Anselm Kiefer (1945) German painter and sculptor
Quoted in Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joshua-schwartz/in-the-beginning-there-was-not_b_1703387.html
“Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, book Eat, Pray, Love
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
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Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) Polish-British writer
Letter (19 December 1885), sent by Conrad from Calcutta to Joseph Spiridion in England, quoted in: [Najder, Zdzisław, Joseph Conrad: A Life, 106, https://books.google.com/books?id=F8ANmy_7mTMC&pg=PA106, 2007, Camden House, 978-1-57113-347-2]
“All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.”
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
No. 1, volume v, p. 286
Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)
“A mind that has confronted ruin for years
Is half or more a ruined mind.”
Wendell Berry (1934) author
Given (2005), Sabbaths 2001
“Cat, you ruined mom's dress!"
"Honey, it was ruined when she bought it.”
Dr. Seuss book The Cat in the Hat
Source: The Cat in the Hat
“Ruins—antique ruins at least—are what is left when history has moved on.”
Geoff Dyer (1958) English writer
Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It (1993)
Context: Ruins—antique ruins at least—are what is left when history has moved on. They are no longer at the mercy of history, only of time. (p. 207).
“Prentice: Unnatural vice can ruin a man.
Rance: Ruin follows the accusation not the vice.”
Joe Orton (1933–1967) English playwright and author
What the Butler Saw (1969), Act II
Sun Tzu book The Art of War
(zh-TW) 孫子曰：國之上下，死生之地，存亡之道，不可不察也。
The Art of War, Chapter 1 · Detail Assessment and Planning