Brittle Quotes

62 Brittle quotes by 57 unique authors

Behold me waiting—waiting for the knife.... The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform, The drunken dark, the little death-in-life.... [F]ace to face with chance, I shrink… — William Ernest Henley
While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend. — Jimmy Buffett
As we grow up, we are exposed to hate and greed and anger and jealousy and peanut brittle and all kinds of things, our subtly… — Frederick Lenz
Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing… — Paul Bremer
I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think… — Peter Zumthor
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless... I'm… — Marya Hornbacher
The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I shall forget you presently, my dear, So make the most of this, your little day, Your little month, your little half a year, Ere… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not… — Hermann Hesse
the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing… — Toni Morrison
So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next,… — Barbara Kingsolver
I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones… — Alice Hoffman
And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame. — Charlotte Bronte
He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees. Prepares your brittle substance… — Emily Dickinson
Maybe she'd been drinking too much of the super-sweet Mexican Coca-Cola they had down here. Or maybe she was just tired, alone, and far from… — Melissa de la Cruz
Disagreement is not necessarily a reason to head for Splitsville. In fact, a relationship without disagreement is probably too brittle to last. Some of the… — Jerry Spinelli
And we'd sit in the dry leaves that whispered a little with the slow respiration of our waiting and with the slow breathing of the… — William Faulkner
It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very… — Arundhati Roy
We were broken, brittle and fragile. The question was, were we still precious to each other? Or, instead of everything falling into place, had it… — Megan Hart
Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle. — Cormac McCarthy
Robert was the true steel. Stannis is pure iron, black and hard and strong, yes, but brittle, the way iron gets. He'll break before he… — George R. R. Martin
And sure enough,the youth in question was not his usual dapper self. His face was puffy, his eyes red and wild; his shirt(distressingly unbuttoned)hung over… — Jonathan Stroud
I forced a smile. It was the one I'd been practicing all morning. It felt tight at the edges and brittle everywhere in between. — Becca Fitzpatrick

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