Civilization Quote by John Cheever

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.

— Henry David Thoreau

Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

— Chuck Palahniuk

We live ruins amid ruins.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build…

— Buenaventura Durruti

It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to…

— Buenaventura Durruti

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

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing…

— Alfred Jarry

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

— John Webster

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs…

— Walter Benjamin

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

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant…

— Marilynne Robinson

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