Top 63 Quotes About Damaged People
#1. You are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets.
Nikita Gill
#2. The real question is, Why do you feel as though that's emasculating? A man can't have a conflict? When you try to do art, it's how it lands on people, and hopefully some people will see it the way that I saw it, which is all of these awful choices come from the place of a man who's damaged.
Wendell Pierce
#3. If he'd had to judge based on the two of them, then ExtraOrdinaries were damaged, to say the least. But these words people threw around
humans, monsters, heroes, villains
to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics.
Victoria Schwab
#4. Genes aren't everything," Amar says. "People, even genetically damaged people, make choices. That's what matters.
Veronica Roth
#5. It's almost impossible to deal with a crazy man, except that he does have religious beliefs, and the world of Islam will be damaged if a fanatic like him should commit murder in the name of religion against 60 innocent people.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#6. Frederick left the young couple gazing into each other's eyes. Revolting, the way otherwise sensible people could carry on, he decided. Something to do with being married, no doubt. Perhaps it damaged the brain.
Caroline Stevermer
#7. The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#8. When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
J.K. Rowling
#9. Damaged people gravitate towards damaged people.
Norman Reedus
#10. All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.
J. Anthony Lukas
#11. History is littered with many, many talented young people who got a break damaged in the end by fame and other things when they were young and took it.
Piers Morgan
#12. I think managers have realized that most software people are slightly brain damaged, that they're off on their own planets.
Eugene Jarvis
#13. Humans are so lost and damaged that to you it is almost incomprehensible that people could work or live together without someone being in charge.
William Paul Young
#14. There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.
Vince Cable
#15. Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.
Josephine Hart
#16. Liar," she spat. "Because the only way anyone will ever be okay with me is if they love me. Really love me enought to not care that I'm damaged. You don't love people. You have sex with them. So how could you want to be with me?
Katie McGarry
#17. Miscommunication is the number one cause of all problems; communication is your bridge to other people. Without it, there's nothing. So when it's damaged, you have to solve all these problems it creates.
Earl Sweatshirt
#18. Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.
Dean Koontz
#19. (Perhaps he realized that) two damaged people could never really make a whole undamaged person between them.
Rhona Cameron
#20. People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
Wayne Coyne
#21. Two damaged people, thrown together in a hostile world, doing their best. What else was there to life, in the end?
Stephen Baxter
#22. Damaged people were survivors, and they survived because they always put themselves first. Self-preservation demanded it.
Penelope Douglas
#23. And the more I come to know these people, the worse it is. Because, on the whole, I don't hate them. And some I like. And a lot of them are so damaged that my natural instinct would be to protect them. But all of them must die if I'm to save Peeta.
Suzanne Collins
#24. I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability.
Susan Boyle
#25. I was fucked-up in some essential way that other people could see, but I couldn't.
Jane Devin
#26. I was in love with Philip, but had ongoing proof that romantic love is like a swimming pool. People fall into it and scramble out of it wet and disheveled, usually in one piece but damaged, all the time.
Helen Brown
#27. Let's stop wasting billions of dollars on prisons, which send people home who are too often less capable and more damaged than when they went in. We would have safer neighborhoods if we spent the same money on true rehabilitation, job training, employment and entrepreneurship.
Van Jones
#28. 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
#29. We look at your eyes. The eyes carry the wounds. The eyes know damage. Damaged people recognize other damaged people, and we let you in. We are kindred. - Broken Places
Rachel Thompson
#30. I didn't think there was any way to convince
Jack that he wanted more than I had to
give, that to people who'd been damaged the
way I had been, fear and the will to survive
would always be more powerful than attachment.
I could only love in a limited way
Lisa Kleypas
#31. Israel's international position is very badly damaged. A country which started off as a symbol of recovery of a people who were greatly persecuted now looks like a country that is persecuting people. And that's very bad.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
#32. "One of the best things about marijuana legalization: "I think the black market has been damaged. I think people are willing to pay taxes and to go through pretty rigorous regulation."
John Hickenlooper
#33. Everybody is damaged goods. Everybody got bumps and dents, ja? But sometimes two people fit together, and the bumps go into the dents, and you have a whole thing like a potato.
Paul Quarrington
#34. 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
#35. All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.
