble the pieces, infuse life into dead fragments, re- create life.
~ Hanna Segal
It goes to establish a just and permanent principle of trade which puts an end to all serious fluctuations in prices and consequently, to all the insecurity and ruin which these fluctuations produce; and to build up those who are already ruined.
~ Josiah Warren
Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
~ Fanny Burney
Those left behind sometimes try and stop loving- but this is a mistake, because even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined.
~ Simon Van Booy
and the bananas are overdone.
~ Simone Elkeles
And my life went to pieces, like a love letter in the rain.
~ Will Christopher Baer
The chicken is a little dry and/or you've ruined my life.
~ Ben Lerner
That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!
~ Harry Nilsson
It was long before the terror of recent events subsided; and to this hour the image of Carmilla returns to memory with ambiguous alternations—sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church; and often from a reverie I have started, fancying I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing room door.
~ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu