Top 100 Quotes About Shattering
#1. Steep fall to the ground
shattering
like clay pigeons
missed
by bad shots
and unsteady hands.
Jessica Kristie
#2. No-one would want to go through a traumatic experience but when you've survived something life-shattering and risen above it, you achieve a kind of serenity.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#3. Why does each man kill the thing he loves? ... you killed it by accident. Thinking you were doing something else. It was a cherished vase that broke while you were cleaning it. The phone rang and you dropped it. Shattering, when all you wanted was to keep it safe.
Janet Fitch
#4. He woos, he confronts, he delivers, he heals, he shoots straight, and then he uses intrigue. He lives out before them the most compelling view of God, shows them an incredibly attractive holiness while shattering the religious glaze. But still, he lets them walk away if they choose.
John Eldredge
#5. Spirituality is a mixed-up, topsy-turvy, helter-skelter godliness that turns our lives into an upside-down toboggan ride of unexpected turns, surprise bumps and bone shattering crashes ... a life ruined by a Jesus who loves us right into his arms.
Mike Yaconelli
#6. God, he was going to destroy her. But maybe for the first time in her life, she'd found a man worth shattering for.
Joey W. Hill
#7. Well after that testosterone-shattering experience, I have no more dignity to worry about. Ever. Anyone have a cushion I can sit on? A really big fluffy one? Hell, let's even make it pale pink with bows on it just for good measure.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#8. It seems that Russia today - dominated by, and accustomed to, autocracy and empire, and lacking strong civic institutions especially after the shattering of its society by the Bolshevik Terror - is destined to be ruled by self-promoting cliques for some time yet.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
#9. My God, that scene in Monster Inc. where the monsters realise that their entire world is founded on hurting children -look at that for a change! Two galumphing cartoon characters making a shattering realisation about their world and their role in sustaining it. A truly epic moment. It's stunning.
Russell T. Davies
#10. Which knew and understood and did not shy away from the understanding that there would be pain. Which could accept shattering, could reassemble itself, could stand taller than before.
Nick Harkaway
#11. It took me a long while to realize that Rhysand, whether he knew it or not, had effectively kept me from shattering completely.
Sarah J. Maas
#12. First-class delivery of children's palliative care is life-changing. When families are confronted with the shattering news that their children have a life-limiting condition, their world can fall apart.
Kate Middleton
#13. I wonder what freezes
the flurry of hurt on her cold-
flushed cheeks, if his touch is
a salve or the shattering.
Beth Morey
#14. I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she died. I was 16.
Joan Lingard
#15. My idea of God is a not divine idea. It has to be shattered from time to time. He shatters it Himself. He is the great iconoclast. Could we not almost say that this shattering is one of the marks of His presence?..
C.S. Lewis
#16. Siry answered with one simple, shattering word. Veelox.
D.J. MacHale
#17. The student of prehistoric man ... cannot reject [the Castenedolo skull] as false without doing injury to his sense of truth, and he cannot accept it as fact without shattering his accepted beliefs.
Arthur Keith
#18. History only existed in the human mind, subject to endless revision. 'each man kills the thing he loves'-Oscar Wilde. You kill it before it kills you, but he was wrong. you killed it by accident. thinking you were doing something else. shattering, when all you wanted to do was keep it safe.
Janet Fitch
#19. Soccer has given me a place to express myself, fully and openly. To not be shy. To feel. To be crazy. To try things I might not try. To be honest in relationships. To make mistakes and realize that they're not life-shattering.
Brandi Chastain
#20. God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#21. The Spirit of God brings justification with a shattering, radiant light, and I know that I am saved, even though I don't know how it was accomplished.
Oswald Chambers
#22. I've read many, many books involving heartache. Not one has ever described it as little. Soul-shattering and world-destroying yes. Little, no" -Madeline
Nicola Yoon
#23. A poem is a heroic act of integration that binds into rough harmony the chorus of forces within and outside the soul. A poem struggles to orchestrate, prioritize, cohere, and coordinate these potentially shattering forces.
Tony Hoagland
#24. Only later did he remember his pride-and the shattering cost of an illusive sense of freedom.
