Ruins Quotes
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Don't blow smoke up my ass. You'll ruin my autopsy
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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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Evil thoughts and evil doing, cold, alone, you hang in ruins.
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Bolshevism turns flourishing countryside into sinister wastes of ruins; National Socialism transforms a Reich of destruction and misery into a healthy state with a flourishing economic life.
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If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.
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Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.
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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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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.
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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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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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Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one.
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Most humans recognize their ruin, but they carry on regardless.
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The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.
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Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins
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You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.
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For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him.
