Top 42 This Shattered World Quotes
#1. I am old enough to remember what it was like when the theories of Freud first escaped from the study and the clinic, and the great game of Hunt-the Complex began, to the entertainment and alarm of a war-shattered and disillusioned world.
Mary Butts
#2. On the day that Raphael crossed the border, the seas had turned a violent impossible blue, as had every river and every lake across the world. Even the rain that fell from the sky was a glorious blue, and when it shattered, it left behind a sparkling residue, faceted diamond dust in the palm
Nalini Singh
#3. Is he ... is Dimitri a Strigoi?
Mason hesitated only a moment, like he was afraid to answer me, and then - he nodded.
My heart shattered. My world shattered.
Richelle Mead
#4. He felt that the world that have been shattered was once more stern to life and his soul, and new beauty and a new and steadfast foundations.
Leo Tolstoy
#5. But he was coming. He would be here soon, all sweet and brave and shattered and kind. He would come carrying and clever-fingered and oh so unaware of oh so many things. He was rough against the world, but even so ...
Patrick Rothfuss
#6. A lady kept up appearances and never lost her dignity - even when her world had just shattered around her in the stall of the women's bathroom.
Carolyn Brown
#7. By confusing life with play-acting and play-acting with life, one may perhaps construct a tolerable moral world from shattered fragments of the past
William Hardy McNeill
#8. She is ... she is Bloody Melody and perfect. God created her and then shattered the mold afterward, for the world could not handle two of her.
J.J. McAvoy
#9. My mission is to get on the stage and say, 'Listen, I'm a woman, I'm free, I'm a mother, I'm a lover, I'm a friend; I'm shattered by men most of the time, but I'll keep falling in love with them because it's the most thrilling thing in the world; that's what makes me human.'
Lou Doillon
#10. Then Samuel died and the world shattered like a dish.
John Steinbeck
#11. In seven days, God created the world. And in seven seconds, I shattered mine.
Breaking Benjamin
#12. The world I'd known had shattered around me in an instant, and now everything seemed so surreal. People went on doing exactly what they'd done before while I tip-toed through this new reality.
Katie Ashley
#13. Learning of my father's passing at age 55 not only shattered the world, far from home, that had become my reality, but catapulted my childhood and relationship with family - which had felt like another lifetime - into the present.
Tim Cope
#14. I want to rewind the clock, take back the night when the world shattered. I want to erase everything that went wrong.
Amy Hatvany
#15. Your heart will be shattered by sorrow if you force it to live in tomorrow's ephemeral imagination - world instead of in today's eternal reality - now.
Sri Chinmoy
#16. My world is a million shattered pieces put together, glued by my tears, where each piece is nothing but a reflection of YOU.
Sanhita Baruah
#17. When I'm with you, my world is complete. When I touch you, I understand the meaning of life. When I lost you, I completely shattered. You. Own. Me.
Abbi Glines
#18. Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thought in a manner all their own, and I'm convinced that the shattered world has less hope for repair if reading becomes an ever smaller part of it.
Frank Bruni
#19. Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered.
Carl Jung
#20. Here in this room, with our bodies entwined, I felt that I could trust this fierce love that had shattered and rebuilt my life. But outside, the world was a cold and dangerous place. I didn't know if love would be enough.
Jane Harvey-Berrick
#21. Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living among the shattered pieces.
Robin Hobb
#22. He can't take his eyes off the stars, but I can't take mine off his face.
Amie Kaufman
#23. Scarlett pressed down on the tip of the blade. A single drop of ruby blood welled. Carefully Julian brought her finger to his mouth, and when his soft lips touched her skin the entire world shattered into a million shards of colored glass.
Stephanie Garber
#24. Axes bit wood into pieces and hammers nailed it back together. Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces.
Robin Hobb
#25. When your world has shattered, ain't nothing else matters. It ain't over, it's only love and that's all.
Bryan Adams
#26. Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
John Green
#27. I doubted any hospital in the world would be able to mend a shattered heart. (Taryn Mitchell)
Tina Reber
#28. Unfortunately, now in boxing people are only allowed to punch. In Judo, people are only allowed to throw. I do not despise these kinds of martial arts. What I mean is, we now find rigid forms which create differences among clans, and the world of martial art is shattered as a result.
Bruce Lee
#29. Ethan thought he was doing the right thing. He knew it was crazy. And he didn't want to go, but he had to anyway. Ethan was like that. Even if he was dead.
He saved the world, but he shattered mine.
What now?
Kami Garcia
#31. 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
#32. Any story told in this machine age must be a story of fragments, for fragments are all the world has left: interrupted threads of talk at crowded cocktail parties; snatches of poems heard as a radio dial spins through its arc; incomplete commandments reclaimed from shattered stones.
Dexter Palmer
#33. Fighting for survival in a shattered world ... the truth is her only hope.
Veronica Roth
#34. Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller
#35. Life goes on, and deadlines arrive, even when it seem the world should stop out of respect for a shattered self-esteem.
Kelly Bingham
#36. If you are liberated then you can be in the crowd and there is no crowd. You can be surrounded by the world and their is no world. You have shattered the prism of illusion.
Frederick Lenz
#37. All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.
Robert Jordan
#38. European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion.
Virginia Postrel
#39. The one thing she hated worse than being fussed over was being ignored.
Joe Abercrombie
#40. But nobody in one lifetime could read more than a fragment of what was here, this broken labyrinth of words, this shattered, interrupted story of a people and a world through the centuries, the millennia.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#42. Traditional homes of our old world have been abandoned, windows shattered, roofs collapsing, red and green and blue paint scrubbed into muted shades to better match our bright future.
Tahereh Mafi
