Top 100 Quotes About Broken
#1. Promises," his gran had said once, her sour commentary on the whole affair, "are like pie crusts - meant to be broken.
John Harvey
#2. All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.
Thomas Pynchon
#3. Maybe it's okay to not feel strong, to carry an unspoken broken. And . . . to speak it?
Ann Voskamp
#4. I like how glasses suggest intelligence instead of broken eyes.
Kelly Oxford
#5. People think, because we're young, we aren't complex, but that's not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.
Rihanna
#7. For a moment the image before us is frozen: our world, our lives, reduced to a handful broken stars half lost in uncharted space. Then it's gone, the view swallowed by the hyperspace winds streaming past, blue-green auroras wiping the after-images away.
Until all that's left is us
Amie Kaufman
#8. Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together
Thoughts so all unlike each other;
To mutter and mock a broken charm,
To dally with wrong that does no harm.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#9. You aren't broken, Will. You are a survivor.
Kristy Love
#10. As soon as it's out of my mouth, I cringe, realizing that it's probably pretty crappy to complain about your parents to someone who doesn't have any. It's like bitching that your shoes are too tight to someone who's walking across broken glass barefoot.
Katja Millay
#11. Only nurture a broken heart that recognizes it, and is willing to put in the work of minding.
T.F. Hodge
#12. Amory had loved himself in Eleanor, so now what he hated was only a mirror. Their poses were strewn about the pale dawn like broken glass.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#13. The reality, certainly in my life, is that we all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed by it.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#14. The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts fossil hunters, who depend on the planet to open itself to us. We can only scratch away at what natural forces have brought to the surface.
Jack Horner
#15. A broken love can still last forever so long as you carry the pieces close to your heart.
B.B. Reid
#16. Silence - the applause of real and durable impressions - was broken by no one; each respected in the other the thoughts he felt to be the same as his own.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#17. A world's full of broken hearts. That's all this is. I wondered if there was anyone above the age of say, 18, in the world who hadn't had their hearts broken at some point.
David Bowick
#18. BAREFOOT BEACH
Take off your shoes-
You're on barefoot beach.
Relax in the sunshine-
Broken only by trees.
Giorge Leedy
#19. A soul cannot be broken. It is not a teacup. If you have suffered abuse of any kind, know that perfection exists untarnished within you.
Jewel
#20. There was once a spirited feral mustang broken in by her stern rider. It was a harmonious relationship for the most part but, like any relationship, she tested the boundaries he placed on her and threw him ... Would the rider, having suffered his own wound, retaliate, discipline or forgive?
Donna Lynn Hope
#21. Apologies weren't welds; they were just an admission that something had been broken.
Hugh Howey
#23. And what am I? (Adron)
You're kind and decent. You have a good heart. (Livia)
I have no heart at all. What I have is a mechanical substitute that pumps blood through a broken body, and half the time it malfunctions. (Adron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#24. I wasn't angry with God that I lost my husband. I was devastated; I was broken. I still am, in many ways. But I feel like God gives free will to everyone, and people who want to choose evil, they have that same free will.
Taya Kyle
#25. My heart was simultaneously broken and filled with lust, I was exhausted, and I loved every minute of it. It was strange and elating to find myself for once the weaker.
Michael Chabon
#26. If you want to get broken in good, put four girls on the road together in a van and tour up and down the country.
Valerie June
#27. This story is for all the slightly broken people out there. I am one of you. You are not alone. You are all beautiful to me.
Patrick Rothfuss
#28. I said in one of my letters, my dear Margaret, that I should find no friend on the wide ocean; yet I have found a man who, before his spirit had been broken by misery, I should have been happy to have possessed as the brother of my heart.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#29. Broken doesn't mean we're valued any less, it just means we've loved someone so much and so fiercely that losing them feels like we've lost part of ourselves.
B.N. Toler
#30. Your kind has a superstitious terror of things ugly and broken; you fear that their condition may somehow infect you.
Clive Barker
#31. I met a man; broken as can be,
A smile upon his face; no shoes upon his feet,
He said one thing " young one , you listen clear"
The choices you make now; will always reappear,
Live to your heart but do wrong to none,
Because when your old like me; you'll remember all you have done.
