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Quotes About Falling apart

The mind is always seeking zones of safety, and these zones of safety are continually falling apart. Then we scramble to get another zone of safety back together again.
~ Pema Chodron
We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of samsara—the cycle of suffering that comes from continuing to seek happiness in all the wrong places.
~ Pema Chodron
It is my job to create universes, as the basis of one novel after another. And I have to build them in such a way that they do not fall apart two days later. Or at least that's what my editors hope. However, I will reveal a secret to you: I like to build universes which do fall apart. I like to see them unglued, and I like to see how how the characters in the novel cope with this problem. I have a scret love of chaos. There should be more of it.
~ Philip K. Dick
You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway.
~ David Levithan
We tend to think that the future happens later, but we're creating it in our minds every day. When the present falls apart, so does the future we had associated with it. And having the future taken away is the mother of all plot twists. But if we spend the present trying to fix the past or control the future, we remain stuck in place, in perpetual regret.
~ Lori Gottlieb
Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person.
~ Jodi Picoult
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is lost The best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with passionate intensity.
~ W.B. Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world
~ W.B. Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosened upon the world.
~ W.B. Yeats
Centuries-old ways of looking at the world, centuries-old rules, are jettisoned seemingly overnight. Traditions are mocked and banished. A man—or woman—with an unstable mind sees things falling apart. 'The center cannot hold; / mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.' To a psychopath, anarchy is exciting, the chaotic world reflects his chaotic interior life, confirms his conviction that anything should be allowed, that he can rightly do whatever he wants.
~ Dean Koontz
I took this dialogue as a warning to be on guard: the world is falling apart and tries to lure me into its disintegration.
~ Italo Calvino
Love was supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it fell apart at the details. It couldn't save a single child-not the ones who'd gone to Sterling High that day, expecting the normal; not Josie Cormier; certainly not Peter. So what was the recipe? Was it love, mixed with something else for good measure? Luck? Hope? Forgiveness?
~ Jodi Picoult
Love was supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it fell apart at the details.
~ Jodi Picoult
I realized today that I'd been the only one holding our relationship together because the moment I let go, it fell apart completely.
~ Unknown
I love sleep. My life has this tendency to fall apart when I'm awake.
~ Unknown
Sometimes your world falls apart. And it's okay for you to let people in and let them see you crumble
~ Jaci Burton
When people have no sense of self, relationships are just temporary distractions from the inner emptiness and fall apart at the first obstacle. My
~ Ma Jian
I built this shield around my heart. I didn't feel like falling apart. I closed my eyes and count to ten. I want go back to the days when I didn't pretend. I miss my smile. I missed being happy every once in awhile.
~ Unknown
Somebody falls in love, somebody breaks a heart. We never fell in love we only fell apart.
~ Unknown
You're the one who broke my heart, you're the reason I'm falling apart, you're the one who made me cry, yet I'm still in love with you and I dont know why.
~ Unknown
The houses were vacant, and a vacant house falls quickly apart.
~ John Steinbeck
We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
I've realized that life is indeed full of contradictions. Sometimes its crazy to be sane.You need to fall to fly. People suffer because you care.You have to unlearn to know the lesson. You have to give up because you are strong.You have to be wrong to make things right.Nonetheless, life's complexities are also life's source of beauty. We should cry to laugh again, fall apart to be whole again, and get hurt to love again.
~ Unknown
Seems like nothing's getting safer or better," I said. "Seems like everything's getting worse." "Maybe that's what's gotta happen," Willa Mae said. "Maybe everything's gotta break lose and fall apart before we can put it back together again right.
~ Unknown