Broken And Beautiful Quotes

#1. Yet people are still showing up to lift their hands after all these years even though the church is flawed and broken and beautiful and has a shameful, ugly side to it that I'll bet it wishes it didn't have and repeatedly tries to hide.
Just like me.
Just like you.
Just like always.

Max Andrew Dubinsky

#2. It happened and it was impossible and beautiful and then it ended before it even really began, leaving nothing behind but secrets and broken hearts.

Sarah Ockler

#3. We don't need to be beautiful for Christ to take us in. He is equally at home when we're broken-down and dirty.

Philip Gulley

#4. Beautiful like all the Shadowhunters were beautiful, like moonlight shearing off the edges of broken glass: lovely and deadly. Beautiful things, cruel things, cruel in that way that only people who absolutely believed in the rightness of their cause could be cruel.

Cassandra Clare

#5. God is alive and faithful to make something beautiful out of us...God won't abandon us...He's going to replenish it all. He's carrying us in his arms, no matter how bruised or broken we feel. He's planting beautiful seed for our journey - seed that's thriving even among the barren months.

Bonnie Gray

#6. Beautiful, clever, hardheaded Rapunzel, who had broken down and cried, whose hair was as beautiful as a sunset.

Melanie Dickerson

#7. The best writing comes out when you find yourself broken. Your heart is ripped open and all the feelings spill out into a beautiful mess on paper.

Shannen Wrass

#8. Beautiful young presidents died and beautiful young presidents lived, beautiful young women lived and then they died, but the broken sewer pipe beneath the courtyard of the old Worumbo mill was apparently eternal.

Stephen King

#9. Some stories aren't meant to be told. The more they get told, the more they change from what they once were, worn down and smooth like pieces of sea glass too beautiful to have ever been broken bottles.

Caren Gussoff

#10. In a couple of Ahdaf Soueif's novels, she gets at the certain kind of English that's being spoken by Egyptians. It's a beautiful, expressive English but it is non-standard, "broken" English that happens to be efficient, eloquent, and communicates perfectly well even if it is breaking rules.

Elliott Colla

#11. I don't have all the pieces to fix this beautiful, trapped, broken man, but I do have one piece and it's mine to give. For one night, for all nights. For however long he wants it. Me. Completely.

K.A. Tucker

#12. Did you know that pottery can be repaired with gold?" Kami asked. "Then it's meant to be stronger than before, and more beautiful. Which is awesome, though it seems expensive."
Her grandmother had nodded. "Makes sense to me," she said. "Why be broken when you can be gold?

Sarah Rees Brennan

#13. God knows we're all drawn to what's beautiful and broken.

Cassandra Clare

#14. In Nature, things are broken with a purpose - clouds break to pour rains, rivers break to water fields, fields break to yield crops, seeds break to yield plants ... so if ever you feel broken, understand that you must be part of a better and more beautiful purpose ...

Debashis Dey

#15. To be so lovely and so lost. To be all answerful with all that knowing trapped inside. To be beautiful and broken.

Patrick Rothfuss

#16. How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.

Tennessee Williams

#17. I was moving around with my imperfect, broken pieces until you came across and stitched my flaws with your words.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#18. To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.

Drake

#19. I always gravitate towards things that are not beautiful, but broken and weird and fascinating

Kate McKinnon

#20. We are two broken people, whose pieces magically fit together to make something beautiful and new.

Tamsyn Bester

#21. It took too long for me to realize I'd dropped that beautiful bottle of whiskey. Too long to realize I'd broken it. By the time I figured it out, too long turned to too late, and I remembered all-too-well the other way Whiskey can burn.

Kandi Steiner

#22. All that gleaming leather and gold stamping and beautiful type belongs in the pine-panelled library of an English country home; it wants to be read by the fire in a gentleman's leather easy chair--not on a secondhand studio couch in a one-room hovel in a broken-down brownstone front.

Helene Hanff

#23. HE LIKED TO COOK AND LAUGH AND SING, COULD START A FIRE WITH HIS HANDS, FIX THINGS THAT WERE BROKEN, AND EXPLAIN HOW TO LAUNCH THINGS INTO SPACE, BUT HE DIED WITHIN NINE MONTHS

Nicole Krauss

#24. In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful.

Miranda Leek

#25. I just wanted to tell you, how beautiful you were; that day, that night, that life.

Anthony Liccione

#26. Life doesn't always turn out how you expect and sometimes parts of you get broken along the way, but there is always hope and even broken pieces can be rebuilt into something beautiful.

