Broken Quotes

We ask the education system to expiate the sins of the rest of the society and then condemn it as hopelessly broken when it doesn't prove up to the task.

It was the month of May and there was warm sunshine dripping through the holes between the clouds, like the sky was a broken blue bowl and a child was trying to keep honey in it.

Funny the way it is, not right or wrong, somebody's heart is broken, and it becomes your favorite song.

With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time...like me!

Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.

If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me. Don't judge or question. You are broken now, but faith can heal you. Just do everything I tell you to do.

Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.

I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people.

And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

Reason cannot break out of its own loop.

We're not godly because we're perfect. We're godly because we're perfectly broken.

Life is true to form, records are meant to be broken

The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.

People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.

I hate to say it because I feel like it might be a jinx, but yes - knock on wood - I have never broken a bone.

When people can't use you, they ridicule what you represent. I was lucky that I understood that, because when one does not understand that, it is very easy to be broken and to be subdued.

Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.

My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. Listing what body parts he has broken

What are you going to do?,' he asked me. Me? Nothing. Something has just been broken inside me; you yourself will never be able to repair it.

Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.

What's broken can always be fixed What's fixed will always be broken

As painful as this thing has been I just can't be with no one else. See I know what we've got to do. You let go, and I'll let go too. 'Cause no one's hurt me more than you And no one ever will.

I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.

Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.

The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.

Mary prays the rosary for my broken mind.

Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken the spell of 'you can't.'

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!

When you leave, weary of me, without a word, I shall gently let you go.

My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise.

I was bruised, but I wasn’t broken.

Let your broken heart create an open heart

There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken.

‎"She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.

I cannot tell her I have been moping over a broken heart when I have worked so hard to convince her I have no heart at all.

Even a broken tree can bear fruit

The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.

You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken - rather than being careful with them in the first place.

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.

I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up.

Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic.

Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.

Hell's afloat in lover's tears.

We fit, you and I,” he whispered looking into that haunting gaze. “Two broken pieces making a whole.

Well thank you, me old gobbler,' said Mr. Gum handing over some money that Billy William would later discover to be made out of lies and broken promises.

So many people are in comedy because of difficult mothers or broken homes.

I think people will be surprised at how fast they go next year. I do think world records will get broken next year.

Sometimes we get our hearts broken, only to have the right person come along to mend them.

I guess I am attracted to older women. I'm looking for a 40-something who has had her heart broken two or three hundred times. She's going to be fun!

Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.