Broken Quotes

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives.

My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.

… she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a Jehovah’s Witness: uninvited and tireless.

Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain.

Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)

She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd taken for granted.

The guy who broke up with me... he was exactly like you, in the beginning. Charming, and nice. They're all like you in the beginning. But I always end up like this. And I can't do it anymore.

Birds sing even when the world is filled with sadness. I don't know why people can't do the same thing.

A broken heart, too much cold beer, ocean waves and a willing man were never a good combination, no matter what the country songs said.

It's what's buried deep inside that frightens me because it's broken, like a shattered mirror.

One of the symptoms of having a broken-heart is the fact that even ghosts will give up on the hope of scaring you as you have already lived through your worst fear.

I won't let that night ruin you forever." But it did, it broke me into a million pieces and blew them away in the wind, like crumbled leaves.

My heart is ripped open, shredded, leaking blood. I can't let him leave like this. We've been through to much to turn into strangers.

Dark times call for dark choices. Choose me.

Two days after my dad's funeral, my mom went on a mission. I never understood it until then--that sometimes a spy doesn't need a cover so much as she needs a shield.

When someone who's starved of love is shown something that looks like sincere affection, is it any wonder that she jumps at it and clings to it?

When you don't know what to do, go back to the places, the people and the promises where you know you last heard God.

Even things that aren't broken can be fixed.

Of course I’m shielding her, you broken feather!

Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart.

She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.

My heart sobbed a lament that was hard to ignore.

Magnus did not take such suffering lightly, but even mortals did not die of broken hearts. No matter how cruel Grace had been, he told himself, James would heal. Even though he was a Herondale.

I hated myself for needing him at such times, for craving his strength whenever I felt upset.

True love was beyond the bars, but a facsimile of it came with no suffering at all.

For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.

It's impossible to walk a block in Miami, in Los Angeles, San Antonio without running into someone who is being deeply impacted by a broken legal immigration system.

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.

Infidelity is a deal breaker for me. I've broken up with people over it. You can't do monogamy 90 percent of the time.

Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. "I'm coming back some day," they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small to fit anymore.

Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm.

Some of you guys must have real jobs - office jobs. Anybody? By a show of broken spirits.

He was gone, and she was broken hearted, that was all that mattered.

You know she's going to leave my broken heart behind her...

They say that time heals a broken heart, but time has stood still since we've been apart.

There is no pain quite like that of a broken heart. But a broken heart is an open heart. When we allow ourselves to be broken, a gentle transformation takes place.

Unto a broken heart No other one may go Without the high prerogative Itself hath suffered too.

The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.

Lyall understood a broken heart, but it could not be allowed to rumple perfectly good shirtwaists.

You will recover [from a broken heart] by beginning to identify the difference between frightened and loving parts of your personality.

Whenever there's the experience of a broken heart, there's the experience of fear.

It's the nature of hearts to break. It's in their job description. When a heart is doing what it's supposed to be doing, it holds nothing back. And sometimes it gets broken.

A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed.

I remember my boyfriend and I had just broken up, and I was like 'I don't care how much it costs, I'm getting my hair bleached!' That's really when everything changed.

I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling.

The harder they hit, the more encouraged I get.

Most journalists are broken down alcoholics.

She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

The only thing that preoccupies me is that France has broken down, and we need to start up the engine again - all the way. But not so as to run into a wall.