“Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.”
Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
Context: Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
“Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
Oh, when may it suffice?”
W.B. Yeats book Michael Robartes and the Dancer
St. 4 <br class="br">Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), Easter, 1916 http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1477/ <br class="br">Variant: Too long a sacrifice<br>Can make a stone of the heart. <br class="br">Source: Easter 1916 and Other Poems
Come, ye Disconsolate.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“You may break your heart, but men will still go on as before.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Ὅτι οὐδὲν ἧττον τὰ αὐτὰ ποιήσουσι, κἂν σὺ διαρραγῇς.
VIII, 4
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
Richard Alleine (1611–1681) English clergyman
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 615.
