Fall Apart Quotes

#1. I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.

Karl Lagerfeld

#2. Once you start altering your body's blueprint, things start falling apart. Some players take steroids, and two years later, after they've broken records, suddenly they have back problems, shoulder problems, arm problems. They're out of the game for good.

Charlie Sheen

#3. Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart.

Ezra Taft Benson

#4. When our world falls apart and we have no more faces to wear - that's when it's beautiful, and that's when we change.

Jon Foreman

#5. When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the presence of God.

Shauna Niequist

#6. It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart
even when I'm sure I will.

Judy Blume

#7. And now he was mine and I said we should not let our love be threatened.
We should not let the family fall apart.
We should not accept an evil we can change.
We would stand up against it, would we not?
Yes. We should.
We would be heroes, even.

E. Lockhart

#8. Things fall apart, and fade, and when these things happen you just need to pick yourself up and start over,

Evan Reeves

#9. She was his; he was hers. The world could fall apart, and they'd still be one.

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

#10. Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together.

Jessica Howell

#11. I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart.

Joyce Carol Oates

#12. As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.

Karen Kingsbury

#13. If you try to control it too much, the book is dead. You have to let it fall apart quite early on and let it start doing its own thing. And that takes nerve, not to panic that the book you were going to write is not the book you will have at the end of the day.

Anne Enright

#14. Human beings, you see, fall apart all the time. In many different ways. That is the central theme. There is no need to disguise it.

Patrick Somerville

#15. You can't be young always. The day will come when everything will fall apart.

Clive James

#16. There is nothing in this life that can destroy you but yourself. Bad things happen to everyone, but when they do, you can't just fall apart and die. You have to fight back. If you don't, you're the one who loses in the end. But if you do keep going and fight back, you win.

Alexandra Monir

#17. Wallets can establish connections and change opinions. Things that fall apart can be glued back by money with astonishing alacrity.

Robert Walser

#18. Isaiah is my rock. The string that holds me together when I'm ready to fall apart. He's the anchor that keeps me from floating away when I go too far. His heart has been the one constant rhythm in my life and I don't want to let it go.

Katie McGarry

#19. I think [aging] has nothing to recommend it. You don't gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People try and put a nice varnish on it, and say, well, you mellow. You come to understand life and accept things. But you'd trade all of that for being 35 again.

Woody Allen

#20. Step by step, heart to heart, left right left. We all fall down like toy soldiers. Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win.

Eminem

#21. I always felt the world cannot fall apart as long as free men see the rainbow, feel the rain and hear the laugh of a child.

Frank Capra

#22. I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.

Chuck Palahniuk

#23. Life is a process where people mix and match, fall apart and come back together.

Nikki Giovanni

#24. Trust in God's timing. It's better to have to wait a while and have things fall into place then to rush into something and have things fall apart.

Adam Cappa

#25. Plastic surgery is a way for people to buy themselves a few years before they have to truly confront what ageing is, which of course is not that your looks are falling apart, but that you are falling apart and some-day you will have fallen apart and ceased to exist.

Nora Ephron

#26. If you are in business trying to make it, things are falling apart and you can't get it together and you don't know what is going on and you wanna stop. Don't stop. The only way you can make it and have true success in your life. And there's one way. You can't have any fear.

Tyler Perry

#27. How can you know when you are trusting in man rather than in God? If you fall apart when someone else lets you down, or if the actions of others affect your walk with God, then you know you are leaning on the arm of flesh!

David Wilkerson

#28. I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one solid scene doesn't have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#29. Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.

Lucille Clifton

#30. First-class delivery of children's palliative care is life-changing. When families are confronted with the shattering news that their children have a life-limiting condition, their world can fall apart.

Kate Middleton

#31. I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three.

Chris Martin

#32. I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.

Tan Le

#33. Unless was a sword held carefully by the blade. A single slip and all the delicate designs could fall apart in a clatter of severed fingers.

Sean DeLauder

#34. I think of sardines and their backbones. You can eat their backbones. The bones crumble between your teeth; one touch and they fall apart. This must be what my own backbone is like: hardly there at all. What is happening to me is my own fault, for not having more backbone.

Margaret Atwood

#35. Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#36. It's only a matter of time before it all starts to fall apart, before things start to fall off. Short legs, long body. The kind of person who in the Middle Ages would come up over the hill on his horse, and they'd say, 'Get Wogan,' and I'd be there with my shield, the first to die.

