33 Ruins Quotes & Sayings with Wallpapers & Posters

Q: What is the best Ruins quote?

"There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out." - Sophie Kinsella

Q: What are some Ruins quotes?

"Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time. " - Janet Fitch "They told of dripping stone walls in uninhabited castles and of ivy-clad monastery ruins by moonlight, of locked inner rooms and secret dungeons, dank charnel houses and overgrown graveyards, of footsteps creaking upon staircases and fingers tapping at casements, of howlings and shriekings, groanings and scuttlings and the clanking of chains, of hooded monks and headless horseman, swirling mists and sudden winds, insubstantial specters and sheeted creatures, vampires and bloodhounds, bats and rats and spiders, of men found at dawn and women turned white-haired and raving lunatic, and of vanished corpses and curses upon heirs." - Susan Hill "The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and everyone was incredibly stupid. And ugly." - Scott Westerfeld

Q: What are some short Ruins quotes?

"The sight of so many ruins destroys any desire to build shanties; all this ancient dust makes one indifferent to fame." - Gustave Flaubert "Frohike... had a long-standing crush on Dana Scully, but basically it was all talk. Mulder suspected Frohike would turn into a jittering mass of nerves if Scully ever consented to go out with him." - Kevin J. Anderson "Could you possibly be a little more incoherent?" asked Olivenko. "There are bits of this I'm almost understanding, and I'm sure that's not what you have in mind." - Orson Scott Card

Q: What is good short Ruins quote?

"We are who we are. When changes come, we start with what we are right then, and then we work to try to become whoever we need to be." - Orson Scott Card

Love loves anarchy. It loves to wreak havoc. It loves to dance atop the ruins.

I have to let her remain here if she wants to. She's wreckage. It's as simple as that. We have these obligations to our human ruins.

Obligations Quotes Ruins Quotes There's Something I Want You to Do Quotes Wreckage Quotes

Ah, what sights and sounds and pain lie beneath that mist. And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green and peaceful, sunlit place---but it's all jungle here, a wild and savage wilderness that's overrun with ruins. But put on your crown, my Queen, and we will build a New City on these ruins.

Soul Quotes / City Quotes Crown Quotes Ruins Quotes Soul on Ice Quotes Valley Quotes

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.

Attitude Quotes Fate Quotes Fear Quotes / Children Quotes Choice Quotes Defend Quotes Frightened Quotes Kill Quotes Krew elfów Quotes

We know from accounts of Rilke's life that his stay in Rodin's workshops taught him how modern sculpture had advanced to the genre of the autonomous torso. The poet's view of the mutilated body thus has nothing to do with the previous century's Romanticism of fragments and ruins; it is part of the breakthrough in modern art to the concept of the object that states itself with authority and the body that publicizes itself with authorization.

Authority Quotes Du mußt dein Leben ändern Quotes Rilke Quotes Rodin Quotes Romanticism Quotes Ruins Quotes

They told of dripping stone walls in uninhabited castles and of ivy-clad monastery ruins by moonlight, of locked inner rooms and secret dungeons, dank charnel houses and overgrown graveyards, of footsteps creaking upon staircases and fingers tapping at casements, of howlings and shriekings, groanings and scuttlings and the clanking of chains, of hooded monks and headless horseman, swirling mists and sudden winds, insubstantial specters and sheeted creatures, vampires and bloodhounds, bats and rats and spiders, of men found at dawn and women turned white-haired and raving lunatic, and of vanished corpses and curses upon heirs.

Castles Quotes Ghosts Quotes Gothic Quotes Graveyards Quotes Horror Quotes Ruins Quotes

The broken pink pillars, in the half-light, might have been waiting to fall down on him: the pool, covered with green scum, its steps torn away and hanging by one rotting clamp, to close over his head. The shattered evil-smelling chapel, overgrown with weeds, the crumbling walls, splashed with urine, on which scorpions lurked - wrecked entablature, sad archivolt, slippery stones covered with excreta - this place, where love had once brooded, seemed part of a nightmare.

Love Quotes / Decay Quotes Nightmare Quotes Ruins Quotes Stones Quotes Under the Volcano Quotes

The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So a broken column of the old Roman times, an old tower of Lombardy, a weather-beaten Gothic piece of a pillar understands me well. But I am a ruin myself, wandering among ruins.

Ruins Quotes

The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and everyone was incredibly stupid. And ugly.

Funny Quotes Humor Quotes Ruins Quotes Rusty Quotes Uglies Quotes

It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievements. Ruins pose a direct challenge to our concern with power and rank, with bustle and fame. They puncture the inflated folly of our exhaustive and frenetic pursuit of wealth.

Achievements Quotes Fame Quotes Folly Quotes Power Quotes Rank Quotes Ruins Quotes

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.

Are We There Yet? Quotes Expectations Quotes Ruins Quotes Society Quotes

Every beautiful facade seemed to conceal rot and ruin that I could almost see.

Beauty Quotes / Facade Quotes Hidden Quotes Odd Apocalypse Quotes Odd Thomas Quotes Rot Quotes Ruins Quotes

I have emotions that are like newspapers that read themselves.I go for days at a time trapped in the want ads.I feel as if I am an ad for the sale of a haunted house:18 rooms $37,000 I'm yours ghosts and all.

Sadness Quotes / Ads Quotes Ghosts Quotes Past Quotes Poetry Quotes Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970 Quotes Ruins Quotes

All scornful descriptions of American landscapes with ruined tenements, automobile dumps, polluted rivers, jerry-built ranch houses, abandoned miniature golf links, cinder deserts, ugly hoardings, unsightly oil derricks, diseased elm trees, eroded farmlands, gaudy and fanciful gas stations, unclean motels, candlelit tearooms, and streams paved with beer cans, for these are not, as they might seem to be, the ruins of our civilization but are the temporary encampments and outposts of the civilization that we – you and I – shall build.

Civilization Quotes / America Quotes Ruins Quotes The Stories of John Cheever Quotes

Why am I begging you, who parades your suffering over the ruins like a king in order to ensure that you will never be touched deeply, you who're always laughing.

King Quotes Laughing Quotes My Mother: Demonology Quotes Ruins Quotes

There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.

Truth Quotes / Life Quotes Resilience Quotes Ruins Quotes The Undomestic Goddess Quotes

So you and the lovely Agent Scully are going down to investigate?' Frohike said, sounding hopeful.'Yeah, we leave for Cancun tomorrow.''Our tax dollars at work,' Langly snorted.'I'd love to see Agent Scully with a healthy tropical tan,' Frohike said.'Down, Frohike,' Mulder said.

Frohike Quotes Langley Quotes Mulder Quotes Ruins Quotes Scully Quotes Taxes Quotes

Frohike... had a long-standing crush on Dana Scully, but basically it was all talk. Mulder suspected Frohike would turn into a jittering mass of nerves if Scully ever consented to go out with him.

Crushes Quotes Frohike Quotes Mulder Quotes Ruins Quotes Scully Quotes The lone gunmen Quotes

When I was doing preliminary research on this case, I remembered the story about Tlazolteotl.' [Mulder] glanced at the old archaeologist. 'Am I pronouncing it correctly? It sounds like I'm swallowing a turtle.

Mulder Quotes Pronunciation Quotes Ruins Quotes Scully Quotes X files Quotes

Scully,' [Mulder] said, his voice quiet and serious, 'with the... unorthodox explanations I often find when studying the evidence, I know you're always skeptical-but every time you're at least fair to me. You respect my opinion, even when you don't agree with it.' He looked at his hands. 'I don't know if I've ever told you, but I really appreciate that.'She looked at him and smiled. 'You've told me, Mulder. Maybe not in words... but you've told me.

Appreciation Quotes Friendship Quotes / Mulder Quotes Ruins Quotes Scully Quotes X files Quotes

Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time.

America Quotes Berlin Quotes Canvas Quotes Clean Quotes Empty Quotes Forgotten Quotes

During the war, I promised the dead I would never forget them. I stared at them, barely able to move myself. Pretended I was one of them. To this day I can recall the light in the ruins.

Light Quotes War Quotes / Ruins Quotes The Light in the Ruins Quotes

On all sides, as far as the eye could reach, rose the grass-covered heaps marking the site of ancient habitations. The great tide of civilisation had long since ebbed, leaving these scattered wrecks on the solitary shore. Are those waters to flow again, bearing back the seeds of knowledge and of wealth that they have wafted to the West? We wanderers were seeking what they had left behind, as children gather up the coloured shells on the deserted sands. At my feet there was a busy scene, making more lonely the unbroken solitude which reigned in the vast plain around, where the only thing having life or motion were the shadows of the lofty mounds as they lengthened before the declining sun.

History Quotes / Archaeology Quotes Civilisation Quotes Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon: With Travels in Armenia Quotes Kurdistan and the Deser Quotes Ruins Quotes