Francine Rivers
#25. It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.
C.S. Lewis
#26. What is stronger in us - passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?
Nikolai Gogol
#27. But that did not stop her heart from shattering into countless pieces or her soul from shredding into slivers.
Farrah Naseem
#28. I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable - how we decide what is valuable.
Ai Weiwei
#29. And Dora pushed the mirror, sending it shattering to the floor. "Whoops.
Michael Scott
#30. When I read things like the foundations of capitalism are shattering, I'm like, maybe we need that. Maybe we need some time where we're walking around with a donkey with pots clanging on the sides.
Louis C.K.
#31. There are really only two stories the coal industry tells: "Coal keeps the lights on, and by implication, you'll live in medieval, soul-shattering darkness if you don't let us do whatever the hell we want with the landscape and drinking water you public health, because there's no alternative."
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
#32. I. Love. You. Period. It's a goddamn soul-shattering love that will never ever be matched. My love for you is unapologetic and forever.
Jewel E. Ann
#33. Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?
Calvin Klein
#34. Many people can listen to their cat more intelligently than they can listen to their own despised body. Because they attend to their pet in a cherishing way, it returns their love. Their body, however, may have to let out an earth-shattering scream in order to be heard at all.
Marion Woodman
#35. My mind is quiet now. There is no fire or ash, no sulfur or shattering glass. Only silence, empty and cold.
Christine Fonseca
#36. I was starting to wonder if repetitive exposure to nightly hallucinations resulting in earth-shattering climaxes could have any long-term side effects.
Darynda Jones
#37. Successful people are able to rise above crises by relaxing no matter what the external situation. Their belief in themselves, the strength of their self-image is impenetrable armor, which protects them against shattering events.
Maxwell Maltz
#38. I'm a Fool" may not be a great song, but Sinatra's shattering performance of it transcends the material. His emotion is so naked that we're at once embarrassed and compelled: we literally feel for him.
James Kaplan
#39. I believe his exact words were cosmic, soul-shattering, air in your lungs kind of love.
Renee Carlino
#40. As iconic a band as Metallica has become, I think sometimes we forget just how raw they were in the beginning of their career, and to a 15-year-old kid like me, it was just shattering. I mean, it was beyond.
Corey Taylor
#41. When you walk in peace you will literally see attackers shattering themselves against your inner-calm.
Bryant McGill
#42. And I thought to myself, even though life could be horrifying and earth-shattering, terrible and tragic, it was also filled with moments of breathtaking beauty. And sometimes you just had to laugh.
Mia Sheridan
#43. Something wild and foreign issued a cry within her, shattering through the pain in her head, and thoughts of poppies and cages faded away.
She must do what was necessary to save the crown - and her future.
Sarah J. Maas
#44. I will be girl with claws, heart bared and bruised and wanting. I am soul-shattering wolf-howl. I am lioness and hunt. I am more and enough. I am.
Venetta Octavia
#45. He has yet to confront society with this ego-shattering, life-redeeming elixir, and take the return blow of reasonable queries, hard resentment, and good people at a loss to comprehend.
Joseph Campbell
#46. When their mouths collided, the earth shifted, and she felt like she was coming face-to-face with death, and the brush was sweet, while he experienced life in the most shattering way.
Rae Elle
#47. [2015] it's a time that there's a clash of ideologies, similar to the Cold War. I think that a story like this has been waiting to be told, and I think it's a fresh look at the whole earth-shattering business of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Steven Knight
#48. Alex would make a terrible Martian," said Sarah. "He doesn't have a giant laser and he's not planning an Earth-shattering kaboom." She
Seanan McGuire
#49. Sometimes divorce isn't an earth-shattering loss. Sometimes it's just two people waking up out of a fog.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#50. She wanted to take those words back. But they were out, shattering in the air all around them, slicing them both.
Lisa Unger
#51. You may never have heard of Joseph Overton and his proverbial window but you most certainly have heard the Republican presidential campaign in 2015 year not just flinging the window open but shattering all its glass.
