Top 100 Quotes About Broken Glass
#1. I was so incensed that I was oblivious to all as I ran over broken glass, holding a five-foot weightlifting bar. The glass tore the soles of my feet as I chased the gang's car up the street. I remember breathing heavily as I cursed failing to catch my enemies.
Stephen Richards
#2. A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.
Vera Nazarian
#3. It was so surreal. We're on the road and a split second-BAM-we jump a median-BAM-we jump a curb.
And then there was this house.
And these sounds.
Splintered glass.
Broken bones.
Severed veins.
And that's all I know.
The decisions that we make.
Jason Myers
#4. Nico's voice was like broken glass. "I- I wasn't in love with Annabeth."
"You were jealous of her," Jason said. "That's why you didn't want to be around her. Especially why you don't want to be around ... him. It makes total sense.
Rick Riordan
#5. After expressing his appreciation that his glass is half full rather than being completely empty, he will go on to express his delight in even having a glass: It could, after all, have been broken or stolen.
William B. Irvine
#6. Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.
Robert Frost
#7. I name you Elentiya." She kissed the assassin's brow. "I give you this name to use with honour, to use when other names grow too heavy. I name you Elentiya, 'Spirit That Could Not Be Broken.
Sarah J. Maas
#8. Her face is a map of remembered trouble and absorbed guilt, The green eyes look broken, as if their glass has shattered. A motorway pile-up of wrecked mascara. Lashes jeweled with tears.
Glen Duncan
#9. People who make their living looking into crystal balls are destined to eat a lot of broken glass.
Larry R. Williams
#10. How to describe the bitterness? I was a glass, broken, and the space I once enclosed was now the same as the space around. Deserted space, in which I was lost, sharp knives under my feet. With each step it became less likely that I would ever get anywhere.
Milena Michiko Flasar
#11. We are all broken in some way. But it's all the shattered pieces that give us depth. Like stained glass, it's how the pieces and colors fit together that truly makes us beautiful.
Adriana Law
#12. I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it incredibly.
Ajahn Chah
#13. His broken heart was unfeeling, like shattered glass in an acid bath.
Pete Townshend
#14. When we opened the doors, we saw that the entire room was scorched black and you were on the floor possibly dead, surrounded by broken glass. Window glass is expensive, you realize that?" "Yes, Your Majesty," he said meekly.
Megan Whalen Turner
#15. Those who sit in a glass house do wrong to throw stones about them; besides, the American glass house is rather thin, it will break easily, and the interior is anything but a gainly sight.
Emma Goldman
#16. I'm packed with broken glass and memories and it all hurts.
Henry Rollins
#17. It's funny. Looking back, none of it seems to matter now, those moments of yearning, craving to belong with people I thought mattered. No more fragments of glass, pieces of a broken mirror you can't put back together and wouldn't want to even if you could.
Rebecca Harris
#18. Her heart became a bird, trapped inside the glass box of her chest, flapping violently into wall after invisible wall, crumpling into a heap of broken hollow-bones on the transparent floor.
K.I. Hope
#19. Hemingway had a handy dictum. You want to know if something is morally right? Listen to your stomach. If it sits like broken glass, then it's morally wrong.
Ken Bruen
#20. If you'd spent your life being called "Gyles Brandreth", you would crawl across broken glass to achieve the bliss, the simplicity, the purity, the joy of simply being called "Bob".
Gyles Brandreth
#21. Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.
Helen Clark
#22. her mother had never done what was expected of her, had seemed determined to ignore proprieties. In so doing she had broken the glass ceiling. And it was not all that she had broken.
Brian McGilloway
#23. Broken glass. It's just like glitter, isn't it?
Pete Doherty
#24. He was the one she was doing all this for, but sometimes she missed him so much it felt like she swallowed broken glass.
Cassandra Clare
#25. ...you have to just go on. It's sort of like a bird flying into a plate glass window. And then you just sort of pick yourself up, shake yourself off, and check for anything broken, and go back to work.
Sally Mann
#26. Your half empty..
A broken glass,
I love you can sound so beautiful
Until you stop to listen
That terrible background noise,
you have no idea how bad I want to hold you
But I'm afraid I'll cut my hand.
Brittany Williams
#27. But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.
Ajahn Chah
#28. Why do you hold a razor in one hand?
So men remember that I am sharp as any edge.
And why do you hold broken glass in the other?
So men remember that I am always watching.
Susan Dennard
#29. Their homeopathic letters,
Envelopes full of carefully broken glass
To lodge behind your eyes so you would see
Ted Hughes
#30. And that is also what the movie's about, going beyond success, what is success 'cause I think success is misperceived as just a cake and it isn't. There is many things inside that success. There's a maturity and a heartbreak and sadness and broken glass.
David O. Russell
#31. Broken glass. At the moment, we were barefoot and dancing over a sea of it. But as true as that was, Mickey knew I would dance with him forever if I could, bloody feet and all.
