William Shakespeare Quotes

If foundations made of stone can turn to dust, then the hardest hearts of steel can turn to rust.

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them, but at least you're very strong. In fact through time, it's just adding more and more pain, more and more loss and it makes you more fragile.

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

I didn't deserve to get my title stripped after three ACL reconstructions. I didn't deserve to be out for four years. But it happened to me, and so I definitely learned over the years that you don't deserve anything. Nothing you have is yours. Everything is up for grabs in this world.

Some people might think they're invincible, but I don't.

Listen, when I was real young, I thought I was made out of steel. I didn't think anything could hurt me, I was so powerful. But as time goes on, you find out you are not made of steel.

When you're younger you feel more invincible - that nothing is ever going to get you down or beat you. When you get a bit older, you realise the fragility of things, how easy it is to get caught out by things - and Ant did.

Before my stroke, I thought I was infallible, because I was physically strong, and could do these endless hours with no effects, whatsoever. But sooner or later, we all hit a wall.

The European Union is not unbreakable; something that is breakable is extremely valuable.

People have built me up to be untouchable, unbeatable, invincible, and I'm not that. I am a man, and I am a winner, but that can change in a second.

Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.

Life is just the time between crapping yourself.

What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.

That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all... Never was a chain that couldn't be broken. Sometimes its even a good idea.

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

Broken china lasts longer than unbroken.

Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.