Terry Wogan

#37. Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie.

Shannon L. Alder

#38. Lives fall apart when they need to be rebuilt.

Iyanla Vanzant

#39. That, to me, is the quintessential experience of living in the United States: constantly worrying whether or not the country is about to fall apart.

Sarah Vowell

#40. And there's nothing sadder, nothing harder in the world than watching the person you love fall apart right before your eyes - and you can't say or do anything to change it.

Jay McLean

#41. The amalgam of psychological attitudes we form is the synthetic complex. It may fall apart quite quickly as further reflection or further experience bears on it, and we may revert to our former judgments, feelings and tendencies.

Philip Kitcher

#42. Pope Francis insists that mercy is at the very top of the Christian hierarchy of great truths, and everything falls apart whenever mercy is displaced by anything else.

Richard Rohr

#43. Never be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along.

Rae Smith

#44. Your health is the most important commodity that you have. Without it, everything will fall apart - relationships, financial wellbeing, career, school, and so on. It is very important to take good care of yourself.

John Rogers

#45. I knew I was having a panic attack. I hadn't had one in a while, though, and I'd forgotton how they made everything like it- and I- was going to fall apart. How they reminded me of how trapped I was.

Elizabeth Scott

#46. Plans fall apart and time moves on.

Sarah Beth Durst

#47. Ananda: that joy without which the universe will fall apart and collapse.

Madeleine L'Engle

#48. I can fake a smile. I can force a laugh. I can dance and play the part of that's what you ask. Give you all I am. But I am only human. I bleed when I fall down. I'm only human I crash and I break down. Your words in my head. Knives in my heart. You build me up and then I fall apart.

Christina Perri

#49. We got a new song called 'Ashes in Your Mouth,' and it is NOT about a joint falling apart.

Dave Mustaine

#50. When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky.

NoViolet Bulawayo

#51. Things will happen that you can't prevent, things will fall apart that you can't hold together, but ultimately you're shaping yourself and that final product speaks volumes about who you really are, not what people see you as or what you want to be.

Erik Tomblin

#52. Make sure you have the right team members to strengthen your culture instead of people who suck the energy out of it. You can do everything right as a leader and coach, but if you don't have positive mentors and team members in the locker room your culture and team will fall apart.

Jon Gordon

#53. I'm going to fuck you until you fall apart...dissolve in my fingers. Then I'll soothe your shattered soul and stitch you back together until everything has new meaning and Cairo is the only word you have for pleasure, remember?

Jaden Wilkes

#54. The falcon cannot hear the falconer

William Butler Yeats

#55. Sometimes there is no way to hold your life together. Sometimes things just have to fall apart.

Katherine Center

#56. When they're together, the world could fall apart around them and they'd never notice or care as long as they have each other.
About Alex and Brittany.

Simone Elkeles

#57. His lips, wet, met mine with a brush of heat. I felt both his hands wrap around my back, holding me to him as if he'd fall apart otherwise. While the rain pummeled the roof, the whole world went silent.

Kiera Cass

#58. When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?

Jodi Picoult

#59. This was one of those non-glamorous parts about college that people never tell you about - worrying that the dilapidated apartment hosting a party would fall apart with you in it.

Alyssa Rose Ivy

#60. And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.

John Green

#61. But things don't just fall apart. People break them.

Robin Wasserman

#62. Otherwise I'll fall apart. I'm going to fall apart. I am falling apart.

Tabitha Suzuma

#63. Before something great happens, everything falls apart. Just hold on long enough to get through the smoke screen.

Keith Sweat

#64. When someone tells you it's a grain of sand, there's a moment where your reality falls apart and you have to reconstruct it. You have to step back and ask what the image is and what it means.

Vik Muniz

#65. As gold and silver are weighed in pure water, so does the soul test its weight in silence, and the words that we let fall have no meaning apart from the silence that wraps them round.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#66. As cruel as life might be at times, if you throw in the towel, which is what everyone will expect, then nothing good will happen and your life will fall apart. Be better than that!

Bill Courtney

#67. Don't be too hard on yourself!
You'll fall apart if you tumble.

Toba Beta

#68. Everything is falling together perfectly, even though it looks as if some things are falling apart. Trust in the process you are now experiencing.

