Battered

Famous quotes containing the word battered:

“How tall the buildings were as I began
To live, and how high the rain that battered them!”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

“Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisoned in mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)