Attitude Quote by Robert Harbison

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

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

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

— Joseph Brodsky

We live ruins amid ruins.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.

— Mohsin Hamid

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

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“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

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

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and everyone…

— Scott Westerfeld

“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