Top 48 Quotes About Damaged Life
#1. You're not damaged. But even if you were, I'd spend the rest of my life fixing you. My life isn't mine either,Caitlin. I can't explain it, but since I've met you, I've felt a connection to you so strong that I can't deny it. I don't want to deny it. So my life isn't my own. It's yours.
S.H. Kolee
#2. How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?
Sonya Hartnett
#3. Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our minds, and it is not damaged through uncertainty and change.
Sharon Salzberg
#4. I didn't like seeing books damaged. I'd seen enough burned-out schoolhouses and libraries in my first life.
Andrew Smith
#5. Like so many things Henry had wanted in life
like his father, his marriage, his life
it had arrived a little damaged. Imperfect. But he didn't care, this was all he'd wanted. Something to hope for, and he'd found it. It didn't matter what condition it was in.
Jamie Ford
#6. I felt that my life was permanently damaged, that I could never be normal again, that the rest of my life would just be a shell.
John Marsden
#7. All I want is to become someone new. In this case, Tobias Johnson, son of Evelyn Johnson. Tobias Johnson may have lived a dull and empty life, but he is at least a whole person, not this fragment of a person that I am, too damaged by pain to become anything useful.
Veronica Roth
#8. It helps to think of soil as a living organism covered with skin like a human. We can live with a certain percentage of our skin damaged, but if too high a percentage is damaged, we die. So, too, does soil and thus most life
Allan Savory
#10. Corbin, I don't know if I'll ever be able to break down all the walls I have. I can't promise you that I'll never run again, or that I'll never shut down. But what I can promise is that I've felt more alive in the past two weeks than I ever will again if you walk out of my life.
Kandi Steiner
#11. Instead of the traditional emphasis on the sanctity of life, bioethics began to stress the quality of life, meaning that many damaged humans, young and old, don't qualify for personhood because their lives have lost value.
John Leo
#12. Absent opens a door to a view of Iraqi life we have seldom seen. With a compassionate eye Khedairi explores a community, damaged by wars and sanctions, struggling for survival.
Elizabeth Cox
#14. I have tried to live my life by: I cannot control others. I can only control myself and my reactions to others. And when all else fails, I choose kindness. I show compassion. Then, if I have made poor choices, I have at least not damaged my spirit.
P.C. Cast
#15. She had been so vulnerable, and Norah wanted only to protect her. But that vulnerability was tied to a massive mistake, a perception of herself too damaged to love. If Norah got anything from this book, it's that we're all damaged. The tragedy is letting it define you.
Ellen Meister
#16. I felt sure about wanting to look at a person's life that had been limited or damaged, but not necessarily ennobled, by loss.
Leni Zumas
#17. Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged. Cut them, and they bleed.
Haruki Murakami
#18. Before the season begins, I had even damaged some frames, but Ken did not hold it against me and kept all his confidence. He was the one who incontestably changed my life, because without his help, I do not know what I will have become.
Jacky Ickx
#19. The heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it's damaged for ever and what's done can never be undone.
Paul Hoffman
#20. Two damaged people, thrown together in a hostile world, doing their best. What else was there to life, in the end?
Stephen Baxter
#21. The consciousness and life force do what they want ...
one minute they put energy to repairing the damaged wing of a butterfly
and the next minute they send a whole town crushing with tremendous force ...
who can work it out?
Mooji
#22. The hardest diet I was ever on was the one when I was fat. You can only wear fat clothes, you don't feel good, your sex life gets damaged, you don't have energy for anything. It's horrible.
Drew Carey
#23. Without habit loops, our brains would shut down, overwhelmed by the minutiae of daily life. People whose basal ganglia are damaged by injury or disease often become mentally paralyzed. They have trouble performing basic activities, such as opening a door or deciding what to eat.
Charles Duhigg
#24. All my life I've felt like there was something wrong with me. Something missing or damaged."
"Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants.
Cassandra Clare
#25. 5. Today I will listen to the voice of REPLACEMENT, which says, "I must find those who can heal me." I will ask God to bring people into my life who can, and will, restore in me what others may have damaged.
Bishop Jim Swilley
#26. All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
Sigmund Freud
#27. Anyone so damaged as to cause this much harm led a life full of secrets and full of enemies.
Louise Penny
#28. When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.
Simone Weil
#29. You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.
Johnny Depp
#30. Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.
Rick Bragg
#31. I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.
Emily St. John Mandel
#32. I let myself pretend for now that my life was normal; that I loved Leif and my heart wasn't damaged beyond repair because I was in love with someone I couldn't find and feared I would never again
Abbi Glines
#33. We're only lucky enough to see the wonders of nature's canyons because they're gracious enough to show us the places they've been damaged.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
#34. Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life.
Steve Martin
#35. I have taken some hits here and there, but I've been most damaged carrying my little terrier to bed, and I broke my hip turning off the lamp. I've been nicked a few times, but he put me out of business. So life is a very strange adventure.
David Douglas Duncan
#36. There is a precarious balance to the life of a building. It has nothing to do with its age, or the beauty of its construction. A damaged building can always be repaired if it still has life, but a dead building will never be whole again.
Natsuhiko Kyogoku
#37. I write about people who are usually damaged or neglected by society finding each other and forming relationships that are quite extraordinary and in some cases life-saving. I've had a few of those relationships, which I value highly.
Matthew Quick
#38. You don't believe in Nature anymore. It's too isolated from you. You've abstracted it. It's so messy and damaged and sad. Your eyes glaze as you travel life's highway past all the crushed animals and the Big Gulp cups.
Joy Williams
#39. When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.
Iain Duncan Smith
#40. You might say that he had lost the gift of evoking the perfumes of life: sea water, the smoke of burning hemlock, and the breasts of women. He had damaged, you might say, the ear's innermost chamber, where we hear the heavy noise of the dragon's tail moving over the dead leaves.
John Cheever
#41. Things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.
Hanya Yanagihara
#42. In treading upon the ashes of dead men in Italy, Egypt - on the banks of the Bosphorus, one almost despairs to think how idle are the dreams and toils of this life, and were it not for the intellectual pleasure of knowing and learning, one would almost be damaged by travel in these historic lands.
William T. Sherman
#43. No one wanted to deal with damaged. It made them uncomfortable.
Cambria Hebert
#44. I'm damaged. I probably always will be. But I can at least pick up the pieces the best that I can and carry on. It's the only thing to do. Life is what you make it.
Monica Murphy
#45. Who wasn't squatting in one of the handful of prefabricated subject positions proffered by capital or whatever you wanted to call it, lying every time she said "I"; who wasn't a bit player in a looped infomercial for the damaged life?
Ben Lerner
#46. People who concern themselves with the rights of other adults who engage in consensual acts involving sex, love, and/or eating croissants together are damaged and in pain.
Rob Delaney
#47. Silent lies are more venomous than cruel truths
Ben Oliveira
#48. But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.
Audrey Niffenegger
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