Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory. – Theodor W. Adorno
When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken. – Victoria Woodhull
If I’m desperate, I’ll read anything. But even when I can be choosy, I still have no hard-and-fast rules. I have rules about what I won’t read, rather than what I will. No science fiction, no romance, no chick lit. Although even these rules can be broken. – Sonya Hartnett
There was a taboo as a result of the Holocaust that people respected that anti-Semitism was an ugly thing and should be avoided. Now that taboo seems to have been broken with impunity. – Steven T. Katz
The two million or so residents who live beneath the Heathrow flight path are accustomed to the noise. However, they are right to feel that any expansion would represent an unacceptable broken promise. – Zac Goldsmith
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider’s web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. – Tryon Edwards
According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze. – Salvatore Quasimodo
