256 Quotes About Ruins



  • Author Mehmet Murat ildan
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    States have collapsed, empires have disappeared, epochs ended, new eras have begun, but the Egyptian Pyramids are still standing! Why? Because those who built these pyramids had an endless desire to become a permanent part of eternity!

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  • Author Mehmet Murat ildan
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    You must respect all the ruins you met - these stubborn and mysterious visitors of ancient times - because they are still with us with wisdom-loaded messages from the distant past!

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  • Author Mehmet Murat ildan
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    Strangely, an ancient ruin warms you while you feel cold looking at a modern building! Why? Because the past had a soul, it had an idealism; it had an aesthetics and a grace!

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  • Author David Levithan
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    Elijah is inexplicably moved by the broken columns and fragmented floors. He cannot help but find a meaning and a message in their poverty of stature. This is what remains, he thinks. It seems a valuable lesson on a day when card catalogs are dying, communications are deleted, and buildings crumble under the weight of society’s expectations.

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  • Author Mehmet Murat ildan
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    Something always attracts us towards the ruins, because ruins remind us our fundamental problem: The problem of impermanence! Amongst the ruins we see the very end of our road! Whatever shows you the simple truth, it is your Master Teacher; whoever repeatedly recalls you of the plain truth, he is your good master!

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