Ruins Quotes
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Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I guess. In a way, it's an argument for record collecting.
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Evil thoughts and evil doing, cold, alone, you hang in ruins.
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Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.
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Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin.
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Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.
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Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the severity which breaks hearts and ruins fortunes than of that which falls impotently on the grave.
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If I was made of chocolate I would melt myself in a car to ruin the interior.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.
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What escapes us tears us from ourselves and ruins us. I seek what cannot be sought. I am a miscarried void, the hollowest quest.
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Don't blow smoke up my ass. You'll ruin my autopsy
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But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.
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Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins
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It was like coming home to a place that he held dear and finding that the wood had burnt to the ground and the house was in ruins.
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When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we not also clear the mind - at least that part of it that we can reach - of the ruins of past thinking, before building our palace of dharma which will one day reach the sky.
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If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.
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The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.
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Since Love has made ruins of my heart The sun must come and illumine them. Such generosity has broken me with shame.
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Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.
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Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one.
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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun until we're talking about the nonexistence of God.
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Most humans recognize their ruin, but they carry on regardless.