Neale Donald Walsch

#69. There were times when it would have been easy to fall apart or to go in the opposite direction, but somehow I felt that if I took on more step, someone would come along to join me.

Rosa Parks

#70. Come back to your Master. He's going to fall apart without you in his life. Don't leave me, angel.

Joey W. Hill

#71. Nothing ever works like you predict it. All plans fall apart as soon as the first shot is fired.

Lee Child

#72. You can't look at yourself
in the ocean.
Your looks fall apart
like tendrils of light.
Night on earth.

- The Great Sadness

Federico Garcia Lorca

#73. It's an understandable impulse, to be on the floor when everything is falling apart, like you just want to feel the solid ground beneath you. When you're on the floor, there's nowhere farther to fall.

Emery Lord

#74. We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart.

Bonnie Raitt

#75. Even very great things, he meant, can't last forever. Or beautiful things, I suppose. Those too. Things that don't really need replacing except because they fall apart.

Emma Richler

#76. Great captains earned their reputation not just for laying brilliant plans, but for still being able to find victory after those plans began to fall apart.

Robert Jordan

#77. If she could keep breathing, she wouldn't fall apart.

Sarah J. Maas

#78. It is a curious thing, watching a strong man fall to pieces.

Jodi Picoult

#79. Neal lowered his eyebrows, tenderly, like he was untangling something that might fall apart in his hands. He opened his mouth to speak, but Georgie leaned in

Rainbow Rowell

#80. You don't choose who you fall in love with, do you? And once you do fall in love - that obsessive sort of love, that all-consuming love, where two people can't stand to be apart from each other for even a moment - how are you supposed to let a love like that pass you by?

Jordan Belfort

#81. He punches the steering wheel. And then he breaks. The boy I love breaks. And there's nothing sadder, nothing harder in the world than watching the person you love fall apart right before your eyes - and you can't say or do anything

Jay McLean

#82. In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.

Marianne Williamson

#83. Religion is always falling apart.

Alan Watts

#84. After all, computers crash, people die, relationships fall apart. The best we can do is breath and reboot.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#85. It's tough getting older. You start falling apart, you know? My gums are starting to recede now. You can't tell tonight, though, 'cause I comb them forward.

Kevin Nealon

#86. Don't be quick to leave the class of discipline; you shall only live to remember the last lesson.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#87. If you see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn't!

Vance Havner

#88. Besides, everywhere, life is getting longer, marriages fall apart, divorce is a reality that happens even where the law doesn't sanction it. It remains the tradition that women are trusted to take care of the children.

Dacia Maraini

#89. The Gospels fall apart without miracles. Today's discomfort with the miraculous reflects a fundamental unwillingness to believe God can do anything. Frankly, if God can create the world out of nothing, having his son still a storm to me seems reasonable.

Anonymous

#90. The epistolary form is one of the hardest to write. It's so hard to show something that's bigger in a letter. Plus, you have to have the balance of how many letters are going to work to tell the story and how few are going to make it fall apart.

Jacqueline Woodson

#91. To give up is easy. But to hold it together when everyone else thinks you'd fall apart is true strength.

Erin Andrews

#92. Who says you have to be strong anymore? You are allowed to fall apart, because I will hold you through it. You can crumble, and I'll hold the pieces together until you can pull yourself out of it.

Amelia Hutchins

#93. One way or another, I have wound up destroying what I've loved. I've seen my dreams fall apart just when I seemed to achieve them. I always thought that was just the way life was. My life and everybody else's.

Paulo Coelho

#94. If I'd ever seen what love really could do, or was, maybe I'd have believed in it from the start. But too much of my life had been spent watching marriages come together and then fall apart. So I understood, yes. But sometimes, like lately, I wished that I didn't, not at all.

Sarah Dessen

#95. There's no way we could take cars off the planet and not have our society fall apart. So they're a necessary evil, in that sense.

Lindsay Wagner

#96. That I should just dive in and let my world fall apart and rebuild itself. That if I can embrace change, I can embrace death, and that is the secret to liberation.

Suzanne Morrison

#97. In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.

Billie Jean King

#98. You're afraid he'll leave you and you'll fall apart. You don't know that you can get along without him and you're afraid to find out because then your whole potty theory will come tumbling down. You'll have to stop thinking of yourself as weak and dependent and you hate that.

Erica Jong

#99. When you stop wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you stop suffering when they do.

John Green

#100. The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.

Tony Parsons