Top 525 Ruins Quotes & Sayings

Defect in one's limb ruins a man.

We come from ruins, but we're not ruined.

Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.

I detest war; it ruins conversation

Idleness ruins the constitution

The very utterness of the crash and ruin, the desperation of the case, might be its hope. On ruins one can begin to build. Anyhow, looking out from ruins one clearly sees; there are no obstructing walls.

My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.

In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.

You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.

These fragments I have shored against my ruins

Think about what happens when architecture becomes ruins. All you have left are some little columns on a cliff, but it's still such an overwhelming experience that you could say architecture is that which makes ruins beautiful.

One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.

Like all good ruins, I look better by moonlight.

The ruins of time build mansions in eternity.

There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is, perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of moors, the skeleton of ruins; life and movement are so stagnant there that a stranger might think them uninhabited, were it not that he encounters suddenly the pale, cold glance of a motionless person, whose half-monastic face peers beyond the window-casing at the sound of an unaccustomed step.

The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable.

The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.

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

I fervently believe that people shouldn't stay in bad relationships just because of some artificial rom-com notion of true love being "forever." In fact, I think that the pressure of conforming to that framework ruins-literally RUINS-a lot of people's lives.

Restraint never ruins one's health.

When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

My films have a lot of historical context; I'm a huge fan of ruins. You see a lot of ruin work in my movies, I like ruins.

We live ruins amid ruins.

Ruins are ideal: the perceiver's attitudes count so heavily that one is tempted to say ruins are a way of seeing.

It is useless to live on burned ruins.

I think the scariest addiction on this planet is to alcohol. Because alcohol is a very addictive drug, and it ruins families, it ruins relationships. And it is socially acceptable, and it is easy to find. Controlled substances, other drugs are more difficult to get, and it's a crime to... to buy them. But alcohol is everywhere. And if you are unfortunate enough to become addicted to it, it can be disastrous. And there is still a stigma attached to alcohol addiction, or addiction in general. It is perceived as... an addict is perceived as somebody of weak moral fiber

What cities, as great as this, have... promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders over the awful ruins of others... Here stood their citadel, but now grown over with weeds; there their senate-house, but now the haunt of every noxious reptile; temples and theatres stood here, now only an undistinguished heap of ruins.

How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?

The chemistry of mind is different from the chemistry of love. The mind is careful, suspicious, he advances little by little. He advises “Be careful, protect yourself” Whereas love says “Let yourself, go!” The mind is strong, never falls down, while love hurts itself, falls into ruins. But isn’t it in ruins that we mostly find the treasures? A broken heart hides so many treasures.

Patriotism ruins history.

As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.

Politics ruins the character.

Trample not on the ruins of a man.

Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins

Every reformation ruins somebody.

There's nothing as dear as the sight of ruins.

Despair ruins some, presumption many.

... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh down the earth, the tower of Babel has pierced the sky, the lovely temples and the gray castles have fallen into ruins. But of all those things which hands have built, what hasn’t fallen nor ever will fall? Dear friends, throw away the trowel and mortarboard! Throw your masons’ aprons over your heads and lie down to build dreams! What are temples of stone and clay to the soul? Learn to build eternal mansions of dreams and visions!

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.

We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

That's what the majority of people in the world do, they walk among the ruins of their life. Things that didn't work out, relationships that went sour, jobs that disappeared. All they can think about is their ruins, and when you focus on that you can't build a new you.

Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.

My soul is lost, my friend, tell me how do I begin again? My city's in ruins, my city's in ruins.

I'm fascinated by the ruins and remains of industrialisation.

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.

Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.

Plunder is morally wrong. It ruins your credibility.

Bad company ruins good morals.

The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.

We moralize among ruins.

Failure either ruins you, or turns you into the man you can become.

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

It would be wrong to see the re-making of Asia, much less India,as a revolt against the West. Asia has indeed been re-built on the ruins of colonialism, but not on the ruins of all that the West has come to represent.

Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.

A man is a god in ruins.

Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.