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Quotes About Shattered

A girl once told me to be careful when trying to fix a broken person...for you may cut yourself on their shattered pieces!!
~ Unknown
The barriers of impossibility, which close off the field of reality to our dreams and desires, were shattered, and his thoughts drifted exuberantly through the unattainable, fired by their own movement.
~ Marcel Proust
and now she was looking like a grenade went off in a drawer of metallic ribbons.
~ John Scalzi
Then Samuel died and the world shattered like a dish.
~ John Steinbeck
The glass wall behind must have blown out as well, four stories of lethal shards surfing the roar of air and fire.
~ Marcus Sakey
She was so shattered about what kind of man he was -- brutal, tender, passionate. There was little doubt he had some mental disorder.
~ Margaret Way
I was going to become a human sand burger.
~ Unknown
Quiet, ? she hissed at me, her voice shockingly aggressive for such a small person. "Otherwise, I'll shut you up myself.
~ Unknown
Love has nothing to do with it. It's commitment and toughness when your world shatters around you. It's losing babies and jobs and hope. It's sickness and pain, and disillusionment and broken dreams.
~ Unknown
The world had broken; the pieces lay like shattered gold, spoil for the strongest.
~ Mary Renault
to the waves and the depths of the ocean. A storm may be raging at the surface, but the depths remain calm. The wise man always remains connected to the depths. On the other hand, he who knows only the surface and is unaware of the depths is lost when he is buffeted by the waves of suffering. But how, you might ask, can I avoid being shattered
~ Matthieu Ricard
The shattered wall, the broken tower have a story to tell - from the touchstones of ruins and ancient texts we make a pilgrimage. from The Ruins
~ Unknown
how many times a heart could break before it was shattered into so many minute fragments there was no heart left at all.
~ Unknown
Pieces of story she would discover intact in her. She would draw them into the air with a single phrase and be elsewhere for a moment, eyes distant and eyelashes winging as an image fleeted past. Christy would gently try and bring forth more, but like a fallen chandelier inside her the whole was shattered and beyond repair and there were only exquisite shards.
~ Niall Williams
Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.
~ Ovid
Her voice was like a portrait of her soul: wild as a fire, sharp as shattered glass, sweet and clean as clover.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace.
~ Paullina Simons
When the lamp is shatteredThe light in the dust lies dead—When the cloud is scatteredThe rainbow's glory is shed.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead — When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed....
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
But rebels and sinners will together be shattered, and those who forsake the LORD will perish.
~ Isaiah 1:28
Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for battle, and be shattered; prepare for battle, and be shattered!
~ Isaiah 8:9
Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”
~ Isaiah 21:9
The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.
~ Isaiah 24:10
For Assyria will be shattered at the voice of the LORD; He will strike them with His scepter.
~ Isaiah 30:31