Rachel Maddow
#52. When everything else is shattering, you feel like the one true constant.
Siobhan Davis
#53. One can make one's life a complete misery, worrying about burglaries and shipwrecks, but ask anyone, anyone you know ... earth-shattering disasters and fabulous inheritances all seems to take place exclusively in the newspapers.
Jean Anouilh
#54. I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project.
Atom Egoyan
#55. Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes.
Paulo Coelho
#56. Over the course of four rough, ego-shattering hours, the ayahuasca shows me that opening myself to love of Zoe and all others is the sure way to tap my deepest and most vital energetic reserves. The lesson is vivid, technicolor, indelibly imprinted on my psyche.
Chris Kilham
#57. First bubble baths. Now Disney parks. You're shattering every creep vampire myth I've ever heard.
Jeaniene Frost
#58. The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is dizzyingly brilliant. Mark Leyner is a hyperkinetic shaman, who flies the banner of rum and candy and writes like a one-eyed feral bandit. His new book is supremely original, delirious and synapse-shattering.
John Cusack
#59. Shells, gas clouds, and flotillas of tanks - shattering, corroding, death. Dysentery, influenza, typhus - scalding, choking, death. Trenches, hospitals, the common grave - there are no other possibilities.
Erich Maria Remarque
#60. Sex finds us. sex sees through us. that's why it's so shattering. it strips us of appearances._Eric Packer
Don DeLillo
#61. I liken an affair to the shattering of a Waterford crystal vase. You can glue it back together, but it will never be the same again.
John M. Gottman
#62. Just saw an orthodox Jewish kid do 3 pull-ups on the scaffolding. Shattering the previous record.
Gary Gulman
#63. He was responsible for my peaks and valleys, the pulsating waves and earth-shattering releases. It didn't matter if I was bound or not, whether we fucked or made love, he was in control. The reality was he was always in control.
Arika Stone
#64. The burnished rays of the setting sun flamed glory on the clouds of the western sky before shattering in gold and vermilion dapples on the darkening waters of the river. Once Karras met God in this sight. Long ago. Like a lover forsaken, he still kept the rendezvous.
William Peter Blatty
#65. Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
Alvin Toffler
#66. O exhilaration, I thought. To be lifted up through the eye of chaos, to balance breath-stopped on the edge of nothing. And the plunge that would follow, the shattering of my matchstick body to smithereens, the bones flying free as foam, the heart finally released.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#67. Clouds of a different sort signal an environmental holocaust without precedent. Once again, world leaders waffle, hoping the danger will dissipate. Yet today the evidence is as clear as the sounds of glass shattering in Berlin.
Al Gore
#68. She suddenly felt herself gasping for air, as if she'd momentarily forgotten how to breathe. She rocked back in her chair and nearly fell over, then slumped against the green-covered table. The bowl fell from her fingers, shattering at her feet, broken glass scattering everywhere.
Joe DeRouen
#69. The child who is uprooted begins to recognize that what he builds within himself is what will endure, what will withstand shattering experiences.
Anais Nin
#70. The aim is to get as close to nature as possible, shattering the tyranny of cultural values and judgements. In the Vedic approach, self-realization has to be achieved by detached adherence to cultural values and judgements, social roles
Devdutt Pattanaik
#71. I suspect that I shall be broken; I suspect that I shall finally live. Save me, Emily! Save me from this shattering we are pleased at times to call love.
Michael D. O'Brien
#72. The funny thing about life is that even though something entirely earth-shattering rocks you to your core, something that shakes you off your axis, the world around you somehow doesn't feel the impact.
T.M. Frazier
#73. No matter the life-shattering circumstance that delivers the devastating blow to our spirit, God is bigger. He is faithful and unchanging, merciful and consistent with His offer to us, that through it all, we will be comforted, we will be loved, we will be HELD.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#74. She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking and the looming shadow of the last word, the one we refused to say.
Kami Garcia
#75. The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.
Terry Tempest Williams
#76. My favorite moments are when the bass falls in the pocket with the drums, the guitar is on top just slicing it, and the melody is scraping across like a sidewinder shattering through the monitor. It's just, ahhh, I love it! That's the jones, the hit, the buzz right there. It gets me off.
