A broken soul doesn’t invest in boundaries because the world has crossed them, without mercy. — Shannon Alder
The heart may be broken, and the soul remain unshaken. — Napoleon Bonaparte
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. — John Steinbeck
My brain's gone, my soul's worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein operated on. — Eminem
My soul is an empty carousel at sunset. — Pablo Neruda
Having a soul, they say, is like taking sadness and turning it into something beautiful. — Florence Welch
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse. — Epictetus
Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace. — Aberjhani
My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity. — Saint Augustine
I see the invisible spirits, where demons still find it livable. I need a hug to hold my soul inside my body. — Lisa Lopes
You've got to admit you're broken before you can be made whole. — LeCrae
This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul. — Sayings
Broke with nothing to live for and damn ready to die young. I'm the shadow behind the gun, look what I've become. — Ja Rule
In this world, you've a soul for a compass and a heart for a pair of wings. — Mary Chapin Carpenter
Short Broken Soul Quotes
Better a broken heart than a hardened one. — Dalia Mogahed
Great souls endure in silence. — Friedrich von Schiller
In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude. — Sadegh Hedayat
The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears. — American Indian Proverbs
The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad. — Dennis Hopper
Broken Soul Image Quotes
Sleep doesn't help if it's your soul that's tired.
Heart Broken Soul Quotes
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 soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky — William P. Young
Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break
And peace of pardon win!
How else may man make straight his plan
And cleanse his soul from Sin?
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in? — Oscar Wilde
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul. — Samuel Chadwick
Bread of the world, in mercy broken,
Wine of the soul, in mercy shed,
By whom the words of life were spoken,
And in whose death our sins are dead:
Look on the heart by sorrow broken,
Look on the tears by sinners shed;
And be Thy feast to us the token
That by Thy grace our souls are fed. — Reginald Heber
Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted. — Margaret Atwood
Some souls just understand each other upon meeting.
But on one man's soul it hath broken, / A light that doth not depart; / And his look, or a word he hath spoken, / Wrought flame in another man's heart. — Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed. — Bette Midler
You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence. — Rumi
And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit. — Anne Rice
Darkness Broken Soul Quotes
I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute! — Frederick Douglass
The dark in soul see in the universe their own shadow; the shattered spirit can only reflect external beauty in form as untrue and broken as itself. — Thomas Binney
If you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the dark night of the soul, your faith may not have the sustaining power to carry you through to the end of the journey. — Rufus Jones
It's better to cry than to be angry; because anger hurts others, while tears flow silently through the soul and cleanses the heart.
My soul is a dark ploughed field In the cold rain; My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain. — Sara Teasdale
War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul. — Seneca
Broken Spirit Quotes
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
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
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.
They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken. — Bobby Sands
When your spirit is heavy, when your heart is broken, when your burdens seem unbearable - trust Him. Look to Him. — Anne Graham Lotz
If you are lonely, please know you can find comfort. If you are discouraged, please know you can find hope. If you are poor in spirit, please know you can be strengthened. If you feel you are broken, please know you can be mended. — Jeffrey R. Holland
Beauty isn't about having a pretty face. It's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart and a pretty soul.
A church without the broken is a broken church. — Ed Stetzer
God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit. He will only plant that seed where the conviction of his spirit has brought brokenness, where the soil has been watered with the tears of repentance as well as the tears of joy. — Alan Redpath
The line of communication between God and man is always open unless broken by man himself. We are, as it were, always in the presence of our Father in Heaven. Through His Holy Spirit, God is with us always and everywhere. — John Andreas Widtsoe
Sad Soul Quotes
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts. — Paramahansa Yogananda
On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna). She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case. . . . — Mother Teresa
Sad soul, take comfort, nor forget
That sunrise never failed us yet. — Celia Thaxter
Whatever is good for you soul, do that.
