Brittle Quotes

62 quotes by 57 authors

Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus… — Laozi
Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass. — Tom Robbins
The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common pop(p)y seed. If the sand… — Canvass White
The first and the most important thing is to know that life is one and immortal. Only the forms, countless in number, are transient and… — Sri Aurobindo
Faith comes in different tempers: there's the hard, brittle faith that shatters when it meets an obstacle it can't cut through, and the tough, springy… — K.J. Parker
The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there. Resilience might be… — Jamais Cascio
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. Upon identifying the reason for the explosion of the… — Richard P. Feynman
Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share… — William Gaddis
I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day be expecting something. What treasures… — Ivan Goncharov
But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don't destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts. — Marguerite Yourcenar
A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that it, the lapsed… — Walker Percy
Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity. — Billy Sunday
The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle… — Joshua Waitzkin
Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than… — Jane Austen
The brittle is easy to shatter. — Laozi
I pride myself on how little space I take up. I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry fall leaf, complete… — Julie Gregory
No matter how healthy, intelligent or affluent we may be, if our minds are weak, then our happiness will also be frail and brittle. Our… — Daisaku Ikeda
When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft… — Laozi
The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin, and the last… — Tim Cahill
Thereâ€™s something brittle in me that will break before it bends. — Mark Lawrence

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