Suits Of Armor Quotes by Richard Brautigan, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, J. K. Rowling, Timothy Leary, Chogyam Trungpa, Sophia Amoruso and many others.
Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of armor and ride swiftly on a black horse into a very well-lit woods where he vanished forever.
Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.
And all along the corridor the statues and suits of armor jumped down from their plinths, and from the echoing crashes from the floors above and below, Harry knew that their fellows throughout the castle had done the same.
When men set out to kill and bully, they dress up. Suit of armor. Combat boots. Uniform.
Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world.
Clothing is ultimately the suit of armor in which we battle the world.
The strange thing about Roman soldiers in the comics was the amount of trouble they took over their armor and their helmets, and then, after all that, they left their legs bare. It didn’t make any sense at all. Weatherwise or otherwise.
You don’t know how to take off your suit of armor. You have no idea how to conduct yourself without the reference point of your own security… You can expose your wounds and flesh, your sore points. You can be completely raw and exposed.
Mail armor continued in general use till about the year 1300, when it was gradually supplanted by plate armor, or suits consisting of pieces or plates of solid iron, adapted to the different parts of the body.
I won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.
You wear your honor like a suit of armor… You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.
Airplanes have dulled and desensitized us; we are encumbered, like lovers in a suit of armor.
In sketch comedy, wear your character like a hat, not a suit of armor.
Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words – a suit of armor with nobody inside.
