Ruins Quotes
A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.
Love among the ruins... I'll tell you something, my friend: Weird love's better than no love at all.
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.
Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure buried in the ruin.
The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.
The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.
To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.
Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom!
Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.
There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.
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.
Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins
Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the capacity of their environments to sustain them.
He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin.
Imagine there was a cure, but finding it would cost you everything. It would completely ruin your life. What would you do?
My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with.
Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.
Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...!
And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.
Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old.
The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.
From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.
Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife.
Don't talk to me about people who are 'nice' cause I have spent my whole life in ruins because of people who are 'nice'.
We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.
Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform.
