Ruination Quotes

“I am not ruined. I am ruination.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“I am ruination.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“He will be the destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, the magic of Oniton under darkness and of the whispering river. Helen loved the absolute. Leonard had been ruined absolutely, and had appeared to her as a man apart, isolated from the world. A real man, who cared for adventure and beauty, who desired to live decently and pay his way, who could have travelled more gloriously through life than the Juggernaut car that was crushing him.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

“A home isn't always destroyed by outsiders; sometimes family members cause even greater damage.”
― Sanu Sharma, अर्को देशमा [Arko Deshma]

“The home is not always ruined by outsiders; sometimes those within the family ruin it even more severely.”
― Sanu Sharma, अर्को देशमा [Arko Deshma]

“घर सधैँ बाहिरकाले बिगार्दैनन्, कहिले काहीँ घरभित्रकाले झनै नराम्ररी बिगार्छन् ।”
― Sanu Sharma, अर्को देशमा [Arko Deshma]

“Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree
Damned from here to Eternity,
God ha' mercy on such as we,
Baa! Yah! Bah!”
― Rudyard Kipling, Barrack Room Ballads & Departamental Ditties and Ballads

“Had he not suffered unscathed the fearful dooms of all the offended gods, of all the histories, fire, brimstone, and yawning earthquakes, plague, and pestilence? Had he not stood, like the Pompeian sentry, while the Citadels of the Plain fell to ruin about his ears?”
― Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall

“For some reason Miss Jenner had seen fit to come uninvited to Sebastian’s home at a scandalously late hour. To make the situation even more compromising, she was unaccompanied—and spending more than a half minute alone with Sebastian was sufficient to ruin any girl. He was debauched, amoral, and perversely proud of it. He excelled at his chosen occupation—that of degenerate seducer—and he had set a standard few rakes could aspire to.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Winter

“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.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

“The only good is knowledge, Sekhandur. The only evil is ignorance'.

'That is a saying uttered by as many fools as visionaries and an attitude that has led to damnation more than once. The last man to speak those words in my presence doomed our Legion.”
― Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Black Legion

“During the 20th century, the Forestry Commission (FC) bought land and planted it with commercial forestry crops on a massive scale. In most cases the land was bought from cash-strapped private land-owners who were required, prior to afforestation, to terminate or otherwise end farm tenancies. What is less well known about this period of forestry expansion is that following purchase the FC embarked on an active programme of property ruination, involving the abandonment and deliberate destruction of hundreds of vacated residential properties, mainly farmsteads. The ruins of these farmsteads are still visible in many forests currently managed by Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) and act as a poignant symbol of Scotland's clearance legacy.”
― Douglas MacMillan, Reforesting Scotland 71, Spring/Summer 2025