Nikki Rowe
#32. Basically, it says that the world has been broken into pieces. All this chaos, all this discord. And our job - everyone's job - is try to put the pieces back together. To make things whole again.
Rachel Cohn
#33. One of the most challenging ways is to slow down enough to relax our heart and feel what is nearest. It could be the sun reflecting off of broken glass in an alley. It could be the shine on a crow. It could be snow on a lamp post.
Mark Nepo
#34. The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute.
E. O. Wilson
#36. Big cities comforted me: the cover, the chaos, the hollow sympathy of the architecture, the Tube lines snaking underground. London could swallow you up, in a good way. There were times when I'd been broken and being subsumed into a city had made me feel part of a whole again.
Emma Jane Unsworth
#37. She was another broken doll dreaming of a boy with glue.
Atticus Poetry
#38. The six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away from the person you loved, meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#39. Stitches aren't going to help. They fix skin, cuts, wounds, heal stuff on the outside. Everything broken with me is on the inside.
Jessica Sorensen
#40. The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul.
Samuel Chadwick
#41. Well, we're trying to patch and fix and put a cast on a broken system here. You can call it what you want, but we'll continue to purchase power in a private market.
Gray Davis
#42. Data is just like crude. It's valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed into gas, plastic, chemicals, etc., to create a valuable entity that drives profitable activity; so must data be broken down, analyzed for it to have value.
Michael Palmer
#43. The war must have broken God's heart, Anna. How could he stand to watch what we did to each other?
Dean Hughes
#44. By the way, when you finish the bottle of Crown Royal, you can still use the pouch to hold your broken dreams.
Jon Stewart
#45. If your headlight is broken, stop travelling in the darkness! Either you travel with the light or sit tight wherever you are!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#46. A red leaf danced from a branch like a dropping flame, down into the calm blue lake. A gust had broken it free. There was a cold bite in the wind.
It was now deep autumn in the mountains.
Aspen Matis
#47. I'm not brave any more darling. I'm all broken. They've broken me.
Ernest Hemingway,
#48. There's a simplicity and a sense of adventure to being alone, and I sometimes envy you for having it, as you explore Paris. Even when you're getting your heart broken, you can still wake up and not know what's going to happen next.
Jessica Pan
#49. You ever tried to pick up your teeth with a bunch of broken fingers
Triple H
#50. Time does not heal,
It makes a half-stitched scar
That can be broken and again you feel
Grief as total as in its first hour.
-Elizabeth Jennings
Kay Redfield Jamison
#51. Because of your love I have broken with my past
Rumi
#52. When you have lived either a very short time or a very long time - if you've lived well - you will be able to love easily, too. Broken hearts have fresh places to bond with new faces.
Brent Weeks
#53. People aren't broken. They're just interestingly wired.
Silvia Hartmann
#55. We all want to be someone else. And sometimes we succeed in convincing ourselves we can be.
But it doesn't last, and our true selves, broken and scarred, always win out in the end.
Sara Gran
#56. Broken people don't hide from their monsters. Broken people let themselves be eaten.
Francesca Zappia
#57. Between nine and ten, at last, in the high clear picture--he was moving in these days, as in a gallery, from clever canvas to clever canvas--he drew a long breath: it was so presented to him from the first that the spell of his luxury wouldn't be broken.
Henry James
#58. One day I was particularly gloomy, and Jim asked me what the matter was. I told him my high school girlfriend (for all of two weeks) had broken up with me. He said, "Oh, that'll happen a lot." The knowledge that this horrid grief was simply a part of life's routine cheered me up almost instantly.
Steve Martin
#59. Who can ever know what path to walk on when all of them are either crooked or broken? One just has to walk.
Ishmael Beah
#60. 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
#61. The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.
Norman Vincent Peale
#62. (Even if your heart is broken and attacking you, you're still not better off without it.)