Nikki Sixx
#77. Today, Mihir stopped a bomb from killing the Tahitian President but not from shattering his own collar bone. So, he is now in the operating chamber, undergoing his 250th reconstruction. The nurses have tied a balloon to his bed that says, "Don't make it to 251!
Mads Sukalikar
#78. War is a soul-shattering experience for the innocent.
Suzy Kassem
#79. It is a dull sensation, your heart breaking, like the sound of a pebble dropping on the sand. Not a shattering, not a tearing apart, there is nothing shrill or grandiose about the sensation. It is merely an internal realization that something treasured you never knew you had is leaving forever.
Samantha Bruce-Benjamin
#80. You don't want me, and I don't want anybody else. So I'll just be . . . left behind. Left to pick up the pieces of my dreams and my heart when you get up from this table and walk away, shattering them both because the girl who means everything never even gave me a chance to mean something.
Elizabeth Hayley
#81. But I'm tone deaf - window-shattering tone deaf. I can't sing for the life of me. I can't sing or dance, so no remake of 'Grease' for me!
Dev Patel
#82. Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of modern life (that nothing matters, nothing changes, money is everything, etc). Writing is a state of being as well as an act of doing.
Jeanette Winterson
#83. We hold on so tightly, because we're terrified of loss. We hold on till our hands bleed. And in that self-shattering persistence, we fail to see the answer: Just let go.
Yasmin Mogahed
#84. When horrible life-shattering things take place, especially in our relationships, these events become central to our experience and most everything else is viewed in their light, God included. You may have your
Gary W. Deddo
#85. I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.
Lesley Garrett
#87. What we work so hard to avoid is the shattering of our lives by horrors we know we will be helpless to control.
Jerome A. Miller
#88. No glass slippers, just a glass heart shattering into a million slivers of regret.
Donna Cooner
#89. Beth had been both wrong and right. Echo couldn't hurt anyone, especially when she seemed so breakable herself. But the need I felt to be the one to keep the world from shattering her only confirmed Beth's theory. I was falling for her and I was fucked.
Katie McGarry
#90. For believers in true, epic, soul-shattering love. This one's for you.
Tillie Cole
#91. You never know how the loss will come -- whether he will lose you or you him, but it is a certainty that there will be a shattering involuntary separation. Death is the abandonment caused not by betrayal but by fidelity.
Jeanne Safer
#92. We take life for granted, sleepwalking until a shattering event knocks us awake. Zen says, don't wait until the car accident, the cancer diagnosis, or the death of a loved one to get your priorities straight. Do it now.
Philip Toshio Sudo
#93. She'd never felt the stirrings of passion he brought out of her. She'd never felt as though she were bursting into pieces, a super nova shattering with light. She would relish this time because who knew when - if - she would ever feel this way again.
Sibylla Matilde
#94. I believe that earth-shattering love exists and when you find it, it will move your soul like nothing else.
Randi Cooley Wilson
#95. War is a way of shattering to pieces ... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and ... too intelligent.
George Orwell
#96. David Grossman may be the most gifted writer I've ever read. [To the End of the Land is] powerful, shattering, and unflinching. To read it is to have yourself taken apart, undone, touched at the place of your own essence.
Nicole Krauss
#97. Your friend Lila is calling from her car phone,' Ned said, half amused and half annoyed. 'Apparently something earth-shattering has come up, and unless she can talk to you this very second, she claims she will die.
Francine Pascal
#98. It's only now that I realize that there are degrees of agony. That pain can range from devastating to soul-shattering.
Anna Zaires
#99. Immediately i felt my body crumbling, shaking so fast that the very atoms of my being seemed to dissolve, and then i was dissolving too, my emotions shattering me, unitl there was nothing left of me but silver dust- and a final longing stare of awe,of passion, of love.
Kailin Gow
#100. I ever get out of here," I said over the noise of my enemy hitting the far wall with shattering force, "I will personally beat Clyde Clary to death with nothing but an old shoe.
Robert J. Crane
