Best broken & wind Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of ill-gaited and wind-broken horses, painted first in pastel colors, then in dull grays and browns, but perplexing and intolerably dizzy the thing is, as never were the merry-go-rounds of childhood or adolescence; as never, surely, were the certain-coursed, dynamic roller-coasters of youth. For most men and women these thirty years are taken up with a gradual withdrawal from life.”

Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

“Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze. Gaining and failing they are buffeted by a dark wind - But what? On harsh weedstalks the flock has rested - the snow is covered with broken seed husks and the wind tempered with a shrill piping of plenty.”

Age Dark Failing Tree Wind Broken Bird Seeds Snow Old Age Flight Plenty Covered Harsh Flocks Skimming Bare Trees

Author:William Carlos Williams

“Snow pursued by the wind is not wholly unlike a retreating army. In the open field it ranges itself in ranks and battalions; where it can get a foothold it makes a stand; where it can take cover it does so. You may see whole platoons of snow cowering behind a bit of broken wall.”

May Doe Whole Bits Behinds Fields Wind Broken Wall Army Snow Range Pursued Open Fields

Book:Can Such Things Be?

Source: Can Such Things Be?

“The monarchy of the Greeks for want of an heir was broken into several kingdoms; four of which, seated to the four winds of heaven, were very eminent. For Ptolemy reigned over Egypt, Lybia and Ethiopia ; Antigonus over Syria and the lesser Asia; Lysimachus over Thrace ; and Cassander over Macedon, Greece and Epirus .”

Want Heaven Four Wind Broken Kingdoms Greek Syria Egypt Asia Greece Monarchy Heirs Ethiopia

Book:Isaac Newton's Observations on the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John: A Critical Edition

Source: Isaac Newton's Observations on the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John: A Critical Edition

“I have been Merlin wandering in the woods Of a far country, where the winds waken Unnatural voices , my mind broken By a sudden acquaintance with man's rage.”

Men Mind Has Beens Country Voice Wind Broken Woods Rage Wander Acquaintance Unnatural

Author:R. S. Thomas

“To live as I incline, or not to live at all: so do I wish; so wisheth also the holiest. But alas! how have I still - inclination? Have I-still a goal? A haven towards which MY sail is set?A good wind? Ah, he only who knoweth WHITHER he saileth, knoweth what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.What still remaineth to me? A heart weary and flippant; and unstable will; fluttering wings; a broken backbone.This seeking for MY home: O Zarathustra, dost thou know that this seeking hath been MY home-sickening; it eateth me up.”

Source: Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None

“While on that old grey stone I sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate, Mankind inanimate phantasy.”

Reality Tree Mankind Wind Broken Stones Sat Realism Grey

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death? The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight. I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table. I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it - incredibly.”

“I have wished you dead and myself dead. How could it be otherwise. I have broken into you like a burglar. And you've set your dogs on me. And a pile of broken sticks. A child could kick. I have climbed you like a monument, gasoing, For the exercise and the view, And leaned over the railing at the top... Strong and warm, the summer wind.”

Children Strong Views Dog Wind Broken Exercise Summer Anger Sticks Warm Kicks Monument Burglars Summer Wind

Author:Alicia Ostriker

“I see a city in the desert lies The vanity of an ancient king But the city lies in broken pieces While the wind howls and the vultures sing”

Lying Cities Pieces Wind Broken Kings Ancient Vanity Desert Howl Vulture Broken Pieces

Author:Sting

“The surest way to know our gold, is to look upon it and examine it in God's furnace, where he tries it that we may see what it is. If we have a mind to know whether a building stands strong or not, we must look upon it when the wind blows. If we would know whether a staff be strong, or a rotten, broken reed, we must observe it when it is leaned on and weight is borne upon it. If we would weigh ourselves justly we must weigh ourselves in God's scales that he makes use of to weigh us.”

Ifs Knows Way Trying Mind Looks May Use Strong Building Wind Broken Gold Weight Blow Scales Look Up Staff Rotten Reeds Furnaces Stand Strong

Author:Jonathan Edwards

“When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it.”

Feels Wind Broken Bones Broken Bone

Author:Shia LaBeouf

“You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.”

Wind Broken

Book:Conversations with Ernest Gaines

Source: Conversations with Ernest Gaines

“In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.”

Heart Long Bigs Running Morning Wind Broken Long Time Wave Beach Remembered Awake Wind Blowing

Book:The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

Source: The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

“I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind and the gibberish of trees rubbing together, trying to decipher some code, trying to piece together what was broken. It's hopeless. The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside you like a stone.”

Knows Trying Together Past Pieces Tree Wind Broken Stones Weight Code Hopeless Drag Decipher

Author:Lauren Oliver

“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”

Wind Broken Adversity Survived Bent Oaks

Author:Robert Jordan

“I will not go on, I thought. I won't. I will throw my soul to the wind and blow into a thousand pieces. I will wash up on a shore somewhere like bleached and broken driftwood. I will dry out in the sun until I-and any gift I ever had-shrivel into the sand.”

Soul Sun Pieces Wind Broken Goes On Thousand Blow My Soul Dry Sand Shore Driftwood

Book:Just One Wish

Source: Just One Wish

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