Ruined Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.

  Mona Simpson

  People, Parent, Drug

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• I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but it broke my heart and ruined my self-esteem.

  Kelly Osbourne

  Self Esteem, Heart, Ugly

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• There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

  Ted Rall

  Tradition, Source, Blair

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• Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You'll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I've ever been with another woman.

  Carol Vorderman

  Careers, Watches, Rubies

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• Beauty is a fairy; sometimes she hides herself in a flower-cup, or under a leaf, or creeps into the old ivy, and plays hide-and-seek with the sunbeams, or haunts some ruined spot, or laughs out of a bright young face.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Flower, Play, Ivy

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• Forget purpose. It’s okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.

  James Altucher

  Purpose, Quests, Forget

  FaceBook post by James Altucher from Jul 29, 2016

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• Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Lust, Fortune

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.153

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• What else remains for me? Youth, hope and love; To build a new life on a ruined life.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  And Love, New Life, Youth

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.821, Jazzybee Verlag

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• And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising our of a grassy and weed-grown cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer--apples that are bitter-sweet with the moral of times vicissitude.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Weed, Sweet, Apples

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2012). “Mosses from an Old Manse”, p.6, Lulu.com

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• Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.

  Ben Okri

  Artist, Broken, Enemy

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• It is often said that the modern exhibition has ruined painting. It is an unfortunate fact that it does encourage competition, so that, to attract attention to his work, an artist is tempted to descend to sensationalism, whether it is expressed by strong colour, grotesque handling, unusual subject, or sheer size.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Strong, Artist, Competition

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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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• Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.

  Ellen Gilchrist

  Past, Ruins

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• All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Faith, Fall, Single Word

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• H. L Mencken's Dictionary of the American Language supplies a long list of slang terms for being drunk, but the Irish are no slouches, either. They're spannered, rat-arsed, cabbaged, and hammered; ruined, legless, scorched, and blottoed; or simply trolleyed or sloshed. In Kerry, you're said to be flamin'; in Waterford, you're in the horrors; and in Cavan, you've gone baloobas, a tough one to wrap your tongue around if you ARE baloobas. In Donegal, you're steamin', while the afflicted in Limerick are out of their tree.

  Bill Barich

  Long, Drunk, Tree

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• The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced.

  Robert Toombs

  Army, Virginia, Soldier

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• The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Suicide, Loss, Gambling

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.108

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• A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Summer, Wild Roses, Roof

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.283

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