60 Quotes About Ruin

Is a self help or personal development book ruining your life? Ken Poirot

Time was the most precious thing in the world to me, and I’d just given her all of it. Because I was falling for her. Because I cared for her. Because I wanted to give her something to remember me by, even if it would eventually fade like its namesake. Time… what an absolute horror-inducing word Rachel Van Dyken

I know who you are, ” he says. Something about his tone causes my heart of smoke to flicker in response, and I throw my guard up. “Oh? And who, O boy of Parthenia, am I?”He nods to himself, his eyes alight. “You’re her. You’re that jinni. Oh, gods. Oh, great bleeding gods! You’re the one who started the war! ”“ Excuse me?”“ You’re the jinni who betrayed that famous queen–what was her name? Roshana? She was trying to bring peace between the jinn and the humans, but you turned on her and started the Five Hundred Wars.”I turn cold. I want him to stop, but he doesn’t.“ I’ve heard the stories, ” he says. “I’ve heard the songs. They call you the Fair Betrayer, who enchanted humans with your . .” He pauses to swallow. “Your beauty. You promised them everything, and then you ruined them. . Jessica Khoury

For all these stars, nothing is new. They’ve seen all kinds of warsand miracles, too. They know the messengers with their holy bookswill smile and wash their hands in blood. They know the politicians with their good lookswill make the poor eat pies of mud. They’ve seen the Earth freeze and then burn with greed. They’ve seen the treesand the seas emptied. Yet, you won’t hear their sneerswhen a man arrivesand, having experienced a number of years, proclaims: 'I have lived! ' Because nothing is new under these stars:the lies, the love, the memories and scars, the ruin, the revolution, the fakes and true, the families, the friends, none of it is new. All of it–even the me and you. Kamand Kojouri

Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. Edward Abbey

This choreography of ruin, the world breakinglike glass under a microscope, the way it doesn’t crack all at once, but spreads out from the damaged cavities. Still for a moment it all recedes. The backyard potatoes swell quietlyburied beneath their canopy of leaves. The wind rubs its hands through the trees. Ellen Bass

Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed. Suzy Kassem

Rebellion leads to ruin. Lailah Gifty Akita

When a fine old carpet is eaten by mice, the colors and patterns of what's left behind do not change, ' wrote my neighbor and friend, the poet Jane Hirschfield, after she visited an old friend suffering from Alzheimer's disease in a nursing home. And so it was with my father. His mind did not melt evenly into undistinguishable lumps, like a dissolving sand castle. It was ravaged selectively, like Tintern Abbey, the Cistercian monastery in northern Wales suppressed in 1531 by King Henry VIII in his split with the Church of Rome. Tintern was turned over to a nobleman, its stained-glass windows smashed, its roof tiles taken up and relaid in village houses. Holy artifacts were sold to passing tourists. Religious statues turned up in nearby gardens. At least one interior wall was dismantled to build a pigsty. I've seen photographs of the remains that inspired Wordsworth: a Gothic skeleton, soaring and roofless, in a green hilly landscape. Grass grows in the transept. The vanished roof lets in light. The delicate stone tracery of its slim, arched quatrefoil windows opens onto green pastures where black-and-white cows graze. Its shape is beautiful, formal, and mysterious. After he developed dementia, my father was no longer useful to anybody. But in the shelter of his broken walls, my mother learned to balance her checkbook, and my heart melted and opened. Never would I wish upon my father the misery of his final years. But he was sacred in his ruin, and I took from it the shards that still sustain me. Katy Butler

Be Like Lightning Which Has The Power To Animate Or Destroy Life.... It's Up To You Which Side You Wanna Take.... Muhammad Imran Hasan

The Words 2012, one world is ruin and one new world is build. One twisted pictures, one couple which loved each other... just their relationship dies... And another person just steal somebody's life and then he finds the truth... Deyth Banger

You can't stop a soldier from being frightened but you can give him motivation to help him overcome that fear. I have no such motivation. I can't have. I'm a witcher: an artificially created mutant. I kill monsters for money. I defend children when their parents pay me to. If Nilfgaardian parents pay me, I'll defend Nilfgaardian children. And even if the world lies in ruin - which does not seem likely to me - I'll carry on killing monsters in the ruins of this world until some monster kills me. That is my fate, my reason, my life and my attitude to the world. And it is not what I chose. It was chosen for me. Andrzej Sapkowski

Come to me. Why must you ruin this moment? You are burdened with thought. Burdened with the pastand expectations of the future. You are burdened with your self. Cast these aside by laughing at yourself. And love, for what more is there than to love me? Take me nowand let it be heaven for us. Kamand Kojouri

Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings — Simona Panova

Every irrational and unscientific belief will ruin your life! Your own wrong belief will be your own tragic punishment! Mehmet Murat Ildan

Everything will turn into a ruin, even your beliefs will turn into a ruin! There will be no more believers from your belief, there will be only the viewers around your belief, watching this belief of once upon a time, and now just a ruin! Mehmet Murat Ildan

Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall. Michael Bassey Johnson

They cannot hurt you; their active participation, the enthusiasm in their willingness to try, proves their natural affinity and disposition to ruin, chaos, and sabotage. Some do not learn you to earn you, they learn you to burn you. Unknown

