“Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.”
“A world that is intellectually mature but morally infantile is on the road to ruin.”
“Long road to ruin, there in your eyesUnder the cold streetlights.No tomorrow, no dead-ends in sight!”
“It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.”
“Alas, poor gentleman,He look’d not like the ruins of his youthBut like the ruins of those ruins.”
“Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.”