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Quotes About Shattered

All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.
~ Robert Jordan
But what finally ended this cycle was Verdi's Requiem Mass, which he had never heard performed on Earth. The "Dies Irae," roaring with ominous appropriateness through the empty ship, left him completely shattered;
~ Arthur C. Clarke
a brick came down from the roof of one of the houses, and was shattered to fragments at my feet.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Every dream of friendship deserves to be shattered. It is not by chance that you have never been loved…. To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice.
~ Simone Weil
You were heavily armed with faith, and that made your heart a castle. My heart, by contrast, is an abandoned house whose windows are shattered and doors unhinged. Ghosts play inside it, and the winds wail. As
~ Sinan Antoon
This family may be broken. It may be shattered. But it's my broken, shattered family. And I want to be here, I finally admit to myself. To be at the party, even if I'm invisible. This is the last hurrah, even if no one's cheering. I just can't walk away.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Far-stretching, endless Time Brings forth all hidden things, And buries that which once did shine. The firm resolve falters, the sacred oath is shattered; And let none say, It cannot happen here.
~ Sophocles
occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
This is what it feels like to be really afraid. Though of course it doesn't. None of this can truly approach the reality of that fear, there in the midst of all that bedlam, like the sound of a heart or some other unholy blast, desperate & dying, slamming, no banging into the thin wall of my inner ear, paper thin in fact, attempting to shatter inside what had already been shattered long ago. I should be dead. Why am I still here?
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
She wondered if she would have tumbled into love with him during the past week if her heart had been whole, if her soul had no been shattered long ago. She rather thought she might have. But a heart and soul could not be mended by the power of the will, she had discovered over seven years. And so she had accepted reality and moved on.
~ Mary Balogh
Ah, my love. Once dreams were shattered, there could be no assurance that they could ever be pieced together and dreamed again.
~ Mary Balogh
Somewhere the moon has fallen through a window and broken into thirty pieces of silver.
~ August Wilson
An imperfect human heart, perfectly shattered, was her conclusion. A condition so common as to be virtually universal, rendering issues of right and wrong almost incidental.
~ Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool
SUNLIGHT SHATTERED ON THE WATER
~ Gregory David Roberts
It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, rubbing elbows with the likes of Aldous Huxley and T.E. Lawrence, before World War I shattered everything forever.
~ Kevin Kwan
Your heart will be shattered by sorrow if you force it to live in tomorrow's ephemeral imagination - world instead of in today's eternal reality - now.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Sad, that lives can be shattered, into so many pieces that they can never be put back together, the the relentless force of love. Irreparable.
~ Ellen Hopkins
I was a shattered wreck,--the shadow of a human being.
~ Mary Shelley
fallen hero shatters into more sharp pieces than you'd believe.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
For years Gottlieb had overseen medical experiments and "special interrogation" projects in which hundreds of people were tormented and many minds were permanently shattered. No one had ever plunged into this kind of work with more ambition or enthusiasm.
~ Stephen Kinzer
We had hoped. It is what we say on the other side, when our vision is shattered and we feel ourselves to be fools for trusting in something we couldn't even see.
~ Stephen Mansfield
Upon your shattered ruins where, This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble.
~ Eleanor Farjeon
All the evil in the world, it comes from shattered love. [Ellen Terry, to Bram Stoker]
~ Joseph O'Connor
Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime.
~ Sam Sheppard