Ruins Quotes
With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You existed.
Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.
The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.
Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.
It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.
Though we often see life troughs as the universe's conspiracy to ruin us, they're actually our own true nature inviting us to lay down our weary heads.
Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!
What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.
The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.
...you can't let something that'll probably never happen ruin your life. You're only helping to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy
Since Love has made ruins of my heart The sun must come and illumine them. Such generosity has broken me with shame.
I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy.
Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it?
So the life I have made May seem wrong to you But, I've never been surer It's my life to ruin My own way.
If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.
The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and everyone was incredibly stupid. And ugly.
European Christianity has allowed itself to be intimately united with the powers of this world. Now that these powers are falling, it is as if it were buried under their ruins.
For winter's rains and ruins are over... And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins.
A lot of people, they've been saying to me, oh don't get married. It ruins everything. And I'm like, damn.
RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.
A long war is degenerating - it ruins the mind and the soul and psyche of individuals and nations.
If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.
In the wealthiest nation on Earth – no illness or accident should lead to any family’s financial ruin.
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
The US is headed for ruin and revolution. The revolution will almost certainly be put down, violently. But the ruin cannot be stopped.
My soul is lost, my friend, tell me how do I begin again? My city's in ruins, my city's in ruins.
It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.
