Found Quote by Scott Westerfeld

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

We live ruins amid ruins.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“There is, I find, something very evocative about ruins - particularly recent ones. (introduction to "Calico Black, Calico Blue")”

— Joel Knight

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

— Joseph Brodsky

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

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

— Joe Abercrombie

The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.

— Mohsin Hamid

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

— Johann Johannsson

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

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 very utterness of the crash and ruin, the desperation of the case, might be its hope. On ruins one can begin to build.…

— Rose Macaulay