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Quotes About Broken

You philosophers, however raised above your own bodies you may be, must really not forget we poor worldlings have bones to be broken.
~ Charles Kingsley
We're all fallen people in a fallen world. Where does a man find healing amid so many broken places? How does he find love in the ruins and vine-wrapped shattered pieces of his own soul? Because love's springing up through the rocks.
~ Charles Martin
but he was incapable of shame.He had no conscience or soul.No heart, either.That has broken and died years ago.The leftover pieces had petrified in his chest, leaving stone shrapnel in a black, empty place that felt nothing.Just a yawning void of nothing.And he liked it that way...
~ Charlotte Featherstone
For two days I had the company of a girl. She appeared next to me. It was no less of a miracle if it was my imagination which had summoned her up, because it happened at the very moment I had broken down and given up.
~ Yossi Ghinsberg
Over the course of my creative life, I've trafficked in broken, heroic mothers.
~ Peter Hedges
The Broken Bow group is such a great family and seem like a group of tight-knit people. When I looked for a new label, I wanted to feel I could trust everybody. I wanted motivation to be at an all-time high.
~ Fatima Siad
If our heart's foundation is solid, based on God's truth, design, and purpose for us, we will be able to build healthy, God-honoring relationships even though we are flawed people living in a broken world. By contrast, broken community is always the result of broken foundations.
~ Timothy S. Lane
She was broken. Not broken up but broken down, down into her separate parts.
~ Toni Morrison
The implicit consensus of the postwar decades was now broken, and a new, decidedly unnatural consensus was beginning to emerge around the primacy of private interest.
~ Tony Judt
Phryne escaped from the babble to go outside and scan the ground in front of the broken window.
~ Kerry Greenwood
I've made mistakes, been broken by evil, and wished fervently for my life to be taken from me. The past will never change. But my imperfect past brought me here, and it's a remarkable place to be. All I've suffered, all you have suffered, Kathryn, has not made us weak. It has made us wise.
~ Kirsten Beyer
Believers can, however, be oppressed by coming under the control of a demonic spirit and have their lives broken into pieces through a lifestyle of sin,
~ Kris Vallotton
The glass can be half empty or half full." Leni knew the glass was broken.
~ Kristin Hannah
I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings.
~ Carmen Boullosa
Margrethe watched them paralyzed by the intensity of the emotions moving through her. So much pain and euphoria, a sense that even though her own heart was broken, the world could contain such beauty and magic she almost could not bear it? What did her own pain matter, in the face of that?
~ Carolyn Turgeon
I'm truly sorry Man's dominion Has broken Nature's social union, An' justifies that ill opinion, Which makes thee startle At me, thy poor, earth-born companion, An' fellow-mortal! Robert Burns To a Mouse
~ George Monbiot
The stone is strong. Bran told himself, the roots of the trees go deep, and under the ground the Kings of Winter sit their thrones. So long as those remained, Winterfell remained. It was not dead, just broken. Like me, he thought. I'm not dead either.
~ George R.R. Martin
Nel mio cuore c'è un debole per storpi, bastardi e cose spezzate. Tyrion Lannister
~ George R.R. Martin
He was bright as broken glass and sharp enough to cut himself.
~ George R.R. Martin
To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.
~ George Washington
Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, make the soul dance upon a jig of heaven.
~ Alexander Pope
It is arrogance to expect that life will always be music.... Harmony, like a following breeze at sea, is the exception. In a world where most things wind up broken or lost, our lot is to tack and tune.
~ Harvey Oxenhorn
But something was broken in her. She wasn't suicidal, but in the end isn't that what happened? She risked her life, her health, her dreams every time she took those pills, washed them down with vodka.
~ J.D. Robb
I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best.
~ J.M. Coetzee