One cannot help asking sadly, why is love of gold more potent than love of souls? The number of men mining and prospecting for gold in Shantung is more than double the number of men representing Southern Baptists! What a lesson for Southern Baptists to ponder! — Lottie Moon
May God have mercy on my soul for the deaths on my name and for the treachery I committed. Betrayal of God and country, what a sad and horrible thing it is. — E. Howard Hunt
When hints of sadness creep into our soul, we must not flee into happy or distracting thoughts. Pondering the sadness until it becomes overwhelming can lead us to deep change in the direction of our being from self-preservation to grateful worship. — Larry Crabb
Just as the water reflects the stars and the moon, the body reflects the mind and soul.
I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; Yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge. — Og Mandino
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. — Lord Chesterfield
Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them. — Gregory David Roberts
Leaving a role is a terrible sadness. The last day of the shooting is surreal. Your soul, your body and your mind are not ready at all to see the end of this experience. In the following months after a film shoot, one feels a deep sense of void. — Daniel Day-Lewis
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
Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.
Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. — John Steinbeck
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
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
If we are irritated, by every rub, how will we be polished?
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
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
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
Broken Man Quotes
What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept? Not one. — Sitting Bull
Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue. — Eugene O'Neill
So plant your own gardens and decorate your soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
They will never count me among the broken men. — George Jackson
Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope. — Bruce Lee
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. — John Ruskin
God is looking for broken men who have judged themselves in the light of the cross of Christ. When He wants anything done, He takes up men who have come to the end of themselves, whose confidence is not in themselves, but in God. — Henry Allen Ironside
Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times. — Fulton J. Sheen
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
I turn to right and left, in all the earth I see no signs of justice, sense or worth: A man does evil deeds, and all his days Are filled with luck and universal praise; Another's good in all he does - he dies A wretched, broken man whom all despise. — Abolqasem Ferdowsi
Broken Heart Quotes
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. — Mark Twain
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
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
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
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 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
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
My Soul Quotes
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?' — Sigmund Freud
Look inside my soul and you can find gold and maybe get rich. Look inside of your soul and you can find out it never exists. — Kendrick Lamar
She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through. — Virginia Woolf
Come hell or high water you will never take me back to the place I was before. I have been through too much to let life whoop me again. My faith is stronger than it's ever been, my mind is more tenacious than it's ever been, my soul is more absolute. — T. D. Jakes
Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul. — Charles Bukowski
I LOVE my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind.
Just in case...
HEART might stop. MIND can forget.
I Love them with my Soul.
SOUL never stops or forgets. — Rumi
I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible not to love you. I love you without question, without calculation, without reason good or bad, faithfully, with all my heart and soul, and every faculty. — Juliette Drouet
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. — Judy Garland
Beautiful Soul Quotes
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. — Kate Chopin
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. — Kahlil Gibran
It is the sky that makes the earth so lovely at sunrise, and so splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth the crystal-like ether, in the other the liquid gold. — Thomas Cole
Beauty isn't about having a pretty face it's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul. — Unknown Author
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. — C. S. Lewis
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. — Jawaharlal Nehru
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years. — Audrey Hepburn
If you want to give birth to your true self, you are going to have to dig deep down into that body of yours and let your soul howl. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and trust that if you turn off your head, your feet will take you where you need to go. — Gabrielle Roth
Three things differentiate living from the soul verses living from the ego only: the ability to sense and learn new ways, the tenacity to ride a rough road, and the patience to learn deep love over time. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is. — Blaise Pascal
Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs. Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul. — Waylon Jennings
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness. — Rodney Dangerfield
True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. — Audrey Hepburn
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. — Ingmar Bergman
Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. — Zora Neale Hurston
It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were profoundly deep; but that over all, rocks, wood, and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its inmost depths. — Thomas Cole
Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. when you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul. — Rachel Naomi Remen
And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. — Max Ehrmann
There is a light within every soul; it only needs the clouds that overshadow it to be broken for it to beam forth. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. — Max Ehrmann
The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic. — Willa Cather
Our suffering is often the deep soul groaning for the purposes of God in and through us. Mission cannot be fulfilled without love, and we cannot love without groaning and suffering over the brokenness in others' lives. As a result, we cannot accomplish our mission without suffering. — Gregory Beale
There are some people—people the universe seems to have singled out for special destinies. Special favors and special torments. God knows we're all drawn toward what's beautiful and broken; I have been, but some people cannot be fixed. Or if they can be; its only by love and sacrifice so great that it destroys the giver. — Cassandra Clare
Personally, I'd have welcomed a dementor attack. A deadly struggle for my soul would have broken the monotony nicely. — J. K. Rowling
If broken lives and souls are to be healed, it must begin with teaching the practice of the presence... To abide in the presence of the Lord is to begin to hear Him. To follow through on that hearing is to find healing, self-acceptance, and growth into psychological and spiritual balance and maturity. — Leanne Payne
Beautiful mind, tortured soul. I do have to figure out why I am attracted to these broken birds. — Katy Perry
The human emotional system can be broken down into roughly two elements:
fear and love.
