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Quotes About Broken

Who said, 'All Time's delight Hath she for narrow bed; Life's troubled bubble broken'? --- That's what I said.
~ Walter de La Mare
When our tools don't work, we tend to blame ourselves, for being too stupid or not reading the manual or having too-fat fingers... When our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole.
~ Walter Isaacson
It is to be broken. It is to be torn open. It is not to be reached and come to rest in ever. I turn against you, I break from you, I turn to you. We hurt, and are hurt, and have each other for healing. It is healing. It is never whole.
~ Wendell Berry
The books talked about it [the heart] as if it were a sump pump stuck down in the muck and mire of somebody's backyard. Never in all my scientific reading did I encounter anything that talked about a broken heart. Never did I read anything about what the heart felt, how it felt or why it felt. Feeling and knowing weren't important, only understanding
~ Charles Martin
Maybe broken is what happens before you become unbroken.
~ Charles Martin
You can choose that if you want, or you can realize that we are all just broken, and sometimes no matter how hard we try and no matter what we do, people just don't love us back.' He
~ Charles Martin
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
~ Charles Martin
Everyone has a time machine. Everyone *is* a time machine. It's just that most people's time machines are broken. The strangest and hardest kind of time travel is the unaided kind. People get stuck, people get looped. People get trapped. But we are all time machines.
~ Charles Yu
PROMISES means EVERYTHING but after they are broken SORRY means NOTHING
~ Charlie Higson
Spring... thaws the frozen fears, mends the wounded heart that Winter has broken.
~ Aarno Davidson
Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.
~ Harlan Coben
Actually, Jesus is a specialist at healing broken hearts and removing the emotional scars that have been inflicted by cruel perpetrators of hatred.
~ Harold J. Sala
And so it was I entered the broken world To trace the visionary company of love, its voice An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled) But not for long to hold each desperate choice.
~ Hart Crane
Love is surrounded by four failures. Failure to care until pushed. Failure to cure until heard. Failure to listen when confused. Failure to ignore when broken.
~ Heather Lydia Thornhill
What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.
~ Jane Austen
Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.
~ Jane Austen
They have cracked souls," she said. "You know how some people are born with physical defects? Like those sweet Down syndrome babies. I think some people are born with souls that aren't all there. Or maybe their souls got a crack somewhere along the line. Like a broken leg, only it's a soul.
~ Janet Evanovich
There was another crunch in the darkness, and I suspected Morelli had accidentally broken something belonging to Kenny. Like his nose, maybe.
~ Janet Evanovich
There was the added advantage that if the intruder was barefoot, he'd cut himself on the broken glass. Of course, this was unlikely since it was November and forty degrees.
~ Janet Evanovich
Take my advice. Stay away from all broken people.
~ Janet Fitch
The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue.
~ Hjalmar Schacht
We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.
~ Paul Ryan
I think my new iPhone 5S is broken. I pressed the home button and I'm still at work
~ Will Ferrell
A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.
~ Arthur Miller