Broken glass. It's just like glitter, isn't it? — Pete Doherty
I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand — Andrew Solomon
...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
Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way. — Dale Chihuly
Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken. — Publilius Syrus
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole. — Derek Walcott
For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world. — Marc Chagall
Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape. — Mervyn Peake
We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in. — Ernest Hemingway
The heart can only be broken / once, like a window. — Eduardo C. Corral
There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts. — Neil Gaiman
So go ahead, break stuff. Break yourself on the once-hard edges of yourself. And recycle the debris into the foundation of your future. — Mark Twight
Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late. — Bryan Davis
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way. — Charles Kingsley
Short Broken Glass Quotes
People who live in glass houses have to wash their windows all the time. — Art Buchwald
Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass. — Muhammad Iqbal
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. — Leonard Cohen
Sometimes broken things deserve to be repaired. — Cam'ron
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust. — John Webster
Dirty, stained, withered, broken things seem beautiful to me. — Yohji Yamamoto
A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass. — Charles Spurgeon
People who live in a glass house have to answer the door. — Karl Pilkington
Broken Glass Image Quotes
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. — Anton Chekhov
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.
Shattered Glass Quotes
I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me. — Wallace Stegner
I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered. — Andrew Cuomo
I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses. — Lesley Garrett
When trust is broken, sorry means nothing.
Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls - family, health, friends, integrity - are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered. — Gary W. Keller
Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it. — Hillary Clinton
It didn’t rain for you, maybe, but it always rains for me. The sky shatters and rains shards of glass. — Tablo
One small crack does not mean you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn't fall apart.
Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you're picking up the pieces -- down to the last glassy splinter. — Saul Bellow
Shatter the glass. In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. Learn more about the face of your neighbor and less about your own. — Sargent Shriver
All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair. — Mitch Albom
A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor. — Anne Rice
Broken Images Quotes
Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused. — Alan Cohen
Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most is the death of imagination and originality and metaphor and passion. Then be bold and LOVE YOUR BODY. STOP FIXING IT. It was never broken. — Marion Woodman
All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart, The heavy steps of the plowman, splashing the wintry mold, Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart. — William Butler Yeats
If an egg is broken by outside, life ends. If broken by inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from inside.
God reminded me how beautiful we all are to Him, after all, we were created in His own image, and He looks at me, at you, in all our sweat and dirt and brokenness, and says, "I choose you. You are beautiful. — Katie Davis
Because a God who is ultimately most focused on his own glory will be about the business of restoring us, who are all broken images of him. His glory demands it. So we should be thankful for a self-sufficient God whose self-regard is glorious. — Matt Chandler
For you know only a heap of broken images — T. S. Eliot
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.
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes
They call me on and on across the universe
Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box
They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe — John Lennon
I have no urns, no dusty monuments;
No broken images of ancestors,
Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales
Of long descents, to boast false honors from. — Ben Jonson
The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon them. — Naomi Wolf
Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves. — Richard Paul Evans
Broken Pieces Quotes
I honestly didn't think miracles could ever come from my broken pieces, and I was disabled in fear that my dreams would always remain as dreams. Don't give up on you. Don't give up on God. Don't give up on love. — Nick Vujicic
Don't start your day with broken pieces of the past. Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand new day and it's yours. — Zig Ziglar
Call on your Lord when your heart is brittle, that is a time when it's in pieces and the Light of Allah can fill the gaps. That is why Allāh is with the broken hearted. — Hamza Yusuf
It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces. — Samuel Chadwick
The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel. I broke something, Old Man. How badly is it broken? It's in a million little pieces. I'm afraid I can't help you. Why? There's nothing you can do. Why? It can't be fixed. Why? It's broken beyond repair. It's in a million little pieces. — James Frey
It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it's probably because God has more pieces to work with. — Bob Goff
How we walk with the broken speaks louder than how we sit with the great.
You don't know what God can do with your broken pieces until you give God your broken pieces. — Nick Vujicic
Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection? — Mother Teresa
The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces. — Robert James Waller
Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall. — Jodi Picoult
Broken Things Quotes
it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world. — Mary Oliver
Men throw broken things away, but God never uses anything until he first breaks it. — Adrian Rogers
Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. — John Steinbeck
An unbending tree is easily broken.
