When You're Broken Quotes

#1. When you're broken," she whispered to the man who would save the world for her, "you can't see hope. We must be their hope.

Nalini Singh

#2. When you're broken, everything gets a little honester - you make mistakes and don't give a damn - you give up on perfection, but get real ...

John Geddes

#3. Even when the dark comes crashing through, when you need someone to carry you, when you're broken on the ground, you will be found.

Dear Evan Hansen

#4. The multiverse is infinite. So, yeah, we go through some terrible things together, and I've seen versions of you who are darker, and damaged, and I don't care. I want you even when you're broken. I want you no matter what.

Claudia Gray

#5. There's no point in being complete on the outside when you're broken in the inside.

Nick Vujicic

#6. Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

Rumi

#7. I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.

James Lipton

#8. We had sun, but we asked for a rainbow. We called the drizzle, but we got heavy rains! Now it's gone.. We are left with drizzle, waiting the sun light to pass through. When the sun shines tomorrow, only the drizzle is mine.. Rainbow is yours! And I'm deaf and you're blind!

Heshan Udunuwara

#9. This book is for everyone who has survived. You are not broken. You can love and be loved, despite what may feel like the eternally brutal nature of the world. Even when you're drowning and so far under, there is always time to reach for someone who will teach you how to breathe again.

Jessica Park

#10. I vaguely remember a story about a woman who looked back while fleeing a broken city. She turned into a pillar of salt. A harsh fate, but I got the point. You can't look back when you're escaping disaster. You can't hope that someone will come after you, either.

Emery Lord

#11. When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives.

Mark Lawrence

#12. I have never had that - a home or someone to go home to. That's when I understood what I'm feeling. You're my home. You're the person I belong to." "Stop," he growls, and I know that he understands now. "You're the glue that holds all of my broken pieces together," I say quietly. "Autumn -

Aurora Rose Reynolds

#13. I love hugging you," Luke said. "I love how our bodies fit when we're still ... I feel like a broken record when I say I know there are a hundred reasons why we shouldn't but Nat, I really want to kiss you.

Ophelia London

#14. She thought of something her mother had told her when she'd finally broken up with one of her most dysfunctional boyfriends. When a man tells you he's going to hurt you, believe it. They always warn you and they're always right.

Holly Black

#15. Take me. I'm an ordinary player in the key of C.
And my will was broken by my pride and my vanity.
Who's gonna love you when you're looks are gone?
God will. Like he waters the flowers on your window sill.

Paul Simon

#16. Always Believe In Yourself ... If You're Down And Broken For A Reason, Rise Up And Focus ... Remember Strong Lightning Only Happens When Two Heavy Clouds Collide & Crack Each Other ... You Are That Lightning Which Is The Product of The Clash Between Your Purpose & Failure ...

Muhammad Imran Hasan

#17. I think maybe we die every day. Maybe we're born new each dawn, a little changed, a little further on our own road. When enough days stand between you and the person you were, you're strangers. Maybe that's what growing up is. Maybe I have grown up.

Mark Lawrence

#18. Now, let's talk about your current situation. I see that one of my hounds got a little rough with you."
Kayson sees Falon's mocking smile and returns it. "Not as much as I did him when I pushed my sword through his head.

Brandy Nacole

#19. No matter what people tell you when your heart is broken, there's nothing that really makes it feel better than time and space.

Demi Lovato

#20. The arguments against insanity fall through with a soft shirring sound;
these are the sounds of dead voices on dead records
floating down the broken shaft of memory.
When I turn to you to ask if you remember,
When I turn to you in our bed

Stephen King

#21. You know your business model is broken when you're suing your customers.

Paul Graham

#22. I learned you must always accept love when it's offered, always give it when it's needed. There might not be a second chance. And I know, too, that until your heart's been broken, you never know the full beauty of love.

Nora Roberts

#23. When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.

Sienna Miller

#24. When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises.

Franklin P. Adams

#25. When love breaks your heart, you need to remember, even a broken heart still has a beat.

Dixie Waters

#26. I hope your molding skills are up to date. Because really, some things, when broken, are impossible to repair, never mind how much clay you put on it.

Elle Aycart

#27. Don't look like that, Draco, you look like you did right before you pounced on the cat when you were two.

Inadaze22

#28. There are certain kinds of deaths that one should not be expected to re-live, certain kinds of connections that are so deep that when broken you feel the snap of the link inside you.

Jeff VanderMeer

#29. The way you treat me baby
Cheat and tell me lies
I guess I shouldn't care at all
But still I sympathize
'cause you got heart trouble
Coming on
Yeah you got heart trouble coming on
Well you think that you don't need me baby
But you're gonna miss me when I'm gone

Martina Mcbride

#30. It always feels better when someone understands that you're standing in a shit storm holding a broken umbrella.

