136 Quotes About Ruin

Mind, what art thou? Dost thou notHold the vast earth for thy lot?In thy toil, how glorious.What dost thou achieve for us,Over all victorious!Godlike thou dost seem.But they perishing still lurksIn thy most immortal works;Thou dost build thy home on sand,And the palace-girdled streamFadeth like a dream.Thy great victories only showAll is nothingness below.

Expect while reaching for the stars, people to whirl by with their dark clouds and storm upon you.

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

My new favorite title is How Jane Austen Ruined My Life. I don't have the courage to read it, though. I'm afraid to discover she's ruined mine as well.

The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.

But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin?

There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success.

If you do not love something, then it does not belong to you. For it wont be long, before you destroy that something, exactly because, you do not love it.-

Words will only ruin you, if you allow them.