Quotes About Fragmented

Sculpture is about process, and this process is often fragmented. In a way, our lives are like that. A lot of people have trouble with transitions, with discontinuity. But this is what makes us grow. It's mysterious. You shift to a new platform and see things from a different perspective. Art does that. Wildlife does that. Wildlife and art reveal these transitions and demand we experience them.

I felt dull and flat and full of shattered visions.

He'd meant to take her apart with a kiss. How, then, did he wind up in pieces?

En fin, vamos a ver: tu vida, ¿es una unidad para vos? —No, no creo. Son pedazos, cosas que me fueron pasando.

En alguna parte Morelli procuraba justificar sus incoherencias narrativas, sosteniendo que la vida de los otros, tal como nos llega en la llamada realidad, no es cine sino fotografía, es decir que no podemos aprehender la acción sino tan sólo sus fragmentos eleáticamente recortados.

vienen como todo el resto, se pegan a la vida por un momento y después hay como una ansiedad rencorosa, huecos volcándose para mostrar jirones que se enganchan en cualquier otra cosa...

I can think of no people more fragmented... Craftsmen you see, but no humans, thinkers, but no humans, priests, but no humans, lords and servants, boys and established peoples but no humans--is this not like a battlefield, where hands and arms and all limbs lie chaotically in pieces, while the spilled blood of life runs into the sand?

The strange and scattered pieces of ourselves we leave behind,

He said at another time that she had no heart; and he added in a moment that she had given it all away—in small pieces, like a frosted wedding-cake.

I came away with pieces of you sticking to me

The history of blacks is complicated, fragmented, disturbing to contemplate - not a neat trail of challenges met or of felled trees blocking the path to the mountain top.

I realized the world around me was fragmented and broken... I had to be gentle enough not to scrape against the jagged pieces. I would not be cut today.

Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and split the peaceful fruits with their corners.

The phone she left behind in its foggy balloon is just recording the empty aluminum canoe now, and one blurry corner of the little cooler. But it's listening in its muted way. What it hears is the front part of Lotte's scream. She doesn't get to finish it.

Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside.

Wij zijn niets dan stukjes en beetjes, verweven tot zó'n vormeloos en onsamenhangend geheel dat elk onderdeel, elk moment, een eigen rol speelt. En er bestaat evenveel onderscheid tussen ons en onszelf als tussen ons en de ander.

Like asking at first Where am I after dream—and the room, in pieces, slow, comes back

a kaleidoscopic, fragmented rush of images that exploded out of memory. They careened into her like an avalanche and swept her away

If literature matters today, it is chiefly because it seems to many conventional critics one of the few remaining places where, in a divided, fragmented world, a sense of universal value may still be incarnate; and where, in a sordidly material world, a rare glimpse of transcendence can still be attained.

a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvellous facets and rainbows but, ultimately, also something was broken.

JUSTINE: Is the story supposed to be jumping around like that, from Mary's head, to Diana's, to Beatrice's?

Hard rock will always be hard rock, but you don't really know what is rock - and what isn't - anymore. I don't consider a lot of the pop things I hear on the radio to be rock n' roll. It's just kind of fragmented.

Familiar routine is balm to a fragmented soul.

I can't help it. All those sharp little shards inside me could be answers, but they've come loose. Now I see them in fragments that don't make any more sense than my nightmares do. Those puzzle pieces are all in there somewhere. I know it.