A man is a god in ruins.
Duke Ellington

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
Lord Byron

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.
Angela Carter

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
Franz Kafka

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George Washington

As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in ruins.
Sinead O'Connor

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
Richard Burton

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
Oscar Wilde

I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.
William Wells Brown

I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.
Natalie Portman

I'm one of the ruins that Cromwell knocked about a bit.
Marie Lloyd

It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins.
Buenaventura Durruti

It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy.
Mark Hoppus

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
John Lennon

Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i.
Jack Schwartz

Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.
King Hussein I

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
Gustave Flaubert

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
Charles de Montesquieu