Brunt Quotes

Who bears the weight when things go wrong.

This collection is built around who ends up bearing the brunt of hardship, from a family absorbing a difficult time together to fiscal belt-tightening that falls unevenly on people. Related frustration appears in Anger quotes.


Other quotes point to brunt as something borne unfairly by a group facing contempt, or self-deprecatingly, as becoming the brunt of one's own public punch lines. For more on shouldering hardship, see Able quotes.