logo

Quotes About Broken

I have been smashed and put back together so many times nothing works right. Nothing is where it should be, heavy thumping in my shoulder where my heart now beats.
~ Elizabeth Scott
Little Alice, all hollowed out, so easy to smash into a million little pieces.
~ Elizabeth Scott
I'm broken, I have cut myself wide open. I can see my heart and it is not what I believed it was, it is not good and kind and all the things I have always thought I am.
~ Elizabeth Scott
tulip stem inside me snapped. This is what I felt. It has stayed snapped, it never grew back.
~ Elizabeth Strout
But it was almost over, after all, her life. It swelled behind her like a sardine fishing net, all sorts of useless seaweed and broken bits of shells and the tiny, shining fish—
~ Elizabeth Strout
What Wilson aspired to be, to be hailed as the savior of his people and the light of humanity, Lenin had already achieved, but through unbelievable brutality and ruthlessness, and in a broken, starving country.
~ Arthur Herman
There are scenes from books I'm happy with. I tend to think my books are all broken. But then my favourite reads are almost always books that don't, in the end, pull off what they set out to do.
~ Michael Winter
For millions of Americans who happen to be black or brown, that core bond of trust with the government that governs closest to you, is too often broken.
~ Joy Reid
I have taken so many wrong turns and been so careless with precious things and managed to lose, or break, or leave out in the rain so much that I loved.
~ Garrison Keillor
Like that cracked and broken pot, we humans are flawed. We have been damaged by pain, persecution, and disappointment. Yet God sees the value in each of us and continues to use us as His messengers
~ Gary Chapman
Without the Babe in the manger, I am a broken branch; as I abide in the love of Christ, I am enabled to bring forth the fruit of the Spirit. — Patricia A. Moyer
~ Gary Chapman
Who was, who could be, more broken, exiled, and despairing than Maytera Marble?
~ Gene Wolfe
Dont be afraid: she never comes to words with anyone now, poor woman! respectability has broke all the spirit out of her.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Our sweet illusions are half of them conscious illusions, like effects of colour that we know to be made up of tinsel, broken glass and rags.
~ George Eliot
What's broke can never be whole again.
~ George Eliot
For so many in the UK, the social contract is broken - the idea that if you work hard and play by the rules, you'll reap the rewards. Advances in robotics, artificial intelligence and other technologies are just as capable of fixing the social contract as they are to weaken it further.
~ Jo Swinson
Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.
~ Jared Polis
Remember, trust is such a thing that once it is broken, it remains broken.
~ Sagar Maurya
Why do they call it a 'mental' illness? The pain isn't just in my head; it's everywhere, but mainly at my throat and in my heart. Perhaps my heart is broken.
~ Sally Brampton
Honestly, I had no idea that the heart could cause such trouble and strife. It could be broken and still mend. It could be wounded and still heal. It could be given away still returned, lost and found. It could do all that and still you lived, though according to some, only just.
~ Sally Gardner
I don't mind any of the broken things. I like to figure out their stories." -George
~ Sara Pennypacker
My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain.
~ Sara Teasdale
Champion Ven knelt in the ruins of the village. Sifting through the rubble, he lifted out a broken doll, its pink dress streaked with dirt and its pottery face cracked. There was always a broken doll. Why did there always have to be a damn doll?
~ Sarah Beth Durst
They shared a hostel with other broken, displaced people, from the worst parts of the world.
~ Marian Keyes