Top 100 Fall Apart Quotes
#1. That's the thing about things. They fall apart, always have, always will, it's in their nature.
Ali Smith
#2. It's long since I've gone to the East Mountains.
How many seasons have the tiny roses bloomed?
White clouds - unblown - fall apart.
In whose court has the bright moon dropped?
Li Bai
#3. Love isn't enough so you have to work your tail off to make up that last twenty percent. Don't rely on love, rely on your head and your heart and the knowledge that working and being in love is way better than slacking off and having it all fall apart later.
Lauren Dane
#4. Better for things to fall apart a little now, while you can still put them back together, than for you to wait until there's no hope.
Noelle Adams
#5. You were standin' way too close to see it fall apart. And there were things you couldn't hear, 'cause you were listening with your heart.
Garth Brooks
#6. Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.
Jim Carrey
#7. Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion and Papa flung his heavy missal across the room and broke the figurines on the etagere.(Opening page, 3)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#8. I don't take success very well, because I know it's fleeting. And the next day, it can all fall apart. I know that, too. So I don't get too high, and I don't get too low. You get through the world a lot easier that way.
James Garner
#9. That is sacrilegious. You just totally dissed man code. If we don't have man code, the world will fall apart."
Kip Paxton
Sasha Marshall
#10. That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart.
Audrey Niffenegger
#11. A company that cannot successfully implement the 5S's cannot expect to effectively integrate JIT, re-engineering, or any other large-scale change. Good workplaces develop beginning with the 5S's. Bad workplaces fall apart beginning with the 5S's.
Hiroyuki Hirano
#12. If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will fall apart.
William Zinsser
#13. No matter how skillful you are, you can't invent a product advantage that doesn't exist. And if you do, and it's just a gimmick, it's going to fall apart anyway.
William Bernbach
#14. Everything that comes together falls apart. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you stopped suffering when they did.
John Green
#15. You need to allow yourself to fall apart. Just this once, when I am holding you close. Tomorrow night you can be strong again,
Christine Feehan
#16. Destiny is like a book. It needs manufacturing, the pulp process, the glue fixed tightly
and it requires a binding, to hold it together, lest it fall apart.
Lavie Tidhar
#17. Talk about enchantment. Forget about working for something just to have it fall apart on you. Let the magic come. That's what I say. Let the magic come and fill in every inch of that little black crack behind your breastbone.
Tim Tharp
#18. That was beautiful.
She is holding my hand.
No, it wasn't.
If she let go, I would fall apart.
It was. It was beautiful because it was honest and it was beautiful because it hurt and it was beautiful because you didn't have to tell it to me.
Fall apart.
It makes me feel like shit.
James Frey
#19. We have to make sure that when we make choices as a society, people understand the choices, agree with them, and are behind them. Otherwise, the system is going to fall apart.
Juan Enriquez
#20. It takes a whole lot longer to pull ourselves together than it takes to fall apart..
Shilpa Menon
#21. When you try to do something bigger and more grandiose, a lot of times it's more apt to fall apart. It's a lot easier to lay down a bunch of singles than it is to get a home run.
Jim Lee
#22. Seems like nothing's getting safer or better," I said. "Seems like everything's getting worse."
"Maybe that's what's gotta happen," Willa Mae said.
"Maybe everything's gotta break lose and fall apart before we can put it back together again right.
Margaret McMullan
#23. I think it's all that's holding me together," Kade said. "Then perhaps you should fall apart," Ananda replied.
Ramez Naam
#24. The Great Sadness
You can't look at yourself
in the ocean.
Your looks fall apart
like tendrils of light.
Night on earth.
Federico Garcia Lorca
#25. Word books traditionally focus on unusual and quirky items. They tend to ignore the words that provide the skeleton of the language, without which it would fall apart, such as 'and' and 'what,' or words that provide structure to our conversation, such as 'hello.'
David Crystal
#26. There's always a race against time. I don't think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? One's body starts to fall apart.
Gloria Grahame
#27. Courtship is exciting and romantic because it thrives on the edge of disaster. It co-exists with the threat that, at any moment, it could fall apart and be lost forever.
Karen Scalf Linamen
#28. Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is lost
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with passionate intensity.
W.B.Yeats
#29. I always stay out of the rehearsal room you know when they first come in. Then once they had chance to play a little bit, then I walk in. Because I've seen guys fall apart.
Ray Charles
#30. I never fall apart, because I never fall together.
Andy Warhol
#31. I was so happy renting in New York City for so long because renting - or at least the way I rented, which involved never lifting a finger to better my surroundings - allows you to let things literally fall apart all around you. Then, when it gets to be too much, you just move on.
