Ruination quotes:

Send

There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination. -- Neil Gaiman
The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event - not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics - then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light. -- Simon Winchester
You think God looks out for people?...I do. Way the world is. Somebody can wake up and sneeze somewhere in Arkansas or some damn place and before you're done there's wars and ruination and all hell. You don't know what's goin to happen. I'd say He's just about go to. I don't believe we'd make it a day otherwise. -- Cormac McCarthy
A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return for two dozen years of power; the writer agrees to the ruination of his life, and gains (but only if he's lucky) maybe not eternity, but posterity, at least. Either way (this was Jumpy's point) it's the Devil who wins. -- Salman Rushdie
Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the sovereign's ruination. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Na razrusha'ya.ï»¿ I am not ruined. ï»¿E'ya razrushostï»¿. I am ruination. -- Leigh Bardugo
Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination. -- Jean Baudrillard
An Ice Age is coming and I welcome it as much-needed changing. I see no solution to our ruination of earth except for a drastic reduction of the human population. -- David Foreman

Send