136 Quotes About Ruin


  • Author Liz Newman
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    Of Ruin and RenewalWe are soulsOf ruin and renewalSorting through the rubbleOf our painful past.We are soulsOf ruin and renewalWaiting for the dustTo settle at lastWe are soulsOf ruin and renewalSearching for eyes that see usAnd walk through the debrisWe are soulsOf ruin and renewal,We rebuild, we revive,We repurpose our own story.

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  • Author Jonathan Barnes
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    The city defeated him. It refused to be bent into shape; it stayed a willful, sprawling, sinful place. It even told him as much. When he walked through the gutted wreck of old Saint Paul's, he tripped and fell over a piece of rubble -- a tombstone. When he got to his feet and dusted himself down he saw that it read, in Latin, 'Resurgam' -- 'I Will Rise Again.

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  • Author Homer
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    Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.

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