Quotes About Burned Bridges

#1. 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

#2. Not an option. You burned your bridges. So keep walking. Do your own time ...

Neil Gaiman

#3. I burned by bridges so the devil couldn't follow me.

L.M. Browning

#4. I've always burned my bridges before me.

Dagmar Godowsky

#5. 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

#6. With the way I like to work, I always have to draw [inspiration] from somewhere, and the best place to take from is your own life.

Michael Eklund

#7. I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

Jeffery Deaver

#8. Because it's there.
-George Mallory, one of the first climbers to attempt Everest, when asked why he wanted to climb it. (He disappeared into a cloud near the summit in 1924, where his body was found in 1999.)

Stephen Bezruchka

#9. 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

#10. I hate bananas so much, it verges on a phobia.

Ahna O'Reilly

#11. 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

#12. The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Buddha

#13. The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad.

Jonathan Kellerman

#14. 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

#15. Everybody wants to be winners - you have to trust that God has a greater plan for this even when you can't see it.

Tobin Heath

#16. Bridges burned and pages turned with every tear that fell from my eyes.

Abigail George

#17. The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.

Henry Steele Commager

#18. 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

#19. Passion for books is pleasurable.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. The only exercise I get is swimming through the ashes of bridges I have burned

Dean Cavanagh

#21. set her glasses down on her dresser. "Thanks for the loan," I say. "But they make my head hurt. And they're ugly." I can almost hear her laughing.

Jennifer Niven

#22. I'm grateful for every scar, some pages turned, some bridges burned, but there were lessons learned

Carrie Underwood

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.

Steven Erikson

#28. 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

#29. 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

#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. The author says this socially respectable option NOT to parent has actually made parenthood more stressful. The knowledge that parents have chosen that role allows for unrealistic buildup of expectations and unavoidable second-guessing.

Jennifer Senior

#33. 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

#34. 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