Quote by Oscar Wilde

“But they had already tried, again and again and again, and always, when the first crashing wave of mutual longing subsided, the ugly wreck…

— robert galbraith

“…and they limp and halt, they’re all wrinkled, drawn, they squint to the side, can’t look you in the eyes, and always bent on…

— Homer

“How many different kinds of ruin do you have to see, before you resign yourself to calling it all 'ruin'?”

— Veronica Roth

“We will pick our way through the shards of broken objects folly leaves behind. And some of what breaks will be very beautiful.”

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“The man who to untimely death is doomed Vainly would hedge him in from the assault of harm; He bears the seed of ruin…

— Matthew Arnold

“Within a broken heart lie a realm of impenetrable shadows, and the echo of what could have been.”

— Felix Alexander

“A brief rustling that broke off short, as if startled at itself, then deadly silence, that agonising, watchful hush, fraught with its own betrayal,…

— Gustav Meyrink

“Everything new and beautiful seems to arrive already haunted by its own demise.”

— Caroline Evans

“Otherwise, he'd have found the ruin empty, and then, somehow, very quietly and almost naturally, he would have died.”

— William Gibson

“The come-down is ruination. Death to your happy.”

— Stephen King

“There was silence. Then as if to refresh the power of destruction, the wind rose and the waves rose and through the house there…

— Virginia Woolf

“And giving it a happy ending, when all know that tales never end, and the happy ending is but a moment to catch one’s…

— Robin Hobb