Broken But Quotes

#1. Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.

Frederick Douglass

#2. but Phil looked up and gave them a weak smile. "Well," he said, "this isn't too bad. My left leg is broken, but at least I'm right-legged. That's pretty fortunate." "Gee," one of the other employees murmured. "I thought he'd say something more along the lines of 'Aaaaah! My leg! My leg!

Lemony Snicket

#3. I am beauty, courage, honor, hope and modesty. They are my steady hold, my purity, confidence, pride, and safety. Apart, we are broken. But together, we are whole again.

Kristan Billups

#4. You are not here to fix anything, because nothing is broken, but everything is continually changing and expanding. Release your struggle, and seek joy and fun, and in doing so, you will align with the fantastic expanding rhythm of this Universe.

Esther Hicks

#5. Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection.

Lady Gaga

#6. I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.

Frida Kahlo

#7. He answered the phone to his daughter with a broken but joyous heart, ready to speak with her of astonishment and wonder.

Patrick Ness

#8. You know you're in love when you open your heart knowing there's a chance it may be broken but in opening your heart, you experience a love that you never dreamed possible.

Theresa Lewis

#9. It's not that the system is broken, but clearly there are ways to improve the system, strengthen it, to make sure that we can put together the various bits and pieces of information in a way that allows us to stop every single terrorist out there.

John O. Brennan

#10. I don't want to be a girl who gets her heart broken, but I also don't really want to break boys' hearts.

Jenny Han

#11. I don't remember the moment I knew I was broken ... but I do recall when I started to understand that it might be okay. It was the moment I fell in love with the boy with the green eyes.

John Goode

#12. He's broken, but not broken enough.

Erika Swyler

#13. Hearts don't really get broken, but if you practice too hard with them, they can get quite hurt. It feels like they won't get better, but they do.

Kate Le Vann

#14. Better the little that the righteous have than the wealth of many wicked; 17 for the power of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous. 18 The blameless spend their days under the LORD's care, and their inheritance will endure forever.

Anonymous

#15. As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.

Sitting Bull

#16. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

Frank McCourt

#17. A small, weak part that just wanted to be a little girl again, with a family that wasn't sick and broken. But that sure wasn't going to happen, was it?

James Patterson

#18. I listened to you tell me, tell everyone, and all the world, "Praise the Lord." You were broken, but not by bullets and bombs. You were broken by grace.

N.D. Wilson

#19. Could love be not grand gestures or empty vows, not promises meant to be broken, but instead a paper trail of forgiveness?

Jodi Picoult

#20. Yes, rules are made to be broken -- but ONLY if you have a damn good reason for doing it.

Kevin Hosey

#21. Her heart may be cracked, but it is pure. She may be jaded, but she is hopeful. She may be broken, but she is strong. She may be here, but she will leave.

LeAnne Mechelle

#22. Yes, I'm broken. And yes, he's broken. But the more we talk about it, the more we share our sadness, the more I start to believe that there could be a chance to fix us, a chance that we could save each other.

Jasmine Warga

#23. Not only our political system is broken, but how we do business and have public discourse with one another. The system in Hollywood, specifically, is not depicting people of color; we're not even talking about Asian Americans or Latino Americans; we're not even getting into that question.

Isaiah Washington

#24. I know you got your heart broken but I know the heart can heal, too. And I know what it feels like to love again. I love you so much, I can't sleep at night. Sometimes I forget to breathe. And in a hundred years, that's never going to change.

Susan Wiggs

#25. I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

Lucinda Williams

#26. Her heart was broken, but it had not stopped beating.

Sophie Jordan

#27. If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

Jackie Chan

#28. The sun shall always rise upon a new day and there shall always be a rose garden within me. Yes, there is a part of me that is broken, but my broken soil gives way to my wild roses.

C. JoyBell C.

#29. Could it be as simple as that? Could love be not grand gestures or empty vows, not promises meant to be broken, but instead a paper trail of forgiveness? A line of crumbs made of memories, to lead you back to the person who was waiting?

Jodi Picoult

#30. Adrift in a sea of madness, the sextant is broken, but I can still see the stars.

Jack G. Bowman

#31. Your heart can be broken, but your soul never bleeds.

