“Painting and sculpture, labour and good faith, have been my ruin and I continually go from bad to worse. Better it would have been for me if I had set myself to making matches in my youth. I should not be in such distress of mind.” IfsShouldMindHas BeensYouthPaintingStressRuinsLabourDistressSculptureGood Faith Author:Michelangelo
“To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.” MayEffortYouthShadowRuinsAwfulScoreIncentivesWrecksVisualization Author:Mary Church Terrell
“October's bellowing anger breakes and cleavesThe bronzed battalions of the stricken woodIn whose lament I hear a voice that grievesFor battle's fruitless harvest, and the feudOf outrage men. Their lives are like the leavesScattered in flocks of ruin, tossed and blownAlong the westering furnace flaring red.O martyred youth and manhood overthrown,The burden of your wrongs is on my head.” MenVoiceYouthBattleRedBurdenRuinsHarvestManhoodOutrageOctoberFlocksLamentFurnacesMartyred Author:Siegfried Sassoon
“Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.” YoungFoundWomenYouthRuinsFancyFortyMidstFountainFountain Of Youth Author:Arsene Houssaye
“My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.” WarCountryNationsEnemyStruggleYouthHighestRuinsAshesReconstruction Author:Lech Walesa