Top 33 Burned Your Bridges Quotes
#1. Not an option. You burned your bridges. So keep walking. Do your own time ...
Neil Gaiman
#2. i had a
big smile
on my face
as i burned
the bridges
to all the things
i could not
repair
-does the smoke still choke you?
Amanda Lovelace
#4. The only exercise I get is swimming through the ashes of bridges I have burned
Dean Cavanagh
#5. Anger or hate can be a useful motivating force
Jenny Holzer
#6. I burned by bridges so the devil couldn't follow me.
L.M. Browning
#7. I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.
Michelle Shocked
#9. I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges.
Scott Thompson
#10. I'm grateful for every scar, some pages turned, some bridges burned, but there were lessons learned
Carrie Underwood
#11. Former pleasures meant nothing to me anymore. Life was a series of tasks to be endured, and even the simplest ones were painfully arduous. It took everything I could muster to cook a meal, wash the dishes, or do the laundry. My income was virtually nonexistent. My occupation was therapy.
Rachel Reiland
#12. The way we ended things was not uncommon for kids like us. She said we'd lost enough in our short lives to want to cauterize our wounds before they happened. We burned our connection closed before we felt the holes.
Joshilyn Jackson
#13. When you're with the nWo, when you're with Hollywood, you're just ... too ... sweet!
Hulk Hogan
#14. A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It's close to being functionally flawless - like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google's home page.
Gary Hamel
#15. The only bridge I've ever burned along this legacy I dance is the one that linked the cities of prosperity and chance.
Aesop Rock
#16. Bridges burned and pages turned with every tear that fell from my eyes.
Abigail George
#17. The path to freedom is illuminated by the bridges you have burned, adorned by the ties you have cut, and cleared by the drama you have left behind. Let go. Be free.
Steve Maraboli
#18. You smoke to have fun. I smoke to die.
John Green
#19. Maybe my bravery was just a front and all my tough talk was just the bitter residue of a hundred burned bridges. Maybe it was closer to a thousand bridges crumbling at my feet with the ashes swirling around me, catching in my hair and coating my skin like chalk.
S.J. Wright
#20. Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.
Denise Levertov
#21. He'd imprisoned himself in this castle to rot. He'd cut off all contact with the outside world. And just when he thought he'd burned all his bridges, this woman - this impossible, sweet, foolish woman - arrived, determined to swim the moat. Breach his defenses. Make a home. Stay.
Tessa Dare
#22. When I was 16, I definitely burned a couple of bridges by saying, 'I won't do this!' I was not diplomatic about it. I came to a fitting and was like, 'I don't wear fur; cancel this show!'
Cameron Russell
#23. David Blum burned a lot of bridges. He burned people early in their careers. He took on the wrong people, though. He's not Hunter Thompson or Tom Wolfe, he's David Blum living in a cheap flat.
Rob Lowe
#24. I've had to change careers several times. Sometimes because my interests changed. Sometimes because all bridges have been burned beyond recognition, sometimes because I desperately needed money. And sometimes just because I hated everyone in my old career or they hated me.
James Altucher
#25. When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.
Steven Erikson
#26. Bridges are burned, Iona reminded herself, for the chance to build new ones. Wherever they led--and they'd already brought her closer to who she was than any of the ones before.
Nora Roberts
#27. I never have the nagging doubt of wondering whether perhaps I am wrong.
P. W. Botha
#28. Having destroyed all my connections, burned my bridges, I should feel a certain freedom, and in fact I do. One so intense I am afraid to rejoice in it.
Emil Cioran
#29. The only people who spoke to her were Jimmy Vaughn, who was sweet when he wasn't wasted, though he was wasted all the time ...
Sarra Manning
#30. Lessons learned are like bridges burned you only need to cross them but once. Is the knowledge gained worth the price of the pain, are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?
Dan Fogelberg
#31. Sometimes the bridges you burn light the way out of your darkness, but the memory of the blaze will be burned into your heart and mind forever.
Shannon L. Alder
#32. Boredom will eventually set in ... and one day you'll be standing still on an island, with no idea where to go, because all your bridges will have been burned ... The smaller you are, the larger and more terrifying the world. You should not be trying to reduce yourself so thoroughly.
Kristina Meister
#33. One day I'll be standing at the river looking out across tomorrow, and the bridge I need to get there will be a bridge that I have burned.
Garth Brooks