Ruins Quotes - Page 10

• Here I am, just wandering down a deserted street in the middle of the night. I hope I don't run into any trouble. Goodness, that would just ruin my whole evening." I strolled and hummed, trying to project Innocent Victim.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Running, Night, Here I Am

  MaryJanice Davidson (2010). “Undead And Unwed: Number 1 in series”, p.183, Hachette UK

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• I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Enemy, Mountain, Sides

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.347, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• "But please, when you see an opportunity..." He presses his hand to my cheek, cold and strong, and tilts my head up so I have to look at him. His eyes glint. They almost look predatory. "Ruin them."

  Veronica Roth

  Strong, Eye, Opportunity

  "Divergent". Book by Veronica Roth, April 25, 2011.

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• We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon some one who never lived at all.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sacrifice, Hatred, Humanity

  "Orthodoxy". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Chapter VIII. "The Romances of Orthodoxy", 1908.

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• The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I'm not kidding

  J. D. Salinger

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).

  Alain de Botton

  Museums, Secular Society, Ideas

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• Imagine there was a cure, but finding it would cost you everything. It would completely ruin your life. What would you do?

  Marissa Meyer

  Cost, Imagine, Cures

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• It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.

  Anton Chekhov

  Scandal

  Anton Chekhov (2015). “Greatest Works of Anton Chekhov: Plays, Short Stories, Novel and A Biography (Including The Steppe, Ward No. 6, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, On Trial, The Darling, The Bet, Vanka, After the Theatre and many more)”, p.297, e-artnow

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• With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Mean, Men, Land

  William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books

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• ...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.

  Ted Dekker

  Strong, Men, Yield

  Ted Dekker (2009). “Complete Circle Series: Hardcover Box Set: Box Set”, p.603, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• She asks if I left a girlfriend behind when we moved. I say no, and she smiles, which just about ruins me.

  Pittacus Lore

  Girlfriend, Behinds, Moved

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• One can never be sure,” the Green Wind sighed. “There is always the danger of kisses where sleeping maids are concerned. But you are safe now, and for awhile yet, and why worry about a thing that may never come to pass? Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Sleep, Kissing, Wind

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.273, Macmillan

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• Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

  Don DeLillo

  Scales, Persistent, Large Scale

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.165, Pan Macmillan

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• You can still function as a living ruin.

  Henry Rollins

  Function, Stills

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• Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will befall them?' 'Good heavens, Poirot,' I cried, 'this is a matter of life and death. What does it matter what happens to our clothes?' 'You have no sense of proportion Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder.

  Agatha Christie

  Hands, Clothes, Life And Death

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• A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and sometimes even the whole village." "Do you then have to kill yourself over it or something?" "Goodness me, no! The family and village just have to learn to be ashamed--and nuts to them for being so oversensitive.

  Jasper Fforde

  Nuts, Missing, Arms

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• I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon, In the round-tower of my heart, And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in the dust away!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Heart, Dust

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1992). “Favorite Poems”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Voice, Calling, World

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.571, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Welcome, Ruin said, to godhood.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Welcome, Said

  Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.664, Macmillan

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• All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Order, Mystery, Rage

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.153, Pan Macmillan

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• Here ends the SILMARILLION. If it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that was of old the fate of Arda Marred; and if any change shall come and the Marring be amended, Manwë and Varda may know; but they have not revealed it, and it is not declared in the dooms of Mandos.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Fate, Darkness

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• I'm still kind of a mess. But I think we all are. No one's got it all together. I don't think you ever do get it totally together. Probably if you did manage to do it you'd spontaneously combust. I think that's a law of nature. If you ever manage to become perfect, you have to die instantly before you ruin things for everyone else.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Thinking, Law, Perfect

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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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• Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.

  Ann Brashares

  Today, Someday, Harder

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.70, Penguin

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