Ancient Quote by John Webster

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

Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.

— Joseph Joubert

Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

— Johann Johannsson

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

— Joseph Brodsky

“The allure of antiquity... The echoes of bygone eras, where time seems to linger in the aged textures of ancients. A visceral connection to…

— Monika Ajay Kaul

“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

The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.

— Mohsin Hamid

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

All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do away this…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“As I walked over the loose fragments of stone, which lay scattered and surveyed the sublimity and grandeur of the ruins, I recurred, by…

— Ann Radcliffe

When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in what civilization…

— Louis Sullivan