Quotes About Fragmentation

For you know only a heap of broken images

Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken images

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.

no sé si has visto cómo el paisaje se va rompiendo cuando lo miras alejarse...

Furthermore, we exist in a psychologically fragmented state, a state of continuous inner conflicts among the parts of ourselves. We have lost the principle of unity within ourselves. We are not only psychological polytheists, worshipping gods of our own creation, we are "polyselfists," because we have many selves and have not known our essential self.

All is one. Don't let me forget this, don't let the bastards divide me again. Our tragedy is fragmentation. It begins as a state of mind and ends up as destiny. It is the tragedy of our family of nations who hobble across this great peninsula, this exquisitely set Earth, like an army of blind soldiers a thousand years old looking for a place to rest. Let them rest. Forgive them, forgive me, forgive us. Our fear drove us insane and melancholy.

Nuestra historia política oscila entre la fragmentación de poder y el caos, por un lado, y su excesiva concentración y sus consecuencias indeseadas, por el otro. No hemos logrado los equilibrios: un grado de desarrollo político en el que el gobierno funcione inserto en esquemas de contención, controles y contrapesos.

Literature is the fragment of fragments', wrote Goethe in Wilhelm Meister's Years of Wandering, the great sad novel of his old age:

Dust represents the disintegration of the universe.

Unjustified linguistic barriers fragment the unity with which nature presents us.

If integrate means "to make whole," then its opposite is to fracture, disown, disjoin, detach, unravel, or separate.

Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and often so utilitarian, that there are few places where we can feel truly safe.

The broken charm of the world about was broken into smaller pieces.

Y entonces llega un momento en el que, de repente, todo parece del revés. Vivimos en la mente, en ideas, en fragmentos. Ya no nos embebemos más en la salvaje y lejana música de las calles: solamente recordamos.

Maybe I could dole out the truth in tiny pieces that, once assembled, would make a picture that resembled a reality in which I hadn't done anything wrong.

The norm of bipartisan agreement has been shattered forever and, once shattered, it cannot be put back together.

My siblings and I kept everything to ourselves, and rather than blowing up in an instant, my family broke apart slowly.

If you love, love totally; if you hate, hate totally. Don't be fragmentary; suffer the consequences. Because of consequences you try to deceive.

And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention

That's how we survive infinity - we kill it by breaking it up into small bits.

Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision. Mosaic celebrates brokenness and the beauty of being brought together

Somehow I wasn't adding up right anymore. My parts weren't summing into myself.

before he left home, he broke his name. Broke it into thirty-eight tiny pieces… He swept up all the pieces of who he was and tucked them away in an inside pocket. And over the years, as he met people who ended up sharing the road with him, travelling with him for a while, he would quietly give each of them a piece of his name… with all the jigsaw pieces of his name scattered about, they wouldn't be able to get all of him when they came to take him away.

Comme tout les rêves, celui de l'égalitarisme présuppose un monde fragmentaire, fait exclusivement de braves gens qui ne songent qu'à pétrir leur pain en traquilité sans être molestés ni par les loups ni par les dieux ; or les loups sont dans les "braves gens" eux-mêmes, et quant aux dieux fauteur de "fanatisme", il suffit de les mettre en veilleuse pour que les diables viennent les remplacer.