Quotes about Ruins

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There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out. — Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess
Thank God who gave us relief from ruins of suffering. — Lailah Gifty Akita
Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes — Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Advice for a Young Investigator
The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and e — Scott Westerfeld, Uglies
What I keep in secret, it makes you to get closer as fast you get to the secret and you reveal it. You don't have anymor — Deyth Banger
Smoke curls among the ruins of East London. Many of the buildings have burned to the ground or split like exploded rocks — John Owen Theobald, These Dark Wings
The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factu — Rose Macaulay, The Pleasure of Ruins
Split the Lark—and you'll find the Music, Bulb after Bulb, in Silver rolled. — Emily Dickinson
The clock had been Sylvie's, and her mother's before that. It had gone to Ursula on Sylvie's death and Ursula had left i — Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins
It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will s — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
You will never really get, how really everything works in my world. How the colour of the sky changes every now and then — Akshay Vasu
You can't stop a soldier from being frightened but you can give him motivation to help him overcome that fear. I have no — Andrzej Sapkowski, Krew elfów
The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellence, mindless of the fact he is admiring th — William Stolzenburg, Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
And with a massive roar the fifth wall comes down and the house of fiction falls, taking Viola and Sunny and Bertie with — Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins
Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings – — Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice
Elijah is inexplicably moved by the broken columns and fragmented floors. He cannot help but find a meaning and a messag — David Levithan, Are We There Yet?
Everything will turn into a ruin, even your beliefs will turn into a ruin! There will be no more believers from your bel — Mehmet Murat ildan
Zoe let the poetry flow over her, like shadows on water, sunlight against stone: timeworn words shaped like stars, like — Christine Brodien-Jones, The Glass Puzzle
During the war, I promised the dead I would never forget them. I stared at them, barely able to move myself. Pretended I — Chris Bohjalian, The Light in the Ruins
I have emotions
that are like newspapers that
read themselves.I go for days at a time
trapped in the want ads.I feel as — Richard Brautigan, Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970