Quotes About Shattered

It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.

The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike cries of the wounded, and in the night shattered life groans painfully into silence. Our hands are earth, our bodies clay and our eyes pools of rain. We do not know whether we are still alive.

He was now entirely disillusioned and his whole life shattered. His heart's devotion had been at Mrs. Dean's feet, and she had found it trying.

A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.

She thought, I need no cup. I am Chalice. I am filling with the grief and hurt and fear of my demesne; the shattered earthlines weigh me down; I am brimming with the needs of my people.

His voice shifted into a sexual purr. "I love you. And I've waited a lifetime to be your lover. But you were too young, Lady." She raised her head, her body stiff with dignity. "I wasn't too young here, in the abyss." Slowly, he continued moving around the altar. "Your body had been violated. Your mind had shattered. But even if that hadn't been the case, you were still too young—even here in the abyss.

With these words there came the rending scream of a shattered stirk and an angry troubling of the branches as the poor madman percolated through the sieve of a sharp yew, a wailing black meteor hurtling through green clouds, a human prickles.

and scattering onto the floor.

There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.

There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying.

Even in times of grief, we can keep from being submerged and shattered if we seek out God's words of comfort today, letting shafts of sunlight from His presence break through our darkness.

The camera sees broken windows.

The fine wall of leaden crystal that had protected her heart - somehow numbed her into disbelief - shattered.

the people with boring, low-status jobs just wanted to collapse in front of the television when they got home. Why would that be? "When work is enriching, life is fuller, and that spills over into the things you do outside work," he said to me. But "when it's deadening," you feel "shattered at the end of the day, just shattered.

My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.

It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.

The good thing about carrying on a conversation with a phantom voice projected by some fragment of your shattered subconscious is, you can brush your teeth at the same time.

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

There is no telling what would happen if I taught her The Word." "Not the least. Of course, there's some werethings that just aren't much use being. Take a wereant. You change and somebody steps on you and that's that. Or like a fella, I knew in Madagascar. Taught him the Word and know what? He turned wereiplodicus. Shattered the whole house into pieces when he changed and damned near trampled me under hoof before I could say Absarka!

You never realise how fragile everything is until it breaks. And that day it was all smashed.

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

What happens to the rest of something when you smash its heart?

That's the difficulty in these times: ideals, dreams, and cherished hopes rise within us, only to meet the horrible truth and be shattered.

She had led him from the command post into a chilly night canopied with stars like stone-edged facets of shattered brilliants.