Ka Hancock
#32. Yes.' He drank it all down and then casually threw the glass at the fireplace. I stared at the fragments. 'You don't mind, do you?' He gestured to the broken glass with a sarcastic smile. 'I surely hope you don't, because there's nothing much you can do about it if you do mind.
Anne Rice
#33. In that moment her heart fell out of her chest. Like the glass filled vase he had brought to her, it dropped. It was shattered into a million small pieces.
J.B. McGee
#34. Germans will crawl bollock-naked over broken glass to get low fares.
Michael O'Leary
#35. But I've already broken the glass; I've given the green away; I've made my choice.
Ally Condie
#36. How is he so rich and hot and normal?"
I shake my head, "He's rich and hot, but he's not normal. I see a sickness in his eyes. They're broken like mine. Like a mirror with cracks in it but none of the glass has fallen out of the frame.
Tara Brown
#37. I sang from my belly, from my intricate system of female parts, and from those sacs inside me that wouldn't show up on an ultrasound but held all the rocks and stones and broken glass of want and need I'd managed to collect in seventeen years.
Nina Malkin
#38. He spoke again as if he hadn't just shattered his promise and her security. Her house of glass now lay in a pile of shards.
Aleatha Romig
#40. I am not a broken heart.
I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn't know how to handle anything,
at any time,
and I am not your fault.
Charlotte Eriksson
#41. Dogs see the bigger picture - everything as a whole, not broken pieces of glass that need fixing. - Madison
Pam Torres
#42. I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.
Burl Ives
#43. It was this night that he told me the strange story of his youth with Dan Cody - told it to me because "Jay Gatsby" had broken up like glass against Tom's hard malice, and the long secret extravaganza was played out.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#44. He was like a shattered stained-glass window: something beautiful that's broken; a million colours fallen on the ground where no light can get through.
Glenda Millard
#45. Come on," he says. "And try to avoid the broken glass. Can't have you going to the nurse and meeting some other guy.
Jill Hathaway
#46. I took out a whole fireplace and put in broken glass and installed a burner underneath, so it looks like fire on ice. I did that in my bedroom suite. I'm pretty handy.
Cory Monteith
#47. Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks
Waqar Ahmed
#48. At17, balanced on that precarious walkway between adolescence and adulthood, the world is a crazy obstacle course paved one day with broken glass, the next with apple blossom.
Joanne Harris
#49. You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting the light, shifting into an infinite universe of flowers and rainbows and insects and planets, magical dividing cells, pictures no one else knew ...
Francesca Lia Block
#50. Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass.
Terry Pratchett
#51. She is yet like a diamond on a heap of broken glass.
Mina Loy
#52. I felt a clot in my throat, something that wouldn't let language come ... And there is also a dream I have over and over again, of opening up my mouth and finding my tongue studded with broken glass, so every word is a wound.
Lauren Slater
#53. They made me so smooth like porcelain. Inside I was broken glass. Every fragment was piercing me sharp. At every breath, I felt I was imploding.
Sonia Rao
#54. I'd crawl over broken glass for Elle MacPherson or Cindy Crawford.
Jon Bon Jovi
#55. Lee stood in front of the class the first day and said, "Anybody who makes fun of romance fiction is making fun of Jane Austen, and anybody who makes fun of Jane Austen answers to me." Why yes, I would walk across broken glass for that man. Why do you ask?
Jennifer Crusie
#56. At the tips of the feathers there is air and at their base: blood. I hold up bones; I wish like broken glass they could court light ... still I try to place these pieces back together, to set them firm, to make murdered girls live again.
Alice Sebold
#57. That's what was in my head in the attic when I took broken glass from my tender kit and began to cut myself into tiny pieces.
Kathleen Glasgow
#58. He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head, and though he said he'd come back one day I know a broken promise from a right one for I have used them myself and there is no coming back. Minds like ours are can't be tamed and the price for freedom is the price we pay.
Charlotte Eriksson
#59. The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.
Cassandra Clare
#60. Sometimes it is like juggling with broken glass because both things are very sensitive and have to be handled with care. I can't let the career be neglected and I can't let my family and children be neglected either.
Kelly Price
#61. The butterflies were still alive in the Mason jar. August turned to her and said, "We gon' make it through, Hattie." She snatched the jar from the table and hurled it at the wall behind August. The two of them watched the butterflies, stunned and struggling in the broken glass.O
Ayana Mathis
#62. The acts of daily forbearance, the headache, or toothache, or heavy cold; the tiresome peculiarities of husband or wife, the broken glass ... all of these sufferings, small as they are, if accepted lovingly, are most pleasing to God's Goodness.
Francis De Sales
#63. Not only did Peeves break easily through the giant bell jar, showering an entire corridor with broken glass, he also escaped the trap armed with several cutlasses, crossbows, a blunderbuss and a miniature cannon.
J.K. Rowling
#64. I think we've broken a lot of barriers and kind of shattered our "glass ceiling" that was there for women. There are so many great fighters and we've proved a lot of people wrong. A lot of the times our fights are the best fights on the card.