Deborah Brodie

#32. We're all broken, but thats how the light shines through.

Mira Monroe

#33. My heart was a little bit broken, but I still had to go to school. I buttoned my dress shirt over it and my winter coat, too. I hoped it didn't show too much.

Gabrielle Zevin

#34. I might have felt broken, but at the end of it all, I didn't allow myself to break.

Allison Winn Scotch

#35. You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.

Fannie Flagg

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

Nikita Gill

#37. People say we're weak where we've been broken, but I say we're stronger." Boone traced the long jagged line running right down the center of her. "We're stronger because we know our weak spots and can protect them more carefully the next time.

Nicole Williams

#38. Rules matter, and to be rules they need to be universal in form: always do this, never do that. But it is foolish to rule out in advance the possibility that an occasion might arise when normal rules just don't apply. Rules are not there to be broken, but sometimes break them we must.

Julian Baggini

#39. 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

#40. Rules are made to be broken, but hearts are broken to be made.
It is a big miracle to be loved "because" of your inadequacies, not "despite" them.
And nothing can be as fascinating as walking tall on the same road that once witnessed your fall.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

#41. Everything was so broken, but it would heal. Saxonia will heal. Hollownot will heal. Everything will heal.

I was broken. I will heal.

It is certainty that destroys the souls of men.

J.M. McDermott

#42. We serve life, not because it is broken, but because it is holy.

Mother Teresa

#43. If you love someone, put them in a circle, because hearts can be broken but circles never end.

Karen Amanda Hooper

#44. Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut.

Linda Pastan

#45. You're my missing puzzle piece," she whispers as we continue dancing.
"Your puzzle piece?" I question.

"I'm not broken...but before you; I was never whole, either," she clarifies. "You're the missing piece that made me whole. And now, you're the piece that keeps me from breaking.

Ashley Jade

#46. You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open ... and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places ... if you'll allow it.

Jane Fonda

#47. The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.

Nicolas Roeg

#48. I think my heart has broken, but I have offered the fragments to God.

Philippa Gregory

#49. Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.

Walter Scott

#50. She saw it all. Every dark, dangerous deed. Every dark, ugly kill. Every law he had broken. But most of all she saw his greatness.

Christine Feehan

#51. Another lover hits the universe. The circle is broken. But with death comes rebirth. And like all lovers and sad people, I am a poet.

Allen Ginsberg

#52. No one's too broken. But you can't fix a damn thing. All you can do is figure out which ones want to fix themselves, then give them the tools to get the job done.

Kit Rocha

#53. But be careful; sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not running away.

Francesca Lia Block

#54. We are all a little broken. But last time I checked, broken crayons still color the same.

Trent Shelton

#55. Love can be broken but never forgotten.

Ivy Devlin

#56. Something in me is broken but people don't realize it because I always smile to hide it.

Souad

#57. I would say my heart is broken, but it's not. I don't think it is

Colleen Hoover

#58. I was broken, but I wasn't done.

Kim Harrison

#59. Yes, the world is broken. But don't be offended by it. Instead, thank God that He's intervened in it, and He's going to restore it to everything it was meant to be. His kingdom is breaking through, bit by bit. Recognize it, and wonder at it.

Brant Hansen

#60. He was hard to look at, because he was so broken, but every scarred part of his existence seemed to draw me in. I

Brittainy C. Cherry

#61. who have felt broken but keep moving forward. For all the ones who are searching for something beautiful in the world. You already have it within.

Jennifer Probst

#62. I think you've been hurt too much from an early age. You were trying to fix the world that broke you. When that didn't work you pretended you weren't broken. But you don't have to pretend with me, because no matter what you do I'll always accept you.

Sarah Noffke

#63. Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing. ELIZABETH GILBERT

Melanie Shankle

#64. One arrow alone can be easily broken but many arrows are indestructible.

Genghis Khan

#65. The rod that beat you is broken but you have no reason to be glad. A snake's egg hatches a flying dragon -- The Rule of Void

Ekene Onuorah

#66. Burger King's business model was broken. But it was like sex in the '50s. Everyone knew it, but no one would talk about it.

Greg Brenneman

#67. Something in me had got broken, but not so broken I didn't remember what it was.