Love is of the soul.
Fear is of the personality. — Gary Zukav
Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God. — Frederick Buechner
Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n. — Alexander Pope
Excess of trouble may, for a time, distract and overwhelm the soul. Our Lord himself seems to have experienced somewhat of this. Our prayers, perhaps, are never more acceptable, than when they are offered in broken accents, in sighs, and groans. — Charles Simeon
That we've broken their statues, that we've driven them out of their temples, doesn't mean at all that the gods are dead. O land of Ionia, they're still in love with you, their souls still keep your memory. — C.P. Cavafy
Dogs with broken legs are shot; men with broken souls write through the night. — Kenneth Patchen
Generally speaking we don't want to hear from the soul. We want it to just do its job. Unfortunately, in a broken world, it also is broken, and we're going to hear from it because many of the ordinary miseries and extraordinary glories of human life are expressions of the state of the soul. — Dallas Willard
A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginning and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree. — Hermann Hesse
Would you love a man of a broken shell after the passing of a women's soul? — Brian Perkins
Souls in heathen darkness lying, where no light has broken through, souls that Jesus bought by dying, whom his soul in travail knew.... Haste, o haste and spread the tidings, let no shore be left untrod, no lost brother's bitter chidings haunt us from the further sod; tell the heathen all the precious truths of God. — Cecil Frances Alexander
Your reason and your passion are your rudder and sails of your seafaring soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. — Kahlil Gibran
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character. — Cal Thomas
Jesus has redeemed not only our souls, but our bodies. When the Lord shall deliver His captive people out of the land of the enemy He will not leave a bone of one of them in the adversary's power. The dominion of death shall be utterly broken. — Charles Spurgeon
Christ's sacrifice stands in glorious proportions with the work to be done. Nothing else or less would suffice. It is a work supernatural, transacted in the plane of nature; and what but such a work could restore the broken order of the soul under evil? — Horace Bushnell
Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke. — Joyce Meyer
O lovely chance, what can I doTo give my gratefulness to you?You rise between myself and meWith a wise persistency;I would have broken body and soul,But by your grace, still I am whole. — Sara Teasdale
My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?-weep now or nevermore! — Edgar Allan Poe
The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for, until the cord be broken the bird cannot fly. — Saint John of the Cross
But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to make for themselves a shape distinct from others, is broken, and there is left of all these wrinkles and roughnesses a central oyster of perceptiveness, an enormous eye. How beautiful a street is in winter! — Virginia Woolf
The twin guardian angels whose eyes and hands and wings had focused protective attention on the souls that lay there no longer faced each other. They stared blindly into a random middle distance. The scroll they held between them proclaiming eternal resurrection was broken in two. — Claire Morgan
My two souls, the socially conscious one and the lighthearted one, are always in my movies because they find a perfect habitat in my grotesque style, which combines tragedy and humor, irony and sarcasm, comedy and drama. I also feel that rules are made to be broken, especially in art! I prefer creative disorder to strict rules. — Lina Wertmuller
It wouldn't bring her back. I know. Trust me, I do. And I would have done far worse, he says, if I'd thought there was a way to bring Regina back. I would have traded places. I would have sold souls. I would have torn this world apart. I would have done anything, broken any rule, just to bring her back. — V. E. Schwab
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