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Quotes About Broken

People said love was the antidote to hate, that it could mend what was most broken, and give hope in the most hopeless of times.
~ Alice Hoffman
The secret name sounded like glass, something broken and strange
~ Alice Hoffman
deep inside could only be deciphered by someone who understood how easily a heart could be broken. "Wake up," Shelby would
~ Alice Hoffman
At the tips of the feathers there is air and at their base: blood. I hold up bones; I wish like broken glass they could court light....still I try to place these pieces back together, to set them firm, to make murdered girls live again.
~ Alice Sebold
She was hollow and lost and abandoned up.
~ Alice Sebold
Heaven. Now there's a thought. Nothing has ever been able, ultimately, to convince me we live anywhere else. And that heaven, more a verb than a noun, more a condition than a place, is about leading with the heart in whatever broken or ragged state it's in, stumbling forward in faith until, from time to time, we miraculously find our way.
~ Alice Walker
When he broke that commitment to art, to making beauty, to recording, to bearing witness, to saying yessiree to the life spirit, whose only request sometimes is just that you acknowledge you truly see it, he broke something in Hal.
~ Alice Walker
I don't want to suffer any more, I have had my mind broken open over and over before, I have been isolate and loveless always. I have not slept with anyone since I saw you, not because I was faithful but because I am afraid and I know no one. I will always be afraid I will always be worthless, I will always be alone till I die and I will be tormented long after you leave me.
~ Allen Ginsberg
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked... who wandered around and around at midnight in the railroad yard wondering where to go, and went, leaving no broken hearts...
~ Allen Ginsberg
God is faithful. Don't let a lack of evidence convince you that nothing is happening. In the unseen realm, things are changing in your favor. Forces that have stopped you in the past have been broken.
~ Joel Osteen
I hope that you are a disaster. I'm sorry, but I do. I hope that you are thunder and lightning. I hope you are a forest fire, I hope you kill the dead wood and burn off the rotting leaves. With the canopy gone, the sun can get in. You need new growth. I hope you're terrible and broken and perfect.
~ Joey Comeau
I like falling off my skateboard the way I like loving you. Broken hearts, like broken bones, hurt well.
~ Joey Comeau
You aren't a machine with broken parts. You are an animal whose needs are not being met.
~ Johann Hari
Unhappiness and depression are totally different things. There is nothing more infuriating to a depressed person than to be told to cheer up, or to be offered jolly little solutions as if they were merely having a bad week. It feels like being told to cheer yourself up by going out dancing after you've broken both your legs.
~ Johann Hari
Suffer the slash of vision by the fin-green stubble, Be by the ships' sea broken at the manstring anchored The stoved bones' voyage downward In the shipwreck of muscle; Give over, lovers, locking, and the seawax struggle, Love like a mist or fire through the bed of eels.
~ Dylan Thomas
He was broken from the start. And this stupid world took what was left of him and ground it into sand.
~ Ed Brubaker
Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
~ Anonymous
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
~ Anonymous
Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
~ Anonymous
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
~ Anonymous
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
~ Anonymous
All four pillars of democracy have broken down several years back , so no point of trusting any one of them.
~ Anonymous
Beyond the broken window hangs a windless night. Ashes swirling in starlight.
~ Anthony Doerr
Well, we're trying to patch and fix and put a cast on a broken system here. You can call it what you want, but we'll continue to purchase power in a private market.
~ Gray Davis