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ruins Synonyms

ruins

pl.n.

remains, traces, foundations, debris, walls, wreckage, vestiges, remnants, relics, residue, wreck, rubble, detritus; see also wreck 2.

ruins Quotes

Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime, Because all died, because I had to die. The snow fell, the trees stood, the promise kept, And a child I slept.

—Nemerov, Howard

These fragments I have shored against my ruins.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

Old mortality, the ruins of forgotten times.

—Browne, SirThomas

The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

It was at Rome, on the fifteenth of October1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the City first started to my mind.

—Gibbon, Edward