Ruins Quote by Joel Knight

The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.

— Mohsin Hamid

Well, there is something beautiful about ruins. I mean, in one sense it's not that different from going to Rome and looking at the…

— David Maraniss

“Ruins. Places built up by man, painstaking, sometimes over centuries. Layer upon layer of human experience, history, and art, represented in stone and wood…

— wildbow

We live ruins amid ruins.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I’m rather sentimental about the ruins—as a child, I halfheartedly attempted suicide there now and again, always returning from post-tourist-hours expeditions with knees winking…

— Michelle Hodkin

I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.

— Tadao Ando

I'm fascinated by the ruins and remains of industrialisation.

— Johann Johannsson

“I sometimes wonder whether century-old ruins look so beautiful to us beacause they were *meant* to ruin in a beautiful way. There was a…

— Paul Collins

“You let everything stand until it's knocked over and then you go over and write your own ruins”

— Norman Mailer

Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there…

— J. B. Jackson

There's nothing as dear as the sight of ruins.

— Joseph Brodsky