Caisey Quinn

#27. I can't think why men would believe that it is a better world where something beautiful is destroyed and something broken left in its place.

Philippa Gregory

#28. Our hearts may have broken in Nebraska but in Colorado they split open along the fractures, crumble to pieces, blow away. The peaks and green valleys, the lakes set at the foot of mountains like offerings. Beautiful and doomed and thus terrible.

Ron Currie Jr.

#29. My beautiful Win. I wanted to kiss him on every last broken place, but his mother and my lawyer were there. So, instead I started to cry.

Gabrielle Zevin

#30. Broken aqueducts, left in the most picturesque and beautiful clusters of arches; broken temples; broken tombs. A desert of decay, sombre and desolate beyond all expression; and with a history in every stone that strews the ground.

Charles Dickens

#31. The bond forged between us was not one that could be broken by absence, distance, or time. And no matter how much more special or beautiful or brilliant or perfect than me he might be, he was as irreversibly altered as I was. As I would always belong to him, so would he always be mine.

Stephenie Meyer

#32. You are the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me, Lizzy. His voice was broken and scratchy and a tear slid out from the corner of each of his eyes.

Rachel Higginson

#33. All love is of God, the Apostle John reminds us, and because love cannot be buried in a coffin, the beautiful but broken relationships of Earth are resumed in the Father's home above where, as members of the same family, we dwell together in perfect harmony.

Herbert Lockyer

#34. They weren't cheap and I was almost broke. It was a choice between dinner and flowers and I chose flowers because it was a dark time in my life and my room was hideous and my heart was broken and I needed something beautiful.

Nina LaCour

#35. When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.

Barbara Bloom

#36. Zack looks at Jenna and slowly pulls off his sunglasses. "Why, hello, beautiful," he says. "I'm Zack." He shows off his dimples. "And you are ... ?"
"Not going to sleep with you," Jenna quips, grinning right back at him.
His smile widens. "Well played.

Chelsea Fine

#37. He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sought to smother her. She knew. It was there, inside. She had been broken.
Then she smiled. Oh, storms. She smiled anyway.
It was the single most beautiful thing he'd seen in his entire life.

Brandon Sanderson

#38. This is why being broken is so beautiful: being broken means you have cracks for love and light to shine through, gaps for the Godiverse to burrow and bloom, space to move from who you are to who you will become.

Reba Riley

#39. I'm drawn to you, Alayna. Not because I want to hurt you or make you feel a certain way, but because you're beautiful and sexy and smart and, yes, a little crazy, maybe, but you're not broken. And that makes me hopeful. For me.

Laurelin Paige

#40. Mother was,' June thought, 'a beautiful little ornament that was damaged.' Her broken edges cut her daughters in ways both emotional and physical, and only sharpened with age.

Karen Abbott

#41. The only thing that can last longer than the scars we all carry, is the love that makes it bearable. Beautiful and broken, we are beloved.

Perci T. Brooks

#42. Being a creator of a song I get to take all these broken fragments of failure and chaos and weave together something beautiful and meaningful. Decay. Death. Pain. Fall. And if God is a songwriter then these fallen leaves of mine can be redeemed

Jon Foreman

#43. And since beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful, and he is static, his life stagnates in a china sea.

Virginia Woolf

#44. He was Carmine Marcello DeMarco ... and even broken, he was beautiful.

J.M. Darhower

#45. He's the beautiful painkiller that my broken body and my shattered heart demand to stop hurting.

Mia Asher

#46. We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken.

E. Lockhart

#47. Then, with a stately leap, the sun bounded into the sky, and the whole, messy, beautiful, broken world was stained with fire.

Kate Constable

#48. Memories did one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present. Will was beautiful, but he was not hers; he was anybody's. Something in him was broken, and trough that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away.

Cassandra Clare

#49. God knows we're all drawn toward what's beautiful and broken; I have been, but some people cannot be fixed. Or if they can be, it's only by love and sacrifice so great it destroys the giver.

Cassandra Clare

#50. Sometimes there is a wellspring or river of something beautiful and possible in the tenderest sense that comes to and from the most broken of children, and I was one of these, and whatever is was, I can't name, I can only thank. Perhaps it is the water of life that saves us, after all.

Linda Hogan

#51. I'd do it all over again, knowing that you were going to be there at the end. I'd walk through the sadness and the loneliness all over again for you.

Kimberly Lauren

#52. In Japanese culture it is said that if a vase is accidently broken and then glued back together, it becomes even more beautiful... regardless of its defects. It can be the same with people.