Maggie Nelson
#32. When you consider the many pressures that couples face today, only an iron-clad determination will hold them together for a lifetime. Those who go into marriage with a mushy commitment are likely to wobble and fall apart when the hard times come. And as we all know, hard times will come.
James C. Dobson
#33. not because they are based on any kind of fact. I'm not that smart, but I'm smart enough to know to ask questions. And sometimes all you have to do is ask questions and things that aren't true fall apart under examination.
Bobby Adair
#35. You know, things fall apart. You grieve. And then you sit around and wait for things to somehow get perfect again. But they don't. They never can. There is no perfect. There's just different. But different can be wonderful.
Sarah Jio
#36. it's a good thing I'm used to this;
the process of shutting things out
as they fall apart,
the pretence of cool
in a dry, hot season,
the taste of redemption
in a t.v. screen
if God had a voice
what would it say?
Hima Raza
#37. Today, God, help me to know that it is okay to allow myself to be human. Help me not to feel guilty or punish myself when I need to "fall apart.
Melody Beattie
#38. Maybe it is desperation," I say. "Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love."
He looks at me, and in the sunlight his eyes come alive with greens and golds. "Sometimes we can," he says.
Lauren DeStefano
#39. I am difficult to love, and I know it. I never learned the unconditional part, so trust evades me. Add sex and I fall apart, eventually retreating back into the swamp. Very few people can put up with me, and I can't blame them. I am a constant contradiction. I annoy myself.
Rosie O'Donnell
#40. Because you let our love just fall apart
You no longer have my heart
Boyz II Men
#41. Sometimes," he replies and pulls me into his arms, hugging me tight, "two people have to fall apart before they can realize how much they need to fall back together. And now that you know better, you can do better.
Kristen Proby
#42. i knew she'd leave me. i figure we might as well go somewhere memorable to fall apart
Felicia Luna Lemus
#43. What do we do after things fall apart? Do we run to the familiar once again? Do we attempt to numb the pain with distractions? What do we do after things fall apart?
Benyf
#44. In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don't suck with people who don't suck.
John Green
#45. Sometimes you just have to let everything fall apart.
Pema Chodron
#46. It's been a long day. I got shot at, got a water tower dumped on my head, and had my wedding fall apart. Now Wayne is dropping broken walnut shells all over my chair. Honestly, I think I just need a drink.
Brandon Sanderson
#47. Of course, the EU is not going to fall apart, but at best it will stagnate for the foreseeable future and we will be dealing with quite a lot of internal chaos.
Peter Mandelson
#48. I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway,
#49. For the first few weeks after we'd gotten back together, I'd been worried that things might fall apart again, not sure that I was up to being in a real relationship, one with actual stakes and feelings and something to lose
Morgan Matson
#50. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.
Suzanne Collins
#51. As a result, in more than three dimensions the sun would not be able to exist in a stable state with its internal pressure balancing the pull of gravity. It would either fall apart or collapse to form a black hole, either of which could ruin your day.
Stephen Hawking
#52. Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin.
Bryant H. McGill
#53. If a book remained roadblocked long enough, it began to decay, to fall apart; all the little tricks and illusions started to show. He
Stephen King
#54. If you want to know about Africa, read our literature
and not just 'Things Fall Apart,' because that would be like saying, 'I've read 'Gone with the Wind' and so I know everything about America.
Chris Abani
#55. I forgot how fucking gorgeous you are when you fall apart for me.
Ella Frank
#56. I've always been good at putting things behind me - I fall apart, do my crying bit and then put it away and move it.
Paula Radcliffe
#57. The truth will form and fall apart again.
Sarah Slean
#58. Things fall apart, even when you think they're stronger than anything you could ever imagine.
Susane Colasanti
#59. She was going to burst, or fall apart. Something. She couldn't keep feeling like this. The emptiness inside her was too big; it would swallow her whole.
Lili Wilkinson
#60. Entropy increases. Things fall apart.
John Green
#61. Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.
Ben Nicholson
#62. The military part of our information network - which we were accustomed to rely on for exact information - was the first part of the network to fall apart
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#63. That may have been how they survived, Kira realizes: thanks to their ability not to fall apart at the same time.
Fredrik Backman
#64. I don't believe in getting clothes that just look pretty or that'll fall apart - they have to stand up to a lot of abuse.
Lilith Saintcrow
#65. You make the puzzle work. Without you, we're just a bunch of pieces that look like we belong together, but no matter how hard we try to hold on to each other, we fall apart. You're the glue. You're the fifth piece that makes everything fit just right.
