{"quotes":[{"text":"They had slept in the shelter of the ruins, though neither of them really got true rest.","author":"Sarah J. Maas","tags":["empire-of-storms","eos","rest","ruins","sarah-j-maas","shelter","sleep","throne-of-glass","tog"],"id":3658,"author_id":"Sarah+J.+Maas"},{"text":"It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievements. Ruins pose a direct challenge to our concern with power and rank, with bustle and fame. They puncture the inflated folly of our exhaustive and frenetic pursuit of wealth.","author":"Alain de Botton","tags":["achievements","fame","folly","power","rank","ruins","society","wealth"],"id":7490,"author_id":"Alain+de+Botton"},{"text":"He used to say that he never felt the hardness of the human struggle or the sadness of history as he felt it among those ruins. He used to say, too, that it made one feel an obligation to do one's best.","author":"Willa Cather","tags":["history","obligation","ruins","sadness","struggle"],"id":7668,"author_id":"Willa+Cather"},{"text":"The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellence, mindless of the fact he is admiring the ruins of his parents.","author":"William Stolzenburg","tags":["children","ecology","parents","progress","ruins"],"id":64501,"author_id":"William+Stolzenburg"},{"text":"Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time. ","author":"Janet Fitch","tags":["america","berlin","canvas","clean","empty","forgotten","learn","past","remembering","ruins"],"id":64870,"author_id":"Janet+Fitch"},{"text":"Something always attracts us towards the ruins, because ruins remind us our fundamental problem: The problem of impermanence! Amongst the ruins we see the very end of our road! Whatever shows you the simple truth, it is your Master Teacher; whoever repeatedly recalls you of the plain truth, he is your good master!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["impermanence","master","ruins","simple-truth","teacher","truth"],"id":65506,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"He could sleep in the ruins of cities lost for centuries.","author":"Cassandra Clare","tags":["cassandra-clare","centuries","lady-midnight","lost-cities","mark-blackthorn","ruins","shadowhunters","sleep","tda","the-dark-artifices","the-shadowhunter-chronicles"],"id":108767,"author_id":"Cassandra+Clare"},{"text":"What I keep in secret, it makes you to get closer as fast you get to the secret and you reveal it. You don't have anymore the 'want' or the 'will' or the 'motivation' which to make you want to like me... It's the truth, the truth ruins, the secret devastate the stuff and the lie just makes corrections in the correction but all in the end is in one place and it's really screw up.","author":"Deyth Banger","tags":["lie","motivation","place","ruins","screw","up","which","will"],"id":131394,"author_id":"Deyth+Banger"},{"text":"My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.","author":"Georg Cantor","tags":["mathematics","ruins"],"id":132896,"author_id":"Georg+Cantor"},{"text":"They told of dripping stone walls in uninhabited castles and of ivy-clad monastery ruins by moonlight, of locked inner rooms and secret dungeons, dank charnel houses and overgrown graveyards, of footsteps creaking upon staircases and fingers tapping at casements, of howlings and shriekings, groanings and scuttlings and the clanking of chains, of hooded monks and headless horseman, swirling mists and sudden winds, insubstantial specters and sheeted creatures, vampires and bloodhounds, bats and rats and spiders, of men found at dawn and women turned white-haired and raving lunatic, and of vanished corpses and curses upon heirs.","author":"Susan Hill","tags":["castles","ghosts","gothic","graveyards","horror","ruins","vampires"],"id":140246,"author_id":"Susan+Hill"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":34,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}