You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else. — Alfred Adler
You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel. — Johnny Depp
God is with the broken-hearted. When your heart breaks, it’s a good thing – the breaking of the heart is what opens it up to the light of Allah. The dunya is designed to break your heart, to crush it. — Hamza Yusuf
I have a toothache today. I never seem to be able to rise above a toothache. It makes me want to howl, break things, pull noses, tweak ears, screech. — John Colton
There's no such thing as perfect people. There's no such thing as a perfect life. So come as you are, broken and scarred. Lift up your heart and be amazed and be changed by a perfect God. — Natalie Grant
Anything can be changed. Anything can be fixed. Things that are broken can be fixed. And you don't have to be some billionaire or millionaire to do it. You just have to be a person with a vision and the passion to do it, and be willing to fight for it every day. — Dana White
Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world. — Cassandra Clare
When he takes me in his arms, and speaks to me softly, I see the world through rose-colored glasses. — Edith Piaf
I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. Putin. — Mitt Romney
People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses. — P. J. Harvey
I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent. — Sharon Tate
I choose to look at people through God, using God as my glasses, colored with His love for them. — Frank Laubach
Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision — Rick Bayan
Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams. — Ann Landers
When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call "white" is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion. — Diane Ackerman
Some days seem to fit together like a stained glass window. A hundred little pieces of different color and mood that, when combined, create a complete picture. — Maggie Stiefvater
Broken Bone Quotes
Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender. — Marlene Dietrich
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. — Jessamyn West
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones. — Bible Proverbs
I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit. — Rose Kennedy
The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about. — Andy Behrman
Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you — Stephenie Meyer
Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them. — Matthew Henry
Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize - it does. — Shane Koyczan
But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter — Sally Field
The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever. — John Lyly
Broken Love Quotes
And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best. — Marilyn Monroe
Life without you is like a broken pencil, there's no point. — Tyga
Jesus knows the burdens we carry and the tears we shed, but He is the healer of broken hearts, broken dreams, and broken lives. Trust him. He never fails. — John Hagee
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. — Mary Oliver
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. — Saint Augustine
You open your heart knowing that there's a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. — Bob Marley
Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it’s the place where the music comes through. — Andrea Gibson
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. — Kenji Miyazawa
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. — Anais Nin
Broken Heart Quotes
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. — Mark Twain
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them. — Fulton J. Sheen
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men who had no right to talk. It does not require many words to speak the truth. — Chief Joseph
To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy. — Chogyam Trungpa
Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
The heart will break, but broken live on. — Lord Byron
It's the notion that there is no perfection - that there is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still there is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances. — Leonard Cohen
I long for You so much
I follow barefoot Your frozen tracks
That are high in the mountains
That I know are years old.