Jose N. Harris

#53. I just hope people see that if God can do something beautiful with my broken pieces, then God truly has a plan for each and everyone of us.

Nick Vujicic

#54. Life is a beautiful journey, full of joy and pain
You never know when it will end, don't let a moment pass in vain ...
In the whole ruckus of life, nothing had I gained,
I just wanted freedom, no more did I wanted to be chained ...

Mehek Bassi

#55. We are all broken in some way. But it's all the shattered pieces that give us depth. Like stained glass, it's how the pieces and colors fit together that truly makes us beautiful.

Adriana Law

#56. God is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused.

Charles R. Swindoll

#57. Fine colour implies a unified relationship, in which each part is subordinate to the whole, and the transitions between them are felt to be as precious and beautiful as the colours themselves. In fact, the colours themselves must be continuously modified and broken as part of the transition.

Kenneth Clark

#58. Even when battered and broken, he was beautiful. Yes, a guy could be beautiful. Especially if that guy was Deandre.

Aishabella Sheikh

#59. People despite their struggles, flaws and faults are honestly the most beautiful creatures. We are wonderfully-broken pieces of art.

Alexander Pyles

#60. Sometimes things have to be broken and reformed to become truly beautiful.

Kristen Reed

#61. Geez, Em, stop checking him out so noticeably."
"Sorry! It's just so hard. I mean he's my boyfriend's identical twin. Obviously I like this brand." I gestured with my hand up and down, indicating Jace.

Kimberly Lauren

#62. As Samantha wrapped the ornament in paper, and placed it in a bag, Mrs. Ryan said, "Hearts are like that spun glass, beautiful and fragile, and easily broken." With a Mona Lisa smile, she turned and left the store.

Tamara Hoffa

#63. The promise is that again and again from the garbage the scattered feathers the ashes and broken bodies something new and beautiful may be born

John Berger

#64. The world is filled with so many beautiful people after all and who am I to think that you will hold on, hold on to me, because who am I and what are we?

Charlotte Eriksson

#65. A song that wrenches the heart finds a knowing ear and a liking heart.

Auliq Ice

#66. She's beautiful - broken and battered, still the most beautiful woman in the world to me - the only woman in the world for me.

Elizabeth Finn

#67. ...man can survive ...he can kill and be twisted and broken and desperate and insane and fuck barnyard pets in the dark and wear a dress if he chooses, and hate and destroy everything that's beautiful, and wish for death for himself and others with every breath, and still be a perfect child of God.

Dan Fante

#68. This was how Diego saw me. I was Henry Denton and I was Space Boy. I was broken and I was beautiful. I was nothing and I was everything. I didn't matter to the universe, but I mattered to him.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#69. Grace had torn me apart and put me back together so many times that I'd started to believe that was what I wanted. A kintsukuroi relationship, more beautiful for having been broken. But something can only be shattered so many times before it becomes irreparable...

Krystal Sutherland

#70. And you say you are broken, but broken mirrors like you create the most beautiful patterns of light.

Nikita Gill

#71. If we really believe the gospel we proclaim, we'll be honest about our own beauty and brokenness, and the beautiful broken One will make himself known to our neighbors through the chinks in our armor - and in theirs.

Fil Anderson

#72. We will pick our way through the shards of broken objects folly leaves behind. And some of what breaks will be very beautiful.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#73. She is scared and broken, yes. But she is also angrey
and stunningly beautiful. I'm certain I've never seen such a beautiful creature in my life.

Tahereh Mafi

#74. Being broken isn't the worst thing. We can be mended and put together again. We don't have to be ashamed of our past. We can embrace the history that gives us value, and see our cracks as beautiful.

Anna White

#75. The most beautiful heart of all is the one that can still love even while it bleeds, and especially after its been broken into thousands of pieces.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#76. When the pain overtakes you, reach inside. Gather the broken pieces, and hand them to God. Ask Him to remake your heart. Different, this time. Stronger. More beautiful. This is how we are made, and remade by the Maker.

Yasmin Mogahed

#77. Well hit a broken dream can become even more beautiful and solid. So much to shatter the limits of reality.

Mathias Malzieu

#78. She is a beautiful piece of broken pottery, put back together by her own hands. And a critical world judges her cracks while missing the beauty of how she made herself whole again.

J.M. Storm

#79. All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of all, and all poetry is now archaic that fails to match the wonder of this view.

Joseph Campbell

#80. Your voice is a little like cocaine. You could bottle that stuff up and sell it.

Kimberly Lauren