Broken Quotes

The chains of habit are generally too weak to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.

We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

If you have been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, than you're a badass with a heart of an angel.

The world breaks everyone, and afterwards many are strong at the broken places.

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

An unbending tree is easily broken.

Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

The heart was made to be broken.

When trust is broken, sorry means nothing.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

If an egg is broken by outside, life ends. If broken by inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from inside.

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

My body had become an entombment of fat covering the pain and loneliness of a broken heart and spirit.

It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world.  It is only these two blessed things that can begin to heal all the broken hearts.

One small crack does not mean you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn't fall apart.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed;

The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

It is those of us who have been broken that become experts at mending.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Art is to console those who are broken by life

You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

People think, because we're young, we aren't complex, but that's not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

Don't start your day with the broken pieces of yesterday. Every morning we wake up is the first day of the rest of our life.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

His heart had been broken. And now all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible fact of human existance was that broken hearts mended.

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

One day someone is going to hug you so tight that all of your broken pieces will stick back together.

When we give in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us.

I think relationships are broken up because of the media.

Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

Where there is a secret - there is a heart waiting to be broken.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Eggs and oaths are easily broken.

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Stop trying to ‘fix’ yourself; you’re NOT broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure.

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost;

The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.

The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage -- not I. I only break its bondage.

Love can heal a broken heart.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.

A threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Don't fix what's not broken.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. I am Jack's Broken Heart.

People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.

The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.

Enemies promises were made to be broken.

Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell;

it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

We've all fallen, but at the same time we're not broken.

There is the hint that we are going to get up again.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats' feet over broken glass In our dry cellar Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture without motion; - The Hollow Men

In all matters of creativity, rules are meant to be broken when necessary.

America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.

When you ask "why," and defy the system, and poke at what seems broken, you become the revolution by spurring the transformation from what is - into what will be.

Promises and Pye-Crusts, are made to be broken.

Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.

Civilization rests on a set of promises;

if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.

Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, and yet the cold blue word is spoken: say goodbye now to the Sun, the days of love and leaves are done.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

Our current tax system is broken.

I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don't think that was love. I think as I'm getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I'll experience it. At the moment, I don't know, exactly, if I've been in love.

Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken.

When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

I bet some of you feel sorry for me. Well don't. Having an artificial leg has its advantages. I've broken my right knee many times and it doesn't hurt a bit.

I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s.

When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

Pan, who and what art thou? he cried huskily.

I'm youth, I'm joy, Peter answered at a venture, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing;

it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial, far beyond the reach of history, had they possessed their mountain holdings.

My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted.

Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.

Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.

Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship.

Much of the educational system is a broken relic, a symbol of shortsightedness and corporate greed.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart It means we have tried for something

Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?

America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a crankshaft that's 5000 millimeters off fitting properly, and two bad ball-bearings, and still runs. We're in that kind of situation. We can have substantial parts of the population committing suicide, and still run and look fairly good.

There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future

Work was impossible. The geeks had broken my spirit. They had done too many things wrong. It was never like this for Mencken. He lived like a Prussian gambler -- sweating worse than Bryant on some nights and drunker than Judas on others. It was all a dehumanized nightmare...and these raddled cretins have the gall to complain about my deadlines.

Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves -- that's the truth.

We have two or three great moving experiences in our lives -- experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before.

Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good;

a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -

The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.

The obstacles you face are... mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach.

The majority of the diseases which the human family have been and still are suffering under, they have created by ignorance of their own organic health, and work perseveringly to tear themselves to pieces, and when broken down and debilitated in body and mind, send for the doctor and drug themselves to death.

It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane.

Imagine a man wearing a mask, and imagine that the elastic which holds the mask on has just broken, so that the man (rather than let the mask slip off) has to tilt his head back and balance the mask on his real face. This is the kind of tyranny which Lawson's face exerts over the rest of his body as he cruises along the corridors. He doesn't look down his nose at you, he looks along his nose.

With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

I want to be remembered as the girl who always smiles even when her heart is broken. And the one that could always brighten up your day even if she couldnt brighten her own.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.

Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts.

They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.