Quotes About Brittle

Men are brittle, I reckon. They don't bend into new shapes. They get broken into them. Crushed into them.

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.

Blackthorn has wicked spikes that are highly brittle and tend to snap off under the skin and then fester horribly. This means that they can only really be part of a hedge that you do not want to get too close to.

We like to think of industrialization as being despicable. I don't really know what to make of it. There's something terribly brittle about it.

Unbendingness can also be monomania, it can ca be tyranny, and also it can be brittle, whereas what is flexible can also be humane, and strong enough to last.

We would make our heroes shallow.... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.

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 that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.

All good things in life are fragile and easily lost

I would indeed that love were longer-lived, And oaths were not so brittle as they are, But so it is, and nature has contrived To struggle on without a break thus far,— Whether or not we find what we are seeking Is idle, biologically speaking.

You never realise how fragile everything is until it breaks.

She had a brittle quality, as if she needed charity herself, but knew that she would never get it. The tragedy that had changed her life was still with her.

Lost her taste in life and blindly expects me to give it back to her. We talk as people do in books. Strange, brittle, arrowed. Tall, tall windows covered with lace. Pillows under our feet. And life tasteless. And so eager, so eager that I should accomplish a miracle. People always expect miracles.

She certainly carried that arrogance with her at dinner, and again when she dropped off the transparencies. He was surprised to hear that she'd crumbled so publicly, but then again, those kinds of people were often more fragile than they seemed. Harder, but more brittle.

I cannot quantify the physics of friendships and do not know exactly how much intense pressure can be applied before these glittery, brittle bonds break.

I find at moments I'm as fragile as glass.

Toward the end of his life, [Arnold] Toynby said the Christianity he saw developing was brittle, imperialistic and incapable of reforming itself.

The dry tone, brittle enough to break an edge and cut yourself on.

Tutto è gelata fragilità, cristallino risonante freddo.

Things that have been foolishly done, in the hope of favorable Fortune, will never come to a good end.' And, as the same Seneca says, 'The more clear and the more shining that Fortune is, the more brittle and the sooner broken is she.

things are so vulnerable to the humiliations of decay.

But you're also fragile. Imagine a mended china plate which hasn't quite set.

Molly Shannon such an interesting actress that portrays vulnerability and danger at the same time, because she seems brittle in that role.

Rahel, on the other hand, was wide awake, fiercely vigilant and brittle with exhaustion from her battle against Real Life.

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.