Quotes About Shattered

Both forms of consciousness, the one that bows before the facts and the other that mistakes itself for an overlord or creator of facts, are like the shattered halves of the truth that was not fulfilled in the world and the failure of which also affects thought. The truth cannot be patched together from its pieces.

He was just scraps of words and dislocated phrases.

You are a shell of a man, all she has to do is knock against you to find out you are empty.

The city hurt to look at, all angles and glints of sun like shattered glass.

That would be like breaking a mirror for showing you the truth.

Our all-powerful God got so scared He scattered the human race across the face of the earth, and shattered their language to keep His children apart.

His eyelids closed—buckled, really—the bones in his face so fragile they shattered under the weight of his very lids as he dropped to the threshold of existence. His last breath had already left him. And as he fell, life did the same.

A controlled outward explosion," Kurt said. "Basically, a giant sucking sound that ends with us flying out through the shattered window and free-falling toward the ocean for approximately ten minutes. Which will seem rather pleasant when compared to the sudden stop at the bottom.

Her smile could've broken glass.

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospect; it has to be shattered before ascertained.

at the peak of this human agonised, selfless tenderness (with my soul actually hanging around her naked body and ready to repent), all at once, ironically, horribly, lust would swell again - and "oh no," Lolita would say with a sigh to heaven, and the next moment the tenderness and the azure - all would be shattered

You obliterated me.

When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead — When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed....

...chaos of color, like a shattered rainbow...

Despite everything that has befallen us, do we not continue to hold the destiny of this shattered and magnificent nation, together with the future of all our children-girls and boys alike-in the palm of our hands?

Mon verre s'est brisé comme un éclat de rire

Up close, she could see the sharp, cold, look that she constantly shot at Mr. Treviso, particularly when there was a break, and she was waiting to come in. It shattered illusion for Mildred. She preferred to remain at a distance, to enjoy this child as she seemed, rather than as she was.

Because pieces of your heart clearly weigh more when they're sitting shattered at the bottom of your stomach.

There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.

buildings—faded brick buildings enclosed by a faded brick wall. A school, perhaps, or the estate of a dull family. The buildings had once been elegant, but many of the windows were shattered

But you don't belong here! You're dead!I sobbed against his chest. Zo,babe,this is the Otherworld. It's not me who doesn't belong here-it's you. Memory crashed over me, drowning me with despair and darkness and reality as my world shattered,and evrything went black.

A double-edged sword One side destroys One releases I am not your Gordian knot Will you release or destroy me? Follow truth and you shall: Find me on water Purify me through fire Trapped by earth nevermore Air will whisper to you What spirit already knows: That even shattered anything is possible If you believe Then we shall both be free.

The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.

the ice was not only broken; it was shivered into a million fragments