Famous quotes containing the words broken and/or silence:
“The human spirit will endure sickness; but a broken spirit—who can bear?”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 18:14.
“I shook off the sweat and the sun. I understood that I had destroyed the balance of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I had been happy. Then I shot four more times at an inert body which the bullets penetrated without appearing so. And it was like four brief knocks that I struck on the door of misfortune.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)