Ruins Quotes - Page 8

• A kiss may ruin a human life

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Kissing, May

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.164, Penguin

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• The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

  Henry Adams

  Education, Teacher, Retirement

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.56, Booklassic

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• It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.

  Orson Scott Card

  Hurt, Pain, Petra

  Orson Scott Card (2003). “Shadow Puppets”, p.101, Macmillan

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• This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Dignity, Obsession, Ifs

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.219, A&C Black

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• Tally sighed, tipping her feet again to follow. "Maybe that's because they have better stuff to do than kid tricks. Maybe partying in town is better than hanging out in a bunch of old ruins." Shay's eyes flashed. "Or maybe when they do the operation-when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everyone else-maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Party, Kids, Eye

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• Bowman turned his back on her and began to search the place methodically and exhaustively. When one searches any place, be it a gypsy caravan or a baronial mansion, methodically and exhaustively, one has to wreck it completely in the process.So, in a orderly and systematic fashion, Bowman set about reducing Czerda's caravan to a total ruin.

  Alistair Maclean

  Fashion, Wrecks, Systematic

  Alistair MacLean (1974). “Caravan to Vaccarès”

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• Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Thinking, Forever, Gone

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.219, A&C Black

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• I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Order, Secret

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.33, Om Books International

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• Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.

  Saul Bellow

  Heart, Self, Broken

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Viking Adult

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• Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin.

  P. D. James

  Race, Mind, Crumbling

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.21, Vintage

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• It was too bad, but sometimes a little knowledge could ruin your whole day, or at least take off some of the shine.

  Jacqueline Kelly

  Shining, Littles, Sometimes

  Jacqueline Kelly (2009). “The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate”, p.111, Macmillan

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• You can write a book on how to ruin someone’s perfect day.

  Taylor Swift

  Book, Writing, Perfect Days

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• But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.

  Edith Wharton

  Destiny, Together, Half

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.187, Xist Publishing

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• Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Wind, Roots, Tree

  "Jane Eyre". Book by Charlotte Bronte, October 16, 1847.

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• At the most we gaze at it in wonder, a kind of wonder which in itself is a form of dawning horror, for somehow we know by instinct that outsize buildings cast the shadow of their own destruction before them, and are designed from the first with an eye to their later existence as ruins.

  W. G. Sebald

  Eye, Shadow, Firsts

  W. G. Sebald (2013). “Austerlitz”, p.30, Penguin UK

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• For a while Bastian stood motionless. He was so stunned by what he had just heard that he couldn't decide what to do... What he had hoped was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.

  Michael Ende

  Salvation, Heard, Stunned

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• Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn't know this either, but love don't make things nice - it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and *die*. The storybooks are *bullshit*. Now I want you to come upstairs with me and *get* in my bed!

  John Patrick Shanley

  Love, Inspirational, Stars

  "Moonstruck". www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• You're an Apprentice! You're not ready to think!" Gilan and Halt. The Ruins of Gorlan.

  John Flanagan

  Thinking, Halt, Ready

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• You want a happy romantic relationship? Don’t ruin it by getting married.

  Meg Cabot

  Want, Married, Romantic Relationship

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• The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Beautiful, Building, Fundamentalist

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.144, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to whom we entrust our care!

  Rick Yancey

  Design, Adults, Care

  Rick Yancey (2009). “The Monstrumologist”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Here I Am, Dignity, Gorgeous

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

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• Looks like I’m going to ruin your day, Big Boy. I choose to live my crappy life a little longer. (Susan)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Boys, Looks, Littles

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Dark Side of the Moon”, p.75, Macmillan

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• Yes, he’s like a rash for which there’s no cure. It only goes away for a bit before returning unexpectedly to ruin every pleasurable experience. He should have been named Herpes rather than ZT. Or maybe just Herpes Z, since he’s a very special irritant. (Arik)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Should Have, Special, Cures

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “The Dream-Hunter”, p.126, Macmillan

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• Come on, Megeara. Walk on the wild side with me. Let’s get naked and ruin Solin’s upholstery. It serves two purposes. We’re happy and he’s pissed. (Arik)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Two, Wild Side, Naked

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