Jana Deleon

#31. Old Age- You can tell when you're getting old when you stop taking drugs for fun and start taking them to keep you alive.
-character Jackson Rockenberger (Broken)

J. Matthew Nespoli

#32. This next song is about when you get your heart broken and you try your best to glue it back together and you wake up one morning and you're so happy because you realize, Oh my God, the tape's holding!

Sara Quin

#33. The silence wasn't
like the ones I'd known
lately, though: it wasn't empty as much as chosen. There's a entirely different
feel to quiet when you're
with some-one else, and at any moment it could be broken. Like the difference
between a pause and an
ending.

Sarah Dessen

#34. In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful.

Miranda Leek

#35. I love the concept of the romance that exists when people are broken. Like, the promise of a romance when you're at the bottom. I think that's infinitely compelling and romantic.

Shane Carruth

#36. I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.

Tennessee Williams

#37. We came here because no place would take us after our momma died. They all said go away, come back when you're older, when you know better, when you've learned. Only no one wants to teach how to be older or to know better - not even Devin. They just teach us how to be broken.

Seanan McGuire

#38. There's a simplicity and a sense of adventure to being alone, and I sometimes envy you for having it, as you explore Paris. Even when you're getting your heart broken, you can still wake up and not know what's going to happen next.

Jessica Pan

#39. So when life breaks you pick up the pieces and keep moving. Otherwise, you stay broken. And instead of being a survivor, you're always a victim.

Elizabeth Hunter

#40. I hate when people think you're broken because your parents are divorced. And I really reject the idea of staying together for the kids. If they're growing up in a house that's not healthy, it's better to know that's not the model of what marriage should be.

Anna Kendrick

#41. Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right.

Marilyn Monroe

#42. YEAH! It's really hard to write heart broken songs when you're happily married

Lights

#43. I like writing songs all females can relate to - songs about when you're a chick and you get your heart broken and you go shopping.

Nikka Costa

#44. I may have survived, but I am broken," I remind him sadly.
"No, Sunny, you're just a bit battered. We both are. Or if we're broken, that's only when we're alone. But now we're together, baby! And together, we're both whole.

Olivia Lynde

#45. Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before".

Cassandra Clare

#46. You're not broken. You're perfect. And when you get to get away from these kids, you might finally have a good man.

Ashley Newell

#47. Broken people do things better; we learned how to make it in life without the missing parts other people have. Because when you're in the dark, you appreciate everything that shines.

L.J. Shen

#48. The bonds you make with those records when you're 14, 15 and 16, they'll never be broken, and nothing will ever be as strong as that.

Rivers Cuomo

#49. When you're someone who likes control, this world can often resemble staring into a broken mirror. You see the sharp, ragged edges but lose sight of yourself.

Travis Thrasher

#50. The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.

Bam Margera

#51. I've always loved tales of broken lovers who roam through countrysides singing their stories of woe and separation, their honey- sweet longing for the next life when they can suddenly be re united. It makes other people happy, you see. It makes people grateful that it hasn't happened to them.

Roshani Chokshi

#52. What I mean is, it reminded me of one of the happiest moments of childhood, before broken wrists and purpling bruises and nasty names hissed when my mother's back was turned. Before Who do you think you are? You're ugly. You're nobody.

Nova Ren Suma

#53. I've survived broken hearts. You will, too. They're all worth it when you find the real thing. The right one.

M. Leighton

#54. When you are deeply in love,. even the smallest thing can hurt u like hell and break u into pieces ...

BHARAT SHARMA

#55. I lay there, stretched out, looking at the one star visible through the tiny window of the room. Only connect. How can you do that when the connections are broken?

Jeanette Winterson

#56. One day ... " Gabe whispered. "When my heart is mine again. When I'm not sharing it with a dying girl ... I'll give you everything."
"Gabe," I said, sighing. "Right now? I'm perfectly happy with the pieces. No matter how broken they may be.

Rachel Van Dyken

#57. And in the moments of rest, when we orphans faced each other, mud-cheeked, leaning on our forks, there's a camaraderie that builds without you knowing it.

Mark Lawrence

#58. When you get your heart broken, other people can help you pick the pieces up, but only you can glue the pieces back together.

Sam Madison

#59. When we opened the doors, we saw that the entire room was scorched black and you were on the floor possibly dead, surrounded by broken glass. Window glass is expensive, you realize that?" "Yes, Your Majesty," he said meekly.

Megan Whalen Turner

#60. A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.

J.S.B. Morse

#61. But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken.

Ilsa J. Bick

#62. People may say no one ever died of a broken heart, but when you're suffering from one, it sure doesn't feel that way
at least initially.

Paula Heller Garland

#63. You know you're in love when you open your heart knowing there's a chance it may be broken but in opening your heart, you experience a love that you never dreamed possible.

Theresa Lewis

#64. It's stupid, I know, but I care. All the things that meant so much when we were young. Under the blankets late at night, listening to long-distance radio. All those things lost now or broken. Can you remember? Can you remember that feeling? Perhaps I ought to go to a doctor.

