Quotes About Shattered

Sometimes we are too fragile to to this work; we cannot risk being shattered because we are not ready to put ourselves back together again.

They were both so young and both so sure that life would work out exactly as they hoped. Well, already plans and vows lay shattered across the floor. Could they not see that?

vivíamos, cuántos fragmentos de nosotros mismos salían volando como si vivir fuese estallar en esquirlas.

En qué desorden vivíamos, cuántos fragmentos de nosotros mismos salían volando como si vivir fuese estallar en esquirlas.

In quale disordine vivevamo, quanti frammenti di noi stessi schizzavano via come se vivere fosse esplodere in schegge.

if you looked at it a certain way it seemed like a monument to destroyed women-- their ossified bodies and shattered psyches.

I was like a clock that had exploded- my springs were hanging out, my hands were cockeyed, and my numbers were falling off.

I look like a quarry someone has dynamited.

Our communications reflect in our countenance. Therefore, we must be careful not only what we communicate, but also how we do so. Souls can be strengthened or shattered by the message and the manner in which we communicate.

Hope rises like a phoenix from the ashes of shattered dreams.

Too many illusions were being shattered for Catherine these last few days. While the court was grand, it was also terrifying, and the illustrious figures of court were merely men and women in positions of extraordinary power. Power that could be taken away at any moment.

My mortal life had been shattered, my soul soaring and then fallen, my vampire life erasing all the small accomplishments and consolations of the man I'd once been.

Be forever dead in Eurydice-more gladly arise into the seamless life proclaimed in your song. Here, in the realm of decline, among momentary days, be the crystal cup that shattered even as it rang.

I began to think the damage to our country, to us even, went so deep now that it would never fully be repaired. I realised the worst damage wasn't the bombed buildings, the burnt-out cars, the shattered windows. It wasn't even the neglected farms and the holes in the fences and the crops gone to seed. It was the damage deep inside us. Words like spirit and soul started to mean more to me now.

She seemed to him a long spill of dark water, a black surface shattered with ephermal reflections of light.

My peace and focus, in any case, had been shattered, and there was no hope now of a steady hand.

He had thought of her poise as being that of a woman of experience, and been a little afraid of it, he saw it now as the self-confidence of a girl whose adolescent pride had never been shattered. And now it had been shattered, by humble old Harriet of all people, and they could start again together....

Little Alice, all hollowed out, so easy to smash into a million little pieces.

I heard how people sounded when their dreams were shattered, when their lives were turned into a waking nightmare.

It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.

Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame.

Trauma silences a person. It shatters your identity, and along with it, much of what you thought you knew.

Like a gale smiting an oak On mountainous terrain, Eros, with a stroke, Shattered my brain.

I idolized my parents' marriage. It didn't seem to me like they were having problems. My whole relationship ideal was shattered.