"Ruined" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... happened. Those divine simplicities are erased from my heart. Good God, then what do I retain that is of value? The little boy that I was is dead forever, before my eyes. I survived him, but forgetfulness tormented me, then overcame me, the sad process of living ruined me, and I scarcely know what he knew. I remember things at random only, but the most beautiful, ...
— The Inferno • Henri Barbusse
... "George Stephenson although bantered and wearied on all sides stood steadfastly by his project, in spite of the declarations that the smoke from the engine would kill the birds and destroy the cattle along the route, that the fields would be ruined, and people be driven mad by noise ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 - Volume 1, Number 11 • Various
... you are going to tell head office about it this time," she said, despairingly. "It isn't right for me to ask any further consideration from you. The business here will be ruined." ...
— A Canadian Bankclerk • J. P. Buschlen
... has spoiled his book just because this plain old- fashioned method of procedure was not good enough for him. One-half the obscurity which makes his meaning so hard to apprehend is due to exactly the same cause as that which has ruined so much of the late Mr. Darwin's work—I mean to a desire to appear to be differing altogether from others with whom he knew himself after all to be in substantial agreement. He adopts, but (probably quite unconsciously) in his anxiety ...
— Luck or Cunning? • Samuel Butler
... a large part of the structure and devour the larvae. Now the ants love these larvae more than their own lives, and when these are destroyed, they yield themselves up to despair, refuse to patch up the building, the rain gets in, and the colony is ruined ...
— Popular Adventure Tales • Mayne Reid
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