Miesha Tate
#65. Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass to discourage escaladores, or climbing burglars. The gardens and fountains and other delights are hidden, as in an Arab city.
Charles Portis
#66. Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Bernard Cornwell
#67. An old, round clock, its one remaining hand ornate and frozen under the broken glass at a quarter past two. The
Kyra Wheatley
#68. She suddenly felt herself gasping for air, as if she'd momentarily forgotten how to breathe. She rocked back in her chair and nearly fell over, then slumped against the green-covered table. The bowl fell from her fingers, shattering at her feet, broken glass scattering everywhere.
Joe DeRouen
#69. And she thinks perhaps that is what love is: letting someone else see that part of you that shatters like glass...They will grow old together, broken together, and as long as they both don't completely shatter at the same time, they might find a way to pick each other off the ground.
Thomas Christopher Greene
#70. A very civilized thing, glass - almost an index of civilization. When civilization retreats, it leaves behind broken glass.
John Derbyshire
#71. Bent
like the branches of a tree
broken
like the pieces of my heart
cracked
like the seventeenth moon
shattered
like the glass in the window
the day we met
Kami Garcia
#72. I'm innocent still -inside me are stained glass windows that have never been broken- and when I see your light it stains my soul with color ...
John Geddes
#73. Silent sobbing. No one sees.
Weeping like the willow trees.
Feel my heart about to pop.
Need to make the aching stop.
See moon's shimmer softly pass.
On the shards of broken glass.
Madeleine Kuderick
#74. As Samantha wrapped the ornament in paper, and placed it in a bag, Mrs. Ryan said, "Hearts are like that spun glass, beautiful and fragile, and easily broken." With a Mona Lisa smile, she turned and left the store.
Tamara Hoffa
#75. Here lie your hopes and dreams, shattered and swept aside ...
Dean Koontz
#76. You were a jumble of broken bits of glass the sun caught and stained my soul with your colors ...
John Geddes
#78. And perhaps, because I liked you. His laughter was bitter, like broken glass.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#79. Rahul Dravid is a player who would walk on broken glass if his team asks him to
Navjot Singh Sidhu
#80. Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.
Charles Kingsley
#81. I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.
Angela Carter
#82. The Iron Rule of prudence for an Istanbulite Woman: If you are as fragile as a tea glass, either find a way to never encounter burning water and hope to marry an ideal husband or get yourself laid and broken as soon as possible. Alternatively, stop being a tea-glass woman!
Elif Shafak
#83. As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?
Eddie Condon
#85. And I am ashamed to write here that I felt more alive than ever, even though my heart was broken glass in my chest.
Nick Drake
#86. You trip over a word while carrying
a tray of vocabulary out to the pool
only to discover that broken glass
is a good topic.
Billy Collins
#87. The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#88. But be careful; sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not running away.
Francesca Lia Block
#89. There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand ... with every blade of light that flashed off the sand, from a bleached shell or a peice of broken glass, my jaws tightened. I walked for a long time.
Albert Camus
#90. Picking up the pieces of a broken relationship is like gathering up shards of glass with bear hands and eyes closed.
Michael Faudet
#91. I'm not a fair woman," she choked out. "I want impossible, contradictory things. I'm all hard edges, Sebastian. Hard edges and crumpled pieces and broken pieces of glass. There is no way for you to win this.
Courtney Milan
#92. I found an empty chair
and sat on it
to find myself even emptier.
I found a broken glass
and looked at it
to see my dissolved face
a little prettier
I found a steep doorway
and entered
in order to close my exit.
From the poem 'Blue Stanzas
Munia Khan
#93. The trouble with rules, though, is that you'll always be tempted to break one- for the right reasons, due to unavoidable circumstances, because it feels as if there's no other choice. And once you break one, the rest seem like so much broken glass. The damage is already done.
Stacey Kade
#94. It was the color of ice and honey and sky and rain mixed together into a sheet of flawless glass with broken frothy edges that tickled my feet
Kiera Cass
#95. I stumbled into the living room, and Thomas handed me a bottle of whiskey. They all had some in a glass
"You told them?" I asked Trenton, my voice broken.
Trenton nodded.
I collapsed to my knees, and my brothers surrounded me, placing their hands on my head and shoulders for support.
Jamie McGuire
#96. The shattered glass
Of soundproof walls
That can block the night no more
Is scattered, alas,
On the broken stillness
Of a distant, darkened shore.
L.S. Hartfield
#97. Even though on the outside we glittered like gold, inside we were almost as black as coal. Sometimes the glitter people saw was only the shattered pieces reflecting among the broken glass.
Tracy Krimmer
#98. I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible.
Julian Baggini
#100. I haven't done anything wrong. "Get off me!"
"You're kidding, right? You've injured a sheriff, broken in and entered a house, stole a car - mine - stole Hal Haverton's clothes, broken a glass, and littered.
Terry Spear
