Quotes About Breakage

Carelessness doesn't bounce — it shatters.

The universe always moves from an ordered state to a disordered one; that a glass may fall to the ground and shatter yet you never see a broken glass reassemble itself and then jump back on the table.

Siempre fue y será una fiesta para mí cuando se rompe en casa un termómetro y se libera la gota gorda de mercurio plateado contenida en él, ese núcleo indomesticable

Lo que pasa es que a veces forzamos demasiado nuestros juguetes y se acaban rompiendo.

I looked at the piles of plates and cups, and kettles, and bottles and jars, and pies and stoves, and cakes, and tomatoes, &c., and felt that the thing would soon become exciting. It did. They started with breaking a cup. That was the first thing they did. They did that just to show you what they COULD do, and to get you interested.

In a way, a man's life depended on the china horse. Or at least on the breaking of the china horse.

This breakage within us is what makes us human and vulnerable. There is nothing more sinister than someone whose mind seems to be an absolute circle; there is a helpless coldness and a deadly certainty about such a presence.

The potted plant could have been knocked over intentionally or accidentally, or maybe one of the animals that lived here broke it somehow. I thought of the impossibilities and improbabilities. Jack would say that elves had broken it when they came to take me back to the wood.

There is no breakthrough without breakage"--Love's Body

He had attempted to preserve the skin like a hide, placing it in a solution of water and salt for about a week. He concluded that he must have used too much salt, because the skin broke into pieces and he had to throw it out. "It was very disappointing.

These eggs are broken. Cracked." "Yes, ma'am. That happens sometimes." "Does it?" "Yes, it's the unfortunate part of being an egg.