Ruin Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Mind, Ruin, Nobility, Tragedy, Human Potential

2. “Your soul, dear Lucy! I hate the word now, because of all the cant with which superstition has wrapped it round. But we have souls, and I see you ruining yours. I cannot bear it.”

E.M. Forster

Soul, Lucy, Hate, Ruin, Superstition Critique, Personal Concern

3. “Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.”

Robert Greene

Moral Conflict, Realistic Wisdom, Societal Challenges, Morality, Wisdom, Ruin

4. “"Fickle Fate" is a vicious goddess who brings no permanent good to anyone. On the contrary, she brings ruin to almost every man upon whom she shows unearned gold.”

George S. Clason

Fickle Fate, Unearned Wealth, Vicious Goddess, Fate, Wealth, Ruin

5. “In my mind I saw my own temples in ruins, before even one brick had been laid upon another.”

Henry Miller

Personal Destruction, Mental Collapse, Inner Conflict, Self, Ruin, Doubt

6. “Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

Appearances Society, Smiling Faces, Deception Truth, Emotions, Ruin

7. “All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one.”

Stephen King

Death Imagery, Ruin, Horror Fiction, Darkness, Silence, Desolation

8. “Help means ruin and saving means slaying.”

J. R. R. Tolkien

Help, Ruin, Saving, Sacrifice, Conflict

9. “We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.”

Winston Churchill

Patriotism, Resistance, Ruin, Slavery, Honor

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