Broken

Famous quotes containing the word broken:

    He told me that the Indians were nearly all gone to the sea-board and to Massachusetts, partly on account of the smallpox—of which they are very much afraid—having broken out in Oldtown.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever!
    Let the bell toll!—a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river;
    And, Guy De Vere, hast thou no tear?—weep now or never more!
    See! on yon drear and rigid bier low lies thy love, Lenore!
    Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    It is he who has broken the bond of marriage—not I. I only break its bondage.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)