Grant Morrison

#65. Life is a beautiful journey, full of joy and pain
You never know when it will end, don't let a moment pass in vain ...
In the whole ruckus of life, nothing had I gained,
I just wanted freedom, no more did I wanted to be chained ...

Mehek Bassi

#66. You realize you've forgiven people, your past and yourself when you don't speak bad about them anymore, even if you're encouraged to do so, even if you remember you were once brutally broken because of them ...
you just move on, let go, let them be and let yourself be ...

Sanhita Baruah

#67. When you live for the fight, for the blood, the relationships you form are tenuous and easily broken.

Stephenie Meyer

#68. When you're in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that's the way they're supposed to act. And girls think that's an accepted way men will treat them.

Jim Costa

#69. When life leaves you broken, wounded, and shattered, hope will give you strength to face another day.

Marie Cornelio

#70. Cancer runs in our family. I lost my grandmother to it. There's a saying that you meet people and instantly know them. My grandmother and I had that. The first time my heart was broken was when my grandmother passed away. I was twenty-one.

Cote De Pablo

#71. I name you Elentiya." She kissed the assassin's brow. "I give you this name to use with honour, to use when other names grow too heavy. I name you Elentiya, 'Spirit That Could Not Be Broken.

Sarah J. Maas

#72. I don't think anyone can give you advice when you've got a broken heart.

Britney Spears

#73. When I think about you with him, it guts me. I feel like you ripped open my chest and tore out my damn heart. Do you even realize that? I know I should want you to be happy, but I can't wish it for anyone else other than me. I belong to you, and that's never going to change.

Ashleigh Z.

#74. When you put a poem on a Kindle, the lines are broken in order to fit on the screen. And so instead of being the poet's decision, it becomes the device's decision.

Billy Collins

#75. It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

Willie Aames

#76. But it's hard to leave a place when you're tied to it by fear, when it's broken you with fear, when it's all you've ever known.

Claire Legrand

#77. A hungry man can be a fast learner. When you come to a table with nothing but need, you are grateful for things you might have pushed aside before. And when you kneel, hungry & broken at His table, you receive a grace from Him you might, at some other time, have completely missed.

Mike Yankoski

#78. If you don't try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become.

Rumi

#79. Love comes again
Just when I've broken down I found
Love can come again
You've got to believe that.

Tiesto

#80. Because when your world has fallen apart around you, it is your friends, your family, that keep you from slipping between the broken crevices.

Eden Butler

#81. When you've already broken the rules of the universe, fear becomes only a feeling of disconnection, distant.

Jonas Samuelle

#82. Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.

Helene Cixous

#83. For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.

Heidi Klum

#84. When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it.

Shia Labeouf

#85. What's stopping you then?"
"Apathy and a broken heart," I say. "Both of those will go away eventually, though, and that's when I'll just get up and leave.

Pittacus Lore

#86. When you're dreaming with a broken heart, the waking up is the hardest part. You roll outta bed and down on your knees and for a moment you can hardly breathe.

John Mayer

#87. The gaps are part of the set, too," she'd said. "You can't replace them. I know how each piece was broken or lost. I broke a plate myself when I was nine. Now I'm an immortal part of the pattern. I'll take my gaps, thank you.

Josiah Bancroft

#88. When you are broken open you get to discover for the first time what is inside you.

Bryant McGill

#89. When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back.

Arthur Miller

#90. When you're trapped in a prison, and your heart is broken, and you can't move a finger because you don't know what to do, that's when you wake up.

Robin Gregory

#91. The passion you forbade my lips to utter Will not be silenced. You must hear it in The sullen thunders when they roll and mutter: And when the tempest nears, with wail and din, I know your calm forgetfulness is broken, And to your heart you whisper, "He has spoken."

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#92. Because I think I saw you, yesterday morning when I woke up. I think my eyes worked again, just for a moment, and you were the light I saw.

N.K. Jemisin

#93. How horrifying that morning when you wake up and your first thought is not of the person who has left. That's when you know, I will never die of a broken heart.

Kamila Shamsie

#94. Where do you go with your broken heart in tow? What do you do with the left over you? And how do you know, when to let go? Where does the good go, where does the good go?

Tegan Quin

#95. Quinn, a little heads up next time would be awesome. You know, just a little text message saying, 'Oh, by the way, when you get home, there will be two way too hot for human kind identical freaking twins, living right next door.' Something like that, no big deal.

Kimberly Lauren

#96. You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that anymore, well, you know, there you go. Trust was broken.

George Tenet

#97. Here's another thing: There are certain wounds that never heal, certain hurts that never leave you alone, like a broken bone that heals wrong and always twinges when it's about to rain.

Robert Goolrick

#98. Imagine what your life will look like when you have broken the bondage of fear.

Bruce Wilkinson

#99. There is no reprieve when you have a broken mind; cease-fires are rare. Even on good days,
you know everything could change on a dime. Fear is your constant shadow

Barbara Claypole White

#100. Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken, we wonder why you were relying in the system in the first place.

Seth Godin