Rainbow Rowell
#63. The heart, when broken, is like sweet gums and spices when beaten; for as such cast their fragrant scent into the nostrils of men, so the heart, when broken, casts its sweet smell into the nostrils of God.
John Bunyan
#64. The heart aches through nights - the broken places of neglect
John Geddes
#65. We're all a little broken, on the sidewalk. On the street. In the city.
Corey Ann Haydu
#66. There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.
Evel Knievel
#67. Pardon? Why, sir, I beg your pardon, for if that was pardon, then fists are love and nooses are kisses. You speak of duty? Duty is the rope that strangles me. Piety is a bed of broken glass. And family is the company of hateful demons.
Rachel Caine
#68. I have come to New York because it is the most forlorn of places, the most abject. The brokenness is everywhere, the disarray is universal. You have only to open your eyes to see it. The broken people, the broken things, the broken thoughts. The whole city is a junk heap.
Paul Auster
#69. My soul is a dark ploughed field In the cold rain; My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain.
Sara Teasdale
#70. Love is fragile. Love can easily be broken. Love is not always perfect. And sometimes love makes mistakes. When everything's broken, everything seems lost. The only way to get your love back and repair it ... is to conquer it. - CONQUER YOUR LOVE
J.C. Reed
#71. You know," I said to Michael, "my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch." "Too bad she isn't here," he said.
Rachel Caine
#72. Why she would choose a town where she barely knew anyone, and a boyfriend who knew how broken felt.
Robyn Schneider
#73. Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.
Criss Jami
#75. What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the notion a little higher, and it would require us to break and have a head broken reciprocally without offense.
William Shenstone
#76. Relationships are like broken glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than hurt yourself trying to put the pieces back together
Alex Haditaghi
#77. You made me whole. You took a wretched, broken soul and showed him how to take his life back.
Lauren Layne
#78. Broken.
As I search for hope,
In the same eyes
I lost it.
Jessica Kristie
#80. There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town, There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew, And the yellow god forever gazes down.
J. Milton Hayes
#81. 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
#82. God isn't looking for something brilliant; he's looking for something broken.
Bob Kauflin
#83. I liked the rain. It made it harder, the harder the better. I didn't see accidents but there are a lot of broken cars out there.
John Holmes
#84. And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit.
Anne Rice
#85. Quit praying about yourself and be spent for others as the bondslave of Jesus. That is the meaning of being made broken bread and poured-out wine in reality.
Oswald Chambers
#86. Here's all you need to know about crazy: Crazy's favorite shape is a circle. Broken records, crazy urges on a loop. Any of this ring a bell? That's how crazy works, and why it keeps repeating itself.
R.K. Lilley
#88. It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.
Ginnifer Goodwin
#89. Don Miller says we're called to hold our hands against the wounds of a broken world, to stop the bleeding. i agree so greatly.
Jamie Tworkowski
#90. Prayers and promises. The one his sister made to him. The unspoken one I made to my sister. Prayers are promises, too, and these are the days of broken promises.
Rick Yancey
#92. Hot shame swarmed over me at the naive, star-struck, and broken hearted little girl he saw me as. And it made me mad as hell.
Natasha Boyd
#93. Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.
Milan Kundera
#94. Education Proceeds ultimately from the patterns furnished by institutions, customs, and laws"- If the patterns of institutions, customs, and laws are broken for this philosophy education should fix itself. There should be several different things taught instead of one "Supreme Factor.
John Dewey
#95. Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another, "I want to know why!
Shannon L. Alder
#96. One unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.
James Q. Wilson
#97. I learned that adults were not soaring gods, but rather back-yard birds with broken wingtips.
When you are thirteen, about to free-fall into the real world, discovering the broken wingtips is terrifying.
Janet Turpin Myers
#98. We came here because no place would take us after our momma died. They all said go away, come back when you're older, when you know better, when you've learned. Only no one wants to teach how to be older or to know better - not even Devin. They just teach us how to be broken.
Seanan McGuire
#99. She says you're not truly human until you've had your heart broken and you've broken someone's heart.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
#100. The broken doors are open - come and enter and be home. My darling girl, be careful now, and don't go out alone.
Mira Grant
