Top 27 Broken But Not Destroyed Quotes
#1. There is far too much of divorce, wherein hearts are broken, and sometimes lives are destroyed.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#2. The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.
Nikki Giovanni
#3. It was then that I realized.
There are a thousand ways to break a girl...but it only takes one to kill her.
-Alyssa 'Blame It on the Pain
Ashley Jade
#4. He wanted to tell her that everything he had done he had done because he was broken, because watching her die had destroyed him, but there was no way to say it that didn't sound like he was trying to pin the blame outside himself
Laini Taylor
#5. Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with rock 'n' roll music. Now at least they can do it quietly with a home computer.
Russell Baker
#6. I was out with a friend and he came over with a pair of girls. I said to him "They're like buses." He said "What? Because you wait for ages and then two come along at once." I said "No, they are like buses!"
Jimmy Carr
#7. Girls like me don't get the fairytales.
Because the white knights never want the dirty, damaged girls.
They know there's nothing left of us that's salvageable...nothing left of us that hasn't already been taken and destroyed.
And saving us? Will only ruin them.
Ashley Jade
#8. But hurry! so united, entwined,
mouths broken by love and soul bitten,
time will find us destroyed
Federico Garcia Lorca
#9. And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.
Barry McGuire
#10. like the small votives they lit in church.) Sometimes the houses were deserted, even partially destroyed. Sometimes it seemed the families must still be upstairs. There were old bicycles in some, or baby carriages. A steamer trunk, once, filled with broken dishes. A jar of pickled cauliflower.
Alice McDermott
#11. But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed.
Federico Garcia Lorca
#12. The peace of Manderley. The quietude and the grace. Whoever lived within its walls, whatever trouble there was and strife, however much uneasiness and pain, no matter what tears were shed, what sorrows borne, the peace of Manderley could not be broken or the loveliness destroyed.
Daphne Du Maurier
#13. Their spirit was dead; they were completely destroyed, lost and broken, looking for a reason to live.
Manel Loureiro
#14. No day is an ordinary day; all days are extraordinary, because life itself is extraordinary!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#15. The Nazis had broken our windows and torn apart our furniture, but they had not destroyed our selves.
Robert Sharenow
#16. The one broken window that permanently wouldn't roll up had destroyed her perfectly curled blond prom-hair, and by the time we got to the gym she looked like Marie Antoinette with bedhead.
Kami Garcia
#17. He wanted her to acknowledge that it was she who had bed him the night they gave themselves to each other. That his broken spirit and hers had created rather than destroyed something for the first time in their wretched lives.
Melina Marchetta
#19. I know because I was also broken as a child and forced to become a wicked conniving selfish manipulating monster in order to protect the fragile love-hungry girl who would have been destroyed by the life I had to lead.
Orson Scott Card
#20. When downed American pilots were first taken prisoner in North Vietnam in 1964, U.S. policy became pretty much to ignore them - part and parcel of President Lyndon B. Johnson's determination to keep the costs of his increasingly futile military escalation in Southeast Asia from the public.
Rick Perlstein
#21. 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
#22. She was trying to hide it, the pain I had caused her again. Because she knew how much those tears destroyed me.
Ashleigh Z.
#23. The reality, certainly in my life, is that we all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed by it.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#24. She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.
Anne Bronte
#25. My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher.
Michael Bennet
#26. But she'd been wrong about Vig. He wasn't broken. He wasn't destroyed by a cruel society.
He was just an introvert with an aversion to shaving.
And he liked her.
Liked her, liked her.
Shelly Laurenston
#27. It was the end of civilization, the end of all that men had striven for since the beginning of time. In the space of a few days, humanity had lost its future, for the heart of any race is destroyed, and its will to survive is utterly broken, when its children are taken from it.
Arthur C. Clarke
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