Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together. — Unknown
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together. — Marilyn Monroe
I Just Got So Emo That I Just Fell Apart!! — Gerard Way
I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. — Erin Morgenstern
My heart shattered. My world shattered — Richelle Mead
We're changing our ways, taking different roads, and love will tear us apart again. — Ian Curtis
The one that embraces a lot cannot keep it together — Spanish Proverbs
It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart. — Suzanne Collins
I am a collection of dismantled almosts. — Anne Sexton
Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together — Colleen Hoover
When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart. — William Gibson
When our world falls apart and we have no more faces to wear - that’s when it’s beautiful, and that’s when we change. — Jon Foreman
Short Falling Apart Quotes
There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts. — Neil Gaiman
A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended. — Ian McEwan
The one that embraces a lot, can’t keep it together. — Spanish Proverbs
loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away. — Milan Kundera
Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew. — Lauren DeStefano
There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them. — Salman Rushdie
When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death. — Dennis Quaid
What breaks in a moment may take years to mend. — Swedish Proverbs
Top 10 Falling Apart Quotes
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? — Ernest Hemingway
Everything is falling together perfectly, even though it looks as if some things are falling apart. Trust in the process you are now experiencing. — Neale Donald Walsch
The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them. — Chinua Achebe
Objectively, the world is improving. To the elites, it’s falling apart as their long-lived institutions are flattened by the Internet. — Naval Ravikant
A group will never admit, We made a mistake, because a group that tries to change its mind falls apart. — Naval Ravikant
You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself. — Marilyn Monroe
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart. — Lars von Trier
Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength. — Chris Bradford
Falling Apart Image Quotes
One small crack does not mean you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn't fall apart.
Life Falling Apart Quotes
When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer. When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns. — Ajahn Brahm
As cruel as life might be at times, if you throw in the towel, which is what everyone will expect, then nothing good will happen and your life will fall apart. Be better than that! — Bill Courtney
Let the sun stop burning,
Let them tell me love's not worth going through.
If it all falls apart,
I will know deep in my heart,
The only dream that mattered had come true
...In this life I was loved by you. — Bette Midler
Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin.
There's always a race against time. I don't think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? One's body starts to fall apart. — Gloria Grahame
Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept. — Lucille Clifton
I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work. — Lee Iacocca
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common. — Sam Shepard
No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air. — Charles Eisenstein
Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right. — Marilyn Monroe
I believe that everything happens for a reason. — Marilyn Monroe
World Falling Apart Quotes
When your world falls apart and you're left with just yourself, you're forced to discover who you are without all the beliefs, expectations, views, & self-image provided by some teacher or system. The calculating mind gives way to the intuitive mind, Knowing without Thinking. — Gabrielle Roth
Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart. — Haruki Murakami
The world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That cannot be,” said Machi. “You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies. — Chinua Achebe
One small crack does not mean you are broken, it means you were put to the test and you didn't fall apart.
Just because your world is falling apart doesn't mean you have to fall apart. When everything seems crazy, you be calm. Don't let the outer chaos you are facing get inside of you. — Bryant H. McGill
You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things fall apart, letting the world come as it is - working with it rather than struggling against it. You're the only one who knows. — Pema Chodron
No matter how your world falls apart-and honey, that's what happens: we all build ourselves a world, and then it falls apart-but no matter how that happens, you still have the kind heart you've had since you were a child, and that's all that really counts. — Kate Bornstein
One small crack does not mean you are broken, it means that you were put to test and you didn't fall apart.
There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others. — Chinua Achebe
I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear. — Tan Le
It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself. — Benjamin Franklin
Albania in 1994 was the strangest place I've ever seen. It was like walking into the looking glass: falling apart, paranoid people, anarchy, no one farming, full of thieves. It was beyond any Third World country. They were living in their own private nightmare. — Paul Theroux
Everything Is Falling Apart Quotes
Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges. — Margaret J. Wheatley
Pope Francis insists that mercy is at the very top of the Christian hierarchy of great truths, and everything falls apart whenever mercy is displaced by anything else. — Richard Rohr
I’ve got this amazing relationship with God that is better than life, itself, so marvelous, so wonderful that everything else can fall apart and I’m okay. — Francis Chan
Never be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along.
Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart. — Chuck Palahniuk
Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature. — Ben Vereen
Anyone can show exceptional leadership ability in easy times. When all's going to plan, anyone can be inspirational/excellent/innovative and strong. The real question is how do you show up when everything's falling apart? — Robin S. Sharma
One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that our were put to the test and you didn't fall apart ~Linda Poindexter
You have to move forward. It's constantly changing. Everything changes and everything falls apart. You have to be nimble and on your toes and accessible to it all. Not everyone is on board with this. — Pierce Brosnan
I cannot function if there is a physical mess around me. If everything is falling apart, I go on a cleaning frenzy. — Gwyneth Paltrow
I've always wanted to make a big apocalypse movie. I love 28 Weeks Later, I think it's great but Cell is totally different. It's about people's dependence on technology, the collapse of society and watching everything fall apart. That's something I've always wanted to do, which I believe it can! — Eli Roth
Sometimes when everything has totally apart, the meaningless preoccupations that so often dominate our lives simply fall away. And what is left is who we really are, and who we really are is compassionate and intelligent and wise. — Marianne Williamson
Family Falling Apart Quotes
I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack. — Jodi Picoult
If you take care of the woman in the family, the whole family prospers. But when the mother falters, the family falls apart. — Nicole Kidman
I don't think our family is falling apart and getting destroyed. I just think it's rearranging itself in the way God meant it to be because it wasn't working how it was. — Brooke Hogan
In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine. — Stephen Cole Kleene
A society that is not founded on morality falls apart and becomes easy prey to puritan cults such as Islam that on the surface, promote family values and morality. — Ali Sina
Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart. — Ezra Taft Benson
Things Fall Apart Okonkwo Quotes
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart. — Chinua Achebe
You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies. — Chinua Achebe
Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten. — Chinua Achebe
Living fire begets cold, impotent ash. — Chinua Achebe
No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man. — Chinua Achebe
An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb — Chinua Achebe
When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk — Chinua Achebe
We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret
perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break. — Chinua Achebe
If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know. — Chinua Achebe
Everything Falls Apart Quotes
Before something great happens, everything falls apart. Just hold on long enough to get through the smoke screen. — Keith Sweat
At Liverpool, I had almost everything but titles. I felt like a king, but the team was falling apart. — Fernando Torres
Everything that comes together falls apart. — John Green
I've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record - everything stinks - and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart. — John Madden
All my life, I have been in love with the sky. Even when everything was falling apart around me, the sky was always there for me. — Yoko Ono
You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway. — David Levithan
...there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children who are just pillars of ash, that fall apart when you touch them..." ~ Thomas Builds-the-Fire (played by Evan Adams) in Alexie's "Smoke Signals — Sherman Alexie
I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I'd get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I'd back up and get it together again. — Kathy Mattea
Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake. — Brian Boitano
When everything seems to fall apart..that's when everything new you prayed for has room to enter your life. — Doreen Virtue
Things Fall Apart Important Quotes
Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found. — Pema Chodron
When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. We might realize that this is a very vulnerable and tender place, and that tenderness can go either way. We can shut down and feel resentful or we can touch in on that throbbing quality. (9) — Pema Chodron
Beware Okonkwo!" she warned. "Beware of exchanging words with Agbala. Does a man speak when a god speaks? Beware! — Chinua Achebe
A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors. — Chinua Achebe
When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. — Pema Chodron
Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break. — Chinua Achebe
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings. — Chinua Achebe
We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true. — Chinua Achebe
Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings. — Chinua Achebe
At the most one could say that his chi or ... personal god was good. But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also. Okonkwo said yes very strongly; so his chi agreed. — Chinua Achebe
Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion of any rational order of things. Reign of matter, of gold, of machine, of number, it no longer possesses breath, or liberty, or light. — Julius Evola
I will not stop. I will not slow down. I will not pull over to ask for directions. I will build the road that takes me where I want to be and I will drive, drive, drive. I will drive until the vehicle around me breaks down, falls apart and tumbles into useless debris... and then I will walk. — Shane Koyczan
A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so. — Chinua Achebe
How can you know when you are trusting in man rather than in God? If you fall apart when someone else lets you down, or if the actions of others affect your walk with God, then you know you are leaning on the arm of flesh! — David Wilkerson
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. — Marilyn Monroe
Ubuntu is not a biblical concept but an ancient African one. Nevertheless it falls back on one simple thing: that humans have been created for togetherness, and what drives us apart is greed, lust for power, and a sense of exclusion, but those are aberrations. — Allan Boesak
A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick. — Brene Brown
Millions are unemployed and our roads are falling apart. If we can spend $6 trillion sending people to war, we can spend $1 trillion to put Americans to work fixing our nation's crumbling infrastructure. Let's rebuild America and create jobs. — Bernie Sanders
There will always be some who, for whatever reason, find themselves dependent on the charity of others. But when half the population is along for the ride, the system becomes dangerously out of balance. Things fall apart. — Tucker Carlson
Try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong. While you see it your way, there's a chance that we might fall apart before too long. We can work it out. W e can work it out. — John Lennon
All the most powerful emotions come from chaos -fear,anger,love- especially love. Love is chaos itself. Think about it! Love makes no sense. It shakes you up and spins you around. And then, eventually , it falls apart. — Kirsten Miller
A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t. — Charles Spurgeon
You have to continue to believe in yourself, know your value and continue to work on honing your skills. I was rejected by everyone but here I sit. So you have to stay in the game, you can't just fall apart. Hopefully those challenges will make you stronger, it did for me. — Debbie Allen
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. — W.B. Yeats
The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and never written, or talked about (the ego eventually falls apart like a soaked sponge), but simply written; it's a dreadful, awful fact that writing is like any other work. — Janet Frame
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