Ruined Quotes - Page 14

• He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.

  Edith Hamilton

  Far Away, Ruined Life, Outraged

  Edith Hamilton (1969). “Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes”

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• Nothing made sense to me anymore. I knew I was young, I knew I was small. But I was worried that I might already be ruined.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Life, Might, Worried

  Augusten Burroughs (2008). “A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father”, p.17, Macmillan

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• It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t we have committed our first major sin at seven, have ruined ourselves for love or hate at ten, have clutched at redemption on a fifteen-year-old deathbed?

  Graham Greene

  Hate, Men, Years

  Graham Greene (1960). “The Heart of The Matter”

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• I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.

  Wendell Berry

  Beautiful, Thinking, World

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our knowledge is without measure and we build the weapons that will destroy us. We live on the edge of ourselves, terrified of the darkness within. We have harmed, corrupted and ruined, we have made mistakes and deceived.

  John le Carre

  Children, Mistake, Home

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• He kissed back, all the pages spread out around us like riddles waiting to be solved. Let them wait. Let my genes unravel, my hinges come loose. If my fate rests in the hands of a madman, let death come and bring its worse. I'll take the ruined craters of laboratories, the dead trees, this city with ashes in the oxygen, if it means freedom. I'd sooner die here than live a hundred years with wires in my veins.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Mean, Fate, Hands

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• In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself.

  Haruki Murakami

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• It is a ruined-world, a nonsense-place.

  Lauren Oliver

  World, Nonsense

  Lauren Oliver (2012). “Pandemonium”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• I’m not a romantic, I’m a half-wit. Only stupid people would think I’m smart. I’m not something anyone should know. I’m a lunatic wandering around for scraps, I’m like every single miserable moron I’ve scorned and pretended I didn’t recognize. I’m all of them, every last ugly thing in a bad last-minute costume. I’m not different, not at all, not different from any other speck of a thing. I’m a blemished blemish, a ruined ruin, a stained wreck so failed I can’t see what I used to be.

  Daniel Handler

  Smart, Stupid, Thinking

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.196, Egmont UK

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• A man's character is like his house. If he tears boards off his house and burns them to keep himself warm and comfortable, his house soon becomes a ruin. If he tells lies to be able to do the things he shouldn't do but wants to, his character will soon become a ruin. A man with a ruined character is a shame on the face of the earth.

  Ralph Moody

  Lying, Character, Men

  Ralph Moody (1991). “Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers”, p.41, U of Nebraska Press

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• He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, the magic of Oniton under darkness and of the whispering river. Helen loved the absolute. Leonard had been ruined absolutely, and had appeared to her as a man apart, isolated from the world. A real man, who cared for adventure and beauty, who desired to live decently and pay his way, who could have travelled more gloriously through life than the Juggernaut car that was crushing him.

  E. M. Forster

  Crush, Real, Adventure

  E. M. Forster (2016). “Howards End: England Literature”, p.273, 谷月社

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• Before Alaska came along and ruined everything, one of every twenty-five square miles in America was Montanan. This much space has nurtured a healthy Cult of Place in which people find perfection, even divinity in the landscape.

  Ellen Meloy

  Alaska, Squares, America

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• Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

  William Safire

  Media, Choir, Used

  "Channeling" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. September 03, 2009.

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• Life is a blast when you know what you're doin',
  Best to know what you're doin' 'fore your life get ruined.
  Life is a thrill when your skill is developed,
  If you ain't got a skill or trade, then shut the hell up.

  Del tha Funkee Homosapien

  Rap, Skills, Hip Hop

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• Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.

  Alexander Pope

  Arrogance, Quality, Praise

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• ... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and constitution, who alone have the opportunity to bring it good government and prosperity, become a mere sham, then clearly it is completely ruined.

  Plato

  Opportunity, Government, Law

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• Music has completely taken over every aspect of my life and ruined everything.

  Wes Borland

  Taken, Aspect

  "Music ruined Wes Borland's Life, so he's formed a new band", www.mtv.com. November 18, 2005.

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• The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Sometimes, Vocation

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• As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that we are building our houses with broken pieces of sculptures and ruined statues of gods as the barbarians did.

  Bruno Schulz

  Broken, House, Everyday

  Wojciech Chmurzyński, Bruno Schulz, Muzeum Literatury im. Adama Mickiewicza w Warszawie (1995). “Bruno Schulz 1892-1942: katalog-pamiętnik wystawy "Bruno Schulz. Ad memoriam" w Muzeum Literatury im. Adama Mickiewicza w Warszawie”

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• It happens the world over - we love ourselves more than we do the one we say we love. We all want to be Number One, we've got to be Number One or nothing! We can't see that we could make ourselves loved and needed in the Number Two, or Three, or Four spot. No sir, we've got to be Number One, and if we can't make it, we'll rip and tear at the loved one till we've ruined every smidgin of love that was ever there.

  Irene Hunt

  Rip, Two, Numbers

  Irene Hunt (2005). “Up a Road Slowly”, p.29, Penguin

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• At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous deceptions, he had said not a word of these childish maladies, but had sounded those more incurable, more poignant and more profound: wounds that are inflicted by satiety, disillusion and contempt in ruined souls tortured by the present, disgusted with the past, terrified and desperate of the future.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Grief, Past, Profound

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain: (À rebours)”, p.111, BoD – Books on Demand

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• By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Men, People, Chinese

  Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.392

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• Bettman is an asshole. A frikkin asshole. I think he's ruined the game of hockey. He's supposed to be impartial. He's supposed to speak for the good of the league, but in my opinion, he's strictly behind the owners. Those 1996 rule changes are a joke

  Bob Probert

  Hockey, Thinking, Games

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• I worshipped money so much that it ruined my life. Money is not my god. I just want to manage His money for Him, for the poor people, the lost kids. I just love everybody.

  Brian Welch

  Lost Love, Kids, People

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• There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Mean, Differences, Parent

  "Tamara Ecclestone: I'm just a normal girl who happens to be worth £3billion". www.mirror.co.uk. January 9, 2012.

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