Ruins Quotes - Page 16

• It's not bad enough I am exiled? It's not bad enough you take away the few good heroes I'm allowed to meet? You think it's funny to send me this this ― this charbroiled runt of a boy to ruin my tranquility? This is NOT FUNNY! Take him back!

  Rick Riordan

  Hero, Boys, Thinking

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• What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?

  Donna Tartt

  Beautiful, Strong, Responsibility

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• Ruin has taught me to ruminate,
  That Time will come and take my love away.
  This thought is as a death, which cannot choose
  But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Taught, Loses

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.928

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• I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.

  James Joyce

  Time, Glasses, Flames

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.229, Delphi Classics

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• Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.

  James Joyce

  Time, Eternity, Mansions

  James Joyce, Jeri Johnson (2008). “Ulysses”, p.910, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime, Because all died, because I had to die. The snow fell, the trees stood, the promise kept, And a child I slept.

  Howard Nemerov

  Time, Children, War

  1960 New Poems,'The View from an Attic Window'.

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• For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered isgrief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Time, Spring, Flower

  Atalanta in Calydon chorus (1865)

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• Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time.

  Bob Dylan

  Time, Mind, Disappear

  'Mr Tambourine Man' (1964 song)

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• The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Luxury, Aristocracy, Chivalry

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1831). “The poetical works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats”, p.387

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• Sadly, if we are not confident about our choices, we can easily let other peoples' comments make us feel guilty and ruin the joy we need to experience in life through doing the little things that mean a lot to us.

  Joyce Meyer

  Confidence, Mean, Choices

  Joyce Meyer (2010). “Eat the Cookie...Buy the Shoes: Giving Yourself Permission to Lighten Up”, p.4, Hachette UK

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• It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Mistake, Teaching

  Albert Einstein (2008). “The Essential Einstein: His Greatest Works”, Penguin Group(CA)

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• False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Freedom, Political, Democracy

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• Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

  Charles Simmons

  Future, Today, Anticipation

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• The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the faster it proceeds, with the more violence will you be hurried down the road to ruin.

  Robert Southey

  Intelligence, Progress, Violence

  Robert Southey (1829). “Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the progress and prospects of society”, p.361

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• Upon your shattered ruins where, This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Life, Vines, Old Love

  "Pan-Worship: And Other Poems (Time And Love)". Book by Eleanor Farjeon, 1908.

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• Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme?
  Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,
  By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

  George Crabbe

  Poetry, Myrtle, Bread

  George Crabbe, “The VILLage: Book I”

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• I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hate, People, Politics

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.100

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• In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence under no circumstances can it be neglected.

  Sun Tzu

  Strength, Art, Peace

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• Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life's recollections.

  Augustus Hare

  Nature, Travel, Church

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• Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

  Fanny Burney

  Travel, Building, Seeing

  Cecilia bk. 4, ch. 2 (1782)

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• The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Work, Interest, Divided

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• Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

  James A. Baldwin

  Happiness, Lying, Discipline

  The Paris Review Interview (Issues 91-94, p. 77), 1984.

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• Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

  Scott McNealy

  Business, Giving, Study

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• I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Mind, Acting

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

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• In Germany it is good if as many people as possible join initiatives and peaceful demonstrations against the rule of the financial markets. Worshipping the unfettered freedom of global markets has brought the world to the brink of ruin. We now need social and ecological rules for the market economy.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  People, Peaceful, Germany

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