Breaks Quotes

1171 quotes by 923 authors

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks? — Steven Wright
And talking about dark! You think dark is just one color, but it ain't. There're five or six kinds of black. Some silky, some woolly.… — Toni Morrison
If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The… — Ernest Hemingway
In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer... — George Orwell
Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words." From the moment… — Orhan Pamuk
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who 'forgives' you--out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always… — Dag Hammarskjold
The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks… — Carl Schmitt
We sleep to time's hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if ever we wake, to the silence of God. And then, when we wake to the deep shores… — Annie Dillard
and if the world breaks down, I'll be around. — Rod McKuen
The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe. — Joanna Macy
In books, day breaks, and night falls. In life, night rises from the ground. The day hangs on for as long as it can, bright… — Hugh Laurie
If youâ€™re really listening, if youâ€™re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. — Andrew Harvey
The heart breaks and breaks and lives by breaking it is necessary to go through dark and deeper dark and not to turn — Stanley Kunitz
Had I known that the heart breaks slowly, dismantling itself into unrecognizable plots of misery... had I known yet I would have loved you, your… — Maya Angelou
I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out. — Philip Roth
Mamma," whispered Rannoch as he nestled by her side, "what is man?" Bracken looked into her calf's eyes. "Man? Man is something you must always… — David Clement-Davies
I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet… — Emily Dickinson
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. — William Shakespeare

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