“But things don't just fall apart. People break them.”
Source: The Book of Blood and Shadow
A Deepness in the Sky (1999)
“But things don't just fall apart. People break them.”
Source: The Book of Blood and Shadow
“What is the secret of your serenity?
Said the Master "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.”
Source: One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 22
“Things fall apart, it's scientific.”
“Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.”
Variant: Sometimes good things fall apart so that better things can fall together.
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“Things fall apart;
the center cannot hold…”
Source: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
“People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.”
Garga, in In the Jungle of Cities [Im Dickicht der Städte] (1923) , sc. 9; also translated as In the Swamp and Jungle of Cities.