Built Quote by Lucretius

How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?

— John Fowles

What's old collapses, times change, and new life blossoms in the ruins.

— Friedrich Schiller

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

The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be…

— Helen Keller

The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.

— Rumi

Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built upon the…

— Buenaventura Durruti

It takes a lot of strength and patience for one to invest time and effort in rebuilding ruins. But it's another chance for rebirth.

— Frank Matobo

New things are always better than old things.

— Andy Warhol

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

Everything that's old is new, and everything that's new is old.

— Stephanie Mills

If there really is no new way to be found, we are not afraid to stick with the old one that we found previously.…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe