Quotes About Ruins

Postcards of landscapes, panoramas of old ruins, postcards ambitiously prepared so as to show as much as possible on that flat space, are slowly being replaced by photographs focusing on details. This is no doubt a good idea, because they relieve tired minds. There is too much world, so it's better to concentrate on particulars, rather than the whole.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Now there are fields of corn where Troy once was.

Rumor forces us to act before we are ready, or ruins a situation before it becomes fully ripe.

It would take a while before the postmodern Narcissus perceived the ruins of society behind the emptiness of his mirror.

The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and LUXURY is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that once belived they were eternal.

The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.

Immediately across the road is a ruined abbey and cemetery. As I haven't visited one since late yesterday afternoon, I decide to take a look. On the whole, it's fair to say that, if you're travelling round the west of Ireland, an interest in ruined abbeys, however slight, will stand you in better stead than a passion for rollerblading, say or a penchant for showbiz gossip.

They ... know from experience better than almost any other nation on earth how transient are material achievements and pomp and glory. ... the New Order pointed to the ruins of Persepolis as reminders of what Iran had once been and must strive to be again. The Iranian people also see in those ruins a monument to the vanity of human success.

He could leave the land in ruins and remain beloved. He had made history. He was the end of history.

Pharaohís officials asked him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the LORD their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is in ruins?”

And you are to gather all its plunder in the middle of the public square, and completely burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. The city must remain a mound of ruins forever, never to be rebuilt.

So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.

and replied to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should I not be sad when the city where my fathers are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”

with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,

he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.

They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.

Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed.

This is the burden against Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins.

In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken thickets and summits, abandoned to the Israelites and to utter desolation.

The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.

who confirms the message of His servant and fulfills the counsel of His messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ëShe will be inhabited,í and of the cities of Judah, ëThey will be rebuilt, and I will restore their ruins,í

Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.