Catherine Gayle
#66. There is all this time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart.
John Green
#67. We fall in love and let our minds fall apart..
We let ourselves fall, and keep falling..
Our minds are caught by one another, mixed up in a random puzzle, piece by piece put together into a different reality.
M. Cochet M.
#68. I've always wanted to make a big apocalypse movie. I love 28 Weeks Later, I think it's great but Cell is totally different. It's about people's dependence on technology, the collapse of society and watching everything fall apart. That's something I've always wanted to do, which I believe it can!
Eli Roth
#69. Where I think that 3D will fall apart is going to be as audiences now get treated to incredibly artistic utilizations of space. I think the films that are just sort of done as 3D transfer type films, the audience will perceive the difference in that.
Christopher Meledandri
#70. No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air.
Charles Eisenstein
#71. Details are where a theory can be held together or fall apart. The same is true about a plot.
Sarah Richards
#72. When you're supposed to be working, work, and when you're supposed to be playing, play. It's a weird tightrope you're walking, but it's only when you get your priorities mixed up that things fall apart.
Gary Keller
#73. We are seeing it. We are seeing the fabric of this country fall apart, and it's falling apart because of single moms.
Rick Santorum
#74. Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.
Scott Westerfeld
#75. Maybe it is desperation. Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love.
Lauren DeStefano
#76. Sometimes good things the best things coincide fall apart.
Marilyn Monroe
#77. For the rest, silence or good music, not much food, a lot of solitude, walks on the Heath, the time to think while others ... well, often fall apart. Not so bad, not so bad at all. Being queer and self-sufficient is the best present at this season.
Will Self
#78. He said it like tumbling, like if he didn't get it out quickly enough, we'd both fall apart. But weren't we doing that already?
Jodi Meadows
#79. From His eternal perspective, it's tolerable to allow our temporary dreams to fall apart.
Jennie Allen
#80. My mother had told me once when I was little and had a friendship fall apart that some relationships just end. Like a star, they burn bright and brilliant, and then nothing in particular goes wrong, they just reach their end.
Cora Carmack
#82. To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.
Christopher Nolan
#83. When you have true love in your heart,
You will never be depressed or fall apart.
Debasish Mridha
#84. Things fall apart;
the center cannot hold...
W.B.Yeats
#85. This is the problem with illusions: They form easy enough, but once they fall apart, they're impossible to put back together. They're like humans in that way.
Hugh Howey
#86. When we can't bottle our tears up anymore, God catches every one in His bottle. God's catching every falling tear because He won't let us fall apart.
Ann Voskamp
#87. if I stay with him any longer, he'll unstitch me, and I really can't fall apart now. Bitterness is the only thing holding me together. Without it, I'm shapeless.
Leisa Rayven
#88. When something bad happens to me, I think I'm able to deal with it in a pretty good way. That makes me lucky. Some people fall apart at the first little thing that happens.
Christie Brinkley
#89. America is an unsolvable problem: a nation divided and deeply in hate with itself. If it was a startup, we'd understand how unfixable the situation is; most of us would leave for a fresh start, and the company would fall apart. America is MySpace.
Michael Arrington
#90. There's no point in making a plan because somehow it always manages to fall apart.
Jami Wagner
#91. We don't want him, we want you.-- Cooper Hawkes.
This isn't a dating service. We're in the middle of a war. If we stop following orders, there will be no order. It'll all fall apart.- T.C. McQueen
James Morrison
#92. One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn't fall apart.
Linda Poindexter
#93. Sometimes two people need to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together."
I take her hand and rest it between us, then stroke the back of it with my thumb. "Let's not fall apart again," I whisper.
She looks me in the eyes. "Never.
Colleen Hoover
#94. When everything seems to fall apart..that's when everything new you prayed for has room to enter your life..
Doreen Virtue
#95. There was something so scary and heartbreaking about watching your lifetime Superwoman fall apart in front of you.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#96. Things weren't permanent, things could always fall apart, never get too comfortable, and even those you trust, those you trust as authority figures and role models, are liable to show themselves as illusions.
Michael Hastings
#97. Life doesn't change when you meet a guy and life doesn't fall apart when you break up with one. We are teaching young female readers the wrong things through books not only expressing this point, but also using these two concepts as turning plot points of novels.
Meghan Blistinsky
#98. Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.
Yo-Yo Ma
#99. You only really fall apart in front of the people you know can piece you back together.
Sarah Dessen
#100. You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things fall apart, letting the world come as it is - working with it rather than struggling against it. You're the only one who knows.
Pema Chodron
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