When Things Fall Apart Quotes

#1. When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky.

NoViolet Bulawayo

#2. It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately fill up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well as fundamental spaciousness.
-Pema Chodron, from When Things Fall Apart

Pema Chodron

#3. When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the presence of God.

Shauna Niequist

#4. You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart - you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don't hurt so much.

Iris Apfel

#5. Life doesn't change when you meet a guy and life doesn't fall apart when you break up with one. We are teaching young female readers the wrong things through books not only expressing this point, but also using these two concepts as turning plot points of novels.

Meghan Blistinsky

#6. Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.

Yo-Yo Ma

#7. You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things fall apart, letting the world come as it is - working with it rather than struggling against it. You're the only one who knows.

Pema Chodron

#8. People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.

Markus Zusak

#9. There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart.

May Sarton

#10. When I put a quarter into an arcade machine or call up an emulated game on my computer, I do it to escape the world that is a slave to the time that makes things fall apart. I have never played these games to occupy my world.

D. B. Weiss

#11. When you're supposed to be working, work, and when you're supposed to be playing, play. It's a weird tightrope you're walking, but it's only when you get your priorities mixed up that things fall apart.

Gary Keller

#12. Things fall apart, even when you think they're stronger than anything you could ever imagine.

Susane Colasanti

#13. I was so happy renting in New York City for so long because renting - or at least the way I rented, which involved never lifting a finger to better my surroundings - allows you to let things literally fall apart all around you. Then, when it gets to be too much, you just move on.

Maggie Nelson

#14. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that. That way, if one fell apart, I always had something else to fall back on.

Kaley Cuoco

#15. Everything that comes together falls apart. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you stopped suffering when they did.

John Green

#16. I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day.

John Nettles

#17. Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion and Papa flung his heavy missal across the room and broke the figurines on the etagere.(Opening page, 3)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#18. She's one of these beautiful women who's just a nobody and a nothing, and when they make it big, they always fall apart. Money can't do anything for them. Fame only makes things worse.

Anne Rampling

#19. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart,
you'd stop suffering when they did.

John Green

#20. God often uses desperate moments to wake us up. Only when things start to fall apart do we finally open our eyes.

Kyle Idleman

#21. Bad things happen to everyone, but when they do, you can't just fall apart and die. You have to fight back.

Alexandra Monir

#22. Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.

Armstrong Williams

#23. Love. Buddha nature. Courage. These are code words for things we don't know in our minds, but any of us could experience them. These are words that point to what life really is when we let things fall apart and let ourselves be nailed to the present moment.

Pema Chodron

#24. Control is an illusion - a fact you will learn very fast if you become ill, or have things fall apart in some other way. When we understand vulnerability and suffering as an essential part of being human, our individual fate can be easier to manage.

Harriet Lerner

#25. Even though I avoid buying clothes that are 'in fashion', choosing things I fall in love with and wearing them till they fall apart - and generally going for vintage when it comes to evening wear - I still, like every woman I know, suffer from occasional pangs of 'clothes guilt'.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

#26. When you stop wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you stop suffering when they do.

John Green

#27. Don't be quick to leave the class of discipline; you shall only live to remember the last lesson.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#28. When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?

Jodi Picoult

#29. There is nothing in this life that can destroy you but yourself. Bad things happen to everyone, but when they do, you can't just fall apart and die. You have to fight back. If you don't, you're the one who loses in the end. But if you do keep going and fight back, you win.

Alexandra Monir

#30. Things fall apart, and fade, and when these things happen you just need to pick yourself up and start over,

Evan Reeves