Josephine Hart
#36. They never got you, don't you know that? You irritating, charming, stubborn, evolved, intolerable, sweet, complex, caring, melodramatic bastard with your heart of gold. They never got you. You're wholly you, and you're perfect.
Dianna Hardy
#37. It makes me wonder how many people have damaged their own lives by mistaking enablement for grace?
Donald Miller
#38. So that is what history is, people and places that disappear, or are beheaded, or get damaged or nearly do, and things and places and people that get tortured and burned and so on. But this does not mean that history is not the unseen things as well.
Ali Smith
#39. I play damaged people a lot. I'm a Cancer. And I say that tongue and cheek, but I wear my heart on my sleeve. I'm a very emotional woman.
Hilarie Burton
#40. I've always been more interested in what happens after the bad thing has happened - the fallout of the bad thing, when people are already damaged. I'm less interested in seeing people when they're fine and following their journey to becoming damaged.
Chelsea Cain
#41. The dangers merged into one. Powder and smoke and the gusty flames. The damaged people. Like the rest of the men in the unit, Hans would need to perfect the act of forgetting.
Markus Zusak
#42. I'm drawn to people who share that sense of loss. All actors are trying to repair damaged relationships. I think that might be why I've been drawn to other actors.
Liev Schreiber
#43. As he spoke, it occurred to her that maybe he, too, felt like two people, that maybe everybody does, and that it's not a question of whether one's damaged, but of how easily or not that damage is seen.
Marie Rutkoski
#44. Global Family Day provides a way in which every man, woman, and child in the United States can help to reduce suffering at home, repair our damaged image abroad, and help us remember that in the end, all people belong to the same human family.
John Conyers
#45. In the history of the nation, there has never been a political party so ridiculous as today's Democrats. It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc.
Ann Coulter
#46. We all have heard a bunch of times that drinking kills brain cells, right? Right. Well, what I didn't know was that the actual sensation of brain cells being damaged is what being drunk is. So basically people are killing their brain cause it feels good. Weird, right?
L.T. Vargus
#47. This family business can be so stressful - difficult, damaged people showing up t spend time with other difficult, damanged people
Anne Lamott
#48. Two damaged, broken people looking for the person who could make them whole again. I am his and he is mine. Of this, I am certain.
Sydney Landon
#49. I think there are times in a lot of people's pasts where they've unintentionally fallen in love with really damaged people. You go out with someone who's a mess so you can feel less of a mess.
Sharon Van Etten
#50. 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
#51. Alone, we are doomed, but by the same token, we've learned that people are impossible, even the ones we love most - especially the ones we love most: they're damaged, prickly and set in their ways.
Anne Lamott
#52. A proper bond between two people is severely damaged if the process is rushed.
James C. Dobson
#53. An obsession is a way for damaged people to damage themselves more.
Mark Barrowcliffe
#54. People who are seriously damaged by sudden fame and notoriety have, in my experience, very low esteem at the root of their being.
Roger Lloyd-Pack
#55. I think when you take people who are damaged and you give them money and freedom, it can be a toxic cocktail.
Diablo Cody
#56. What did Republicans get for 16 days of a government shutdown with people being hurt? We have absolutely nothing to show for it, other than a damaged brand.
Trey Gowdy
#57. 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
#58. I remember when people used to think I was smart.
I remember when people used to think my brain was useful.
Damaged by water, sure. And ready to seizure at any moment. But still useful, and maybe even a little bit beautiful and sacred and magical.
Sherman Alexie
#59. The more I come to know these people, the worse it is. Because, on the whole, I don't hate them. And some I like. And a lot of them are so damaged that my natural instinct would be to protect them. But
Suzanne Collins
#60. Silent lies are more venomous than cruel truths
Ben Oliveira
#61. And what constituted a cure? What was healing for a damaged human being? Who needed help and who didn't? And anyway, was there really a cure for the truly hurt? People could be totaled, just like cars.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#62. The loneliest people are the kindest. The saddest people smile the brightest. The most damaged people are the wisest. All because they do not wish to see anyone else suffer the way they do.
Anonymous
#63. The fulfilment of your dream could cause a severe shock to many people and they will take ages to recover from it. But some of them will be permanently damaged by it and they will choose to hate you for your achievement.
Euginia Herlihy
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