Quotes About Shattered Dreams

#1. You've left me with a kaleidoscope of broken smiles and shattered dreams.

Karen Quan

#2. Don't thank your parents. If you were raised in a nurturing environment, you wouldn't be in show business. Don't say, 'Wow, this is heavy.' Of course it's heavy. It contains the shattered dreams of four other people.

Conan O'Brien

#3. Through career fumbles and life changes, she supported me. Through shattered dreams and hopes almost-realized, she supported me too.

Shannon Celebi

#4. Mary approaches her before she is able to reach her station. "Hello Lily. Get anything special for Christmas?"
"Just the usual." She answers. "Shattered dreams.

Carroll Bryant

#5. Shattered dreams, worthless years, here I am encased in a hollow shell. Life began, then was done, now I stare into a cold and empty well.

Stevie Wonder

#6. Suddenly I felt the weight of shattered dreams.

Christopher Pike

#7. I have tormented some sweet men. Broken hearts and shattered dreams.
Men are punching bags, and I have a hell of a right hook.

R.K. Lilley

#8. Permissiveness, immorality, pornography, drugs, the power of peer pressure-all these and more-cause many to be tossed about on a sea of sin and crushed on the jagged reefs of lost opportunities, forfeited blessings, and shattered dreams.

Thomas S. Monson

#9. I had a God who knew my every desire. He also knew how I would fall. And yet he was waiting on the other side of my failure and my shattered dreams with some dreams of his own ...

Eric Ludy

#10. Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.

Robert F. Kennedy

#11. Because the world is unkind, and eventually, it will swallow you whole, turning your hopes into shattered dreams, and your dreams into nightmares.

Mia Asher

#12. Not all the truths are told, dreams are shattered, words are unspoken, memories are haunting but the imagination is still fighting to settle down.

Magith Noohukhan

#13. You told me once dear, you really loved me
And no one else could come between.
But now you've left me and love another;
You have shattered all my dreams.

Kate Avelynn

#14. Kenji-""So the minute you opened your mouth you just shattered all his dreams, huh?"
Juliette- "I will push you off the roof."
Kenji-"Yeah, I can definitely see why Adam wouldn't like you.

Tahereh Mafi

#15. He reminded himself again that he took no true pleasure in her pain. He was simply trying to spread the message of the emptiness that had consumed him and make people realize how easily dreams shattered.

Ira Gansler

#16. The barriers of impossibility, which close off the field of reality to our dreams and desires, were shattered, and his thoughts drifted exuberantly through the unattainable, fired by their own movement.

Marcel Proust

#17. It's amazing, really, how in one instant a wall can be torn down, or climbed over. Misconceptions can be shattered, illusions dashed, dreams irrevocably ruined. Given the right frame of mind, within a heartbeat, people can begin the business of starting over.

Tamara Thiel

#18. Death abides by no one's rules ... it takes what pleases it without consciousness to its decisions. It destroys what it will. It took the pieces of perfection I once knew and shattered them. Now what remains are shards of a dream, drawing blood with every step.

Cassandra Giovanni

#19. You have the right to promote your own happiness just like everyone else, just like me. Your present dream has been shattered, but you can dream another. You should know that 'you can't relive old dreams.' Even if you force them to come true, they won't bring you happiness.

Mao Dun

#20. Dreams are fairy tales
Opened by the heart's desires
Tasting the candy-coated lies
They place by your pillow
Nightmares are terror tales
Unlocked by an eclipsed heart
Broken from a shattered soul
Screaming truths into your pillow

Kathy-Lynn Cross

#21. The problem sincere Christians have with God often comes down to a wrong understanding of what this life is meant to provide.

Larry Crabb

#22. Beyond the picket fences and the oil wells, the happy endings, and the fairy tales, is the reality of shattered lives and broken dreams. We carry on.

Tim McGraw

#23. I know I'm the one who has shattered the perfection that was our souls as one.

Cassandra Giovanni

#24. One act of betrayal can shatter a lifetime of trust.

Ken Poirot

#25. I heard how people sounded when their dreams were shattered, when their lives were turned into a waking nightmare.

Elizabeth Scott

#26. In dreams you can become everything you're not. You can reverse the most fundamental truths of your life. You can taste death, the ultimate opposite.

Robin Wasserman

#27. Dreams get shattered, hopes are belied, aspirations delude and opportunities elude us. Clouds have the power to conceal the sunshine and our radiance fails to ignite positive thoughts unless we embellish our thoughts and emotions, which can be trained to veer into a positive direction.

Balroop Singh

#28. Here lie your hopes and dreams, shattered and swept aside ...

Dean Koontz

#29. With miscarriage or infant loss, hopes and dreams are shattered before they can even begin.

Melissa L Eshleman

#30. Think of what this planet has done to us. Dune took my Duke and my son and shattered all our hopes and dreams as a family. It swallows people.

Brian Herbert

#31. It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.

Mary E. Pearson

#32. As surely as spring followed winter, new life followed death, fighting for its place on the earth. Let man do his worst, yet still the tentative shoots of faith and hope sprouted the ruins of shattered lives and broken dreams. Resurrection was real, after all.

J.M. Hochstetler

#33. Ah, my love. Once dreams were shattered, there could be no assurance that they could ever be pieced together and dreamed again.

Mary Balogh

#34. When in the throes of our desolation, it is difficult to hope. But when it is time, we walk the corridors of our heart, retrieving the shattered threads of once-believed dreams.

Gwendolyn M. Plano

#35. When it seems that someone has shattered your dreams ... pick up even the smallest of pieces and use them to build bigger and better dreams.

Jeremy Irons

#36. Coming true is not the only purpose of a dream. Its most important purpose is to get us in touch with where dreams come from, where passion comes from, where happiness comes from. Even a shattered dream can do that for you.

Lisa Bu

#37. I hear Jesus telling us to stop negotiating with Him, to stop offering something we think we have in exchange for His blessings.

Larry Crabb

#38. It is sad to see a young man's fondest hopes and dreams shattered when the rose-colured veil is plucked away and he sees the actions and feelings of men for what they are. But he still has the hope of replacing his old illusions with others, just as fleeting, but also just as sweet.

Mikhail Lermontov

#39. All connections are infused with dreams of what is possible in the future. Thus, when we lose something or someone important to us, we aren't just grieving the loss, we are grieving the shattered dream.

Bill Crawford