I long for You so much
I have even begun to travel
Where I have never been before. — Hafez
By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing. — Caroline Myss
Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe. — Andrea Gibson
Broken Open Quotes
If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders. — Andrew Harvey
When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from the good old sea blow in to bathe the wound with salt and let it sting. Let a stray dog lick it Let a bird fly in the hole and sing a simple song like a tiny bell and let it ring. — Michael Leunig
True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open. — Gangaji
What happens when people open their hearts?"... "They get better. — Haruki Murakami
Without the incarnation, Christianity isn’t even a very good story, and most sadly, it means nothing. "Be nice to one another" is not a message that can give my life meaning, assure me of love beyond brokenness, and break open the dark doors of death with the key of hope. — Michael Spencer
Before we can count we are taught to be grateful for what others do. As we are broken open by our experience, we begin to be grateful for what is, and if we live long enough and deep enough and authentically enough, gratitude becomes a way of life. — Mark Nepo
When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator. — Bonnie McFarlane
Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free. — Rumi
Broken I run to you for your arms are open wide. I am weary but I know your touch restores my life. — Kathryn Scott
When God is involved, anything can happen. Be open. Stay that way. God has a beautiful way of bringing good vibrations out of broken chords. — Charles R. Swindoll
Nico's voice was like broken glass. "I- I wasn't in love with Annabeth." "You were jealous of her," Jason said. "That's why you didn't want to be around her. Especially why you don't want to be around... him. It makes total sense. — Rick Riordan
I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass. — Christopher Columbus
Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Chains can be broken. So can silence, and fever... promises break. Hearts break. — Jodi Picoult
Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind. — Helen Clark
You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting the light, shifting into an infinite universe of flowers and rainbows and insects and planets, magical dividing cells, pictures no one else knew. — Francesca Lia Block
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added. — Jackson Pollock
Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats. — Aretha Franklin
Acting is like racing, you need the same concentration. You have to reach inside you and bring forth a lot of broken glass. That's painful. — Steve McQueen
Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, 'Hey, man, the ball game's up'. — Harry Crews
Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken. — Publilius Syrus
A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine. — Vera Nazarian
Glass ceilings have been broken, but more have to be broken. — Madeleine Albright
The Germans will crawl bollock-naked over broken glass to get low fares. — Michael O'Leary
Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all. — Burl Ives
I think we've broken a lot of barriers and kind of shattered our "glass ceiling" that was there for women. There are so many great fighters and we've proved a lot of people wrong. A lot of the times our fights are the best fights on the card. — Miesha Tate
If you'd spent your life being called "Gyles Brandreth", you would crawl across broken glass to achieve the bliss, the simplicity, the purity, the joy of simply being called "Bob". — Gyles Brandreth
And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass) or who had no glass at all, because he was at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman's eye. — Terry Pratchett
"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it." — Lewis Carroll
Room Full Of Mirrors, that's more of a mental disarrangement. This says something about broken glass used to be all in my brain. — Jimi Hendrix
Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost. — William Shakespeare
I’m packed with broken glass and memories and it all hurts. — Henry Rollins
At the tips of the feathers there is air and at their base: blood. I hold up bones; I wish like broken glass they could court light....still I try to place these pieces back together, to set them firm, to make murdered girls live again. — Alice Sebold
Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass to discourage escaladores, or climbing burglars. The gardens and fountains and other delights are hidden, as in an Arab city. — Charles Portis
Rahul Dravid is a player who would walk on broken glass if his team asks him to — Navjot Singh Sidhu
An ancient proverb summed it up when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life. — Terry Pratchett
The Iron Rule of prudence for an Istanbulite Woman: If you are as fragile as a tea glass, either find a way to never encounter burning water and hope to marry an ideal husband or get yourself laid and broken as soon as possible. Alternatively, stop being a tea-glass woman! — Elif Safak
He was the one she was doing all this for, but sometimes she missed him so much it felt like she swallowed broken glass. — Cassandra Clare
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. — Jackson Pollock
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 — T. S. Eliot
Sometimes it is like juggling with broken glass because both things are very sensitive and have to be handled with care. I can't let the career be neglected and I can't let my family and children be neglected either. — Kelly Price
One of the most challenging ways is to slow down enough to relax our heart and feel what is nearest. It could be the sun reflecting off of broken glass in an alley. It could be the shine on a crow. It could be snow on a lamp post. — Mark Nepo
When you're more mature, you do start telling the truth, in odd situations. "I'm sorry, I've broken a glass here. Is that expensive? I'll pay for it. I'm sorry." And you do that so that people in the room might go, "What a strong personality that person has. I like to have sex with people with strong personalities." — Eddie Izzard
Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach. — Joseph Hall
I took out a whole fireplace and put in broken glass and installed a burner underneath, so it looks like fire on ice. I did that in my bedroom suite. I'm pretty handy. — Cory Monteith
The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island. — Cassandra Clare
If you grow up in show business, you look beyond the looking glass. So, all of the surface facades get broken. — RuPaul
Do you know what pain is, Cammie? It’s the body’s physical response to imminent harm. It is the mind’s way of telling us to move our hand off the stove or let go of the broken glass. — Ally Carter
Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass. — Terry Pratchett
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. - — William Shakespeare
As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey? — Eddie Condon
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