…and they limp and halt, they’re all wrinkled, drawn, they squint to the side, can’t look you in the eyes, and always bent on duty, trudging after Ruin, maddening, blinding Ruin. But Ruin is strong and swift– She outstrips them all by far, stealing a march, leaping over the whole wide earth to bring mankind to grief. Homer

Some friends are like sunny days, with false flames, oozing from afar, coming near without a dime. Michael Bassey Johnson

Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues. Michael Bassey Johnson

No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools. Michael Bassey Johnson

You can't lie in a magical forest! It will ruin all the magic! Michael Delaware

Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe. Therefore the Master takes actionby letting things take their course. He remains as calm at the end as at the beginning. He has nothing, thus has nothing to lose. What he desires is non-desire;what he learns is to unlearn. He simply reminds peopleof who they have always been. He cares about nothing but the Tao.Thus he can care for all things. Lao Tzu

The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope. Sophocles

We feel a deep pleasure from realizing that we believe something in common with our friends, and different from most people. We feel an even deeper pleasure letting everyone know of this fact. This feeling is EVIL. Learn to see it in yourself, and then learn to be horrified by how thoroughly it can poison your mind. Yes evidence may at times force you to disagree with a majority, and your friends may have correlated exposure to that evidence, but take no pleasure when you and your associates disagree with others; that is the road to rationality ruin. Robin Hanson

I won't let that night ruin you forever." But it did, it broke me into a million pieces and blew them away in the wind, like crumbled leaves. Jessica Sorensen

If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image. Michael Bassey Johnson

The pursuit of goodness leads to greatness, but the pursuit of greatness, whether by a man or a nation, leads to ruin…. [G]ood men build; great men destroy. They destroy because they try to control something other than themselves and that always leads to destruction. Unknown

The truth really does set you free – but what they don’t tell you is the process hurts like hell. Rachel Van Dyken

Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won't have any other option than to infest themselves with their own diseases. Michael Bassey Johnson

Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed. Simply put, it lacks values, and such a system will eventually collapse once its true light is discovered by the masses. Though some say that capitalism is a modern system, corruption has been the source for the demise of every great civilization. Suzy Kassem

You want to know what love is? Its the thing that ruins you. Alice Hoffman

People are perfectly capable of ruining their own lives by very themselves without taking any wrong guidance from outside! Mehmet Murat Ildan

She was supposed to be my salvation, and though she wouldn’t be my ruin, the loss was going to thrust my life right back to what started my downward spiral in the first place. Kelly Moran

[Pope] Clement waved his hands in irritation as if to dismiss the very idea. "The world is crumbling into ruin. Armies are marching. Men and women are dying everywhere, in huge numbers. Fields are abandoned and towns deserted. The wrath of the Lord is upon us and He may be intending to destroy the whole of creation. People are without leaders and direction. They want to be given a reason for this, so they can be reassured, so they will return to their prayers and their obiediences. All this is going on, and you are concerned about the safety of two Jews? . Iain Pears

If life was perfect, how in the hell would v evr learn to depend on someone other dn ourselves? If anything, dt’s wat life’s taught me. D need to b perfect is stemmed in d very belief dt it’s actually something v cn achieve. Self-actualization –doesn’t exist.”“ Does dt mean v don’t try then?” “No.” “It just means wen u reach end of ur rope, u shdn’t regret a damn thing, bt applaud urself for trying impossible . Rachel Van Dyken

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.- Unknown

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

Gain fame, and the paparazzi or media waits and watches for them to slip, just to shame their name. Anthony Liccione

How could I let a love go – one I’d been holding onto for so long – one that felt like home? It’s not easy to let go of the pieces, even though they’re the reason for my pain. I gripped them so hard that my blood fell like rain. But nothing, nothing could have prepared me for a new life with you – one I didn’t deserve, one I want to pursue. Rachel Van Dyken

Worry is a progressive disease that ruins one’s life Sunday Adelaja

The fleeting systems lapse like foam, '" he mumbled what was evidently a quotation. "That's it–foam, and fleeting. All man's toil upon the planet was just so much foam. He domesticated the serviceable animals, destroyed the hostile ones, and cleared the land of its wild vegetation. And then he passed, and the flood of primordial life rolled back again, sweeping his handiwork away–the weeds and the forest inundated his fields, the beasts of prey swept over his flocks, and now there are wolves on the Cliff House beach." He was appalled by the thought. "Where four million people disported themselves, the wild wolves roam to-day, and the savage progeny of our loins, with prehistoric weapons, defend themselves against the fanged despoilers. Think of it! And all because of the Scarlet Death–. Jack London

I love you. If you remember nothing else for the rest of your life, if you fall and hit your head and can’t remember my name, if you get so sick you’re unrecognizable, if you hate me, if you’re on your deathbed and can’t manage to even lift a finger – remember this. I. Love. You. Always. Forever. Eternally. Is that kind of love something you can handle, Saylor? Rachel Van Dyken

If you always want to have whatever you want any time you want it with no delays, and denial of self, you would end up ruining your life. Sunday Adelaja

The owner of the Agut d' Avignon had the air of a 1920s dandy who had ruined himself with one mad night of gambling at baccarat and had only been saved by this restaurant, which he seemed to cherish as if it were his wife or a good fountain pen. Unknown

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. Jonathan Barnes

Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies. S. E. Hinton