Mark Lawrence

#68. Glass ceilings have been broken, but more have to be broken.

Madeleine Albright

#69. I still have your pocket watch, my dear father. Like me, it is broken, but stubborn, and still keeps going.

Arno Hintjens

#70. There's a coward and a fool, and both of them are you, My heart is cracked and broken, but yours is frozen through.

Jay Bell

#71. We are all broken, but sometimes the jagged pieces fit together nicely.

Paul Acampora

#72. You know, people come to therapy really for a blessing. Not so much to fix what's broken, but to get what's broken blessed.

James Hillman

#73. I'm broken, but I have to learn how to live. I feel stuck together with scotch tape, like after any breath everything could come apart. If it does, if it all comes undone, I think I'll fall down and never rise again.

Anna White

#74. I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don't think that was love. I think as I'm getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I'll experience it. At the moment, I don't know, exactly, if I've been in love.

Selena Gomez

#75. [ ... ] we call could be used, not just when we're broken, but especially because we're broken.

Bob Goff

#76. I have invested my heart. There is a chance that it will be broken but also a chance at unlimited happiness.

Beatrice Sparks

#77. You know you may feel very sad like a child whose toy is broken; but then you know sun rises, life continues and you start laughing again!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#78. The things I had were mine and some of them were broken, but they were real. They were so very far from nothing.

Brenna Yovanoff

#79. I don't know what any of this means, but I know that when I thought you were gone, I couldn't breathe. It felt like half of me was missing." I kept babbling, my edit button not only broken, but completely obliterated. "I'm seventeen. Who feels like this at seventeen?

Myra McEntire

#80. The greatest sin you can ever commit is to break a soul, which was already broken but still chose to trust you.

Akshay Vasu

#81. Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.

Hank Green

#82. I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.

Xavier Becerra

#83. Perhaps strength doesn't reside in having never been broken, but in the courage required to grow strong in the broken places. - Kristen

Carine McCandless

#84. It's not just land that is broken, but more importantly, our relationship to land.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#85. Try not to base your decision on this room, it isn't representative of the whole world. Somewhere the sun is hot on a rubbery leaf, clouds are making shapes and reshaping and reshaping, a spiderweb is broken but still works.

Miranda July

#86. I didn't know what kind of creature I was supposed to be until I woke on a hospital cot and was informed I had died. Nobody ever told me what I was. I figured I was broken. But it turns out that my scars were divine signs that I was granted a chance to begin again.

Hannah Ashworth

#87. The goal of coaching is not in fixing what is broken, but in discovering new talents and new ways to use old talents that lead to far greater effectiveness.

Gifford Pinchot

#88. The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one's heart - hearts are made to be broken - but that it turns one's heart to stone.

Oscar Wilde

#89. This is my family. I found it, all on my own. It's little, and broken, but still good. Yeah, still good.

Lil' O

#90. I understand," she says, and then she quotes Du Fu: "The country is broken, but the mountains and rivers remain." Her eyes flash; he catches sight of the fire in this modest woman. "We are the mountains and rivers," he says, impressed. "No matter what the country is called.

Shawna Yang Ryan

#91. The world may be broken but hope is not crazy.

John Green

#92. You've shown me joy where before I saw only despair. You've taught me hope where before I knew only hopelessness. I may be broken, but all my pieces are yours. And I'll work every day of my life to deserve you.

Penny Reid

#93. Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.

Rumi

#94. You know, a heart can be broken, but it still keeps a-beating just the same.

Fannie Flagg

#95. I may be broken, but all my pieces are yours.

Penny Reid

#96. Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Charles Dickens

#97. Ministry is a very confronting service. It does not allow people to live with illusions of immortality and wholeness. It keeps reminding others that they are mortal and broken, but also that with the recognition of this condition, liberation starts.

Henri Nouwen

#98. There are scenes from books I'm happy with. I tend to think my books are all broken. But then my favourite reads are almost always books that don't, in the end, pull off what they set out to do.

Michael Winter

#99. Both battered to shit, both broken. But they were broken together now. Him, her, and their son or daughter. His very own family. And that's all that mattered. They were together, and together

Lucian Bane

#100. 16A little that a righteous man has Is better than the riches of many wicked. 17For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, But the LORD upholds the righteous.

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