Shattered Quotes

These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of America's resolve.

Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.

I shattered that memory by going back there. Without realizing it until it was too late, I replaced that memory with the emptiness of that day.

I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.

The last batter to hit, blast shattered your hip, Smash any splitter or fastball-that'll be it.

If you send your work to the magazines, you may be in for a shock. You may get a rejection note. The worst kind. A printed form. And probably you will be shattered. Shattered.

Sundown. The distressed sloop, its mainmast shattered by lightning, its sails ripped by the winds of the open sea, drifted into the small, quiet beach of a private island in the Lesser Antilles

Breaking a dream board is almost like breaking up with your girlfriend. You are super shattered at first. But then once you get another dream board, it's all good.

I love 'Shattered Glass.' It's one of my favorite movies. I think it's just brilliant.

Shattered dreams, worthless years, here I am encased in a hollow shell. Life began, then was done, now I stare into a cold and empty well.

I want to feel deeply, and whenever I am brokenhearted I emerge more compassionate. I think I allow myself to be brokenhearted more easily, knowing I won't be irrevocably shattered [p. 59]

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.

I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy.

Everyone always says that love was enough. It wasn't. Not when your soul has been shattered.

A shattered illusion is a sorrowful experience; but a life without illusion is a sorrowful life

Mental stamina - determination - is a quality of the mind shattered by fatigue.But physical stamina - endurance - is built upon fatigue.

When illusions are shattered by truth, talent is set free.

It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.

When your world has shattered, ain't nothing else matters. It ain't over, it's only love and that's all.

No, none of us seem so very real. We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other. Any real truth, any precious fact will always be lost in a mountain of shattered make-believe.

There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.

I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don’t want to.

Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces.

If the restoration did anything it shattered the age-old myth that God has stopped talking to his children.

Your heart will be shattered by sorrow If you force it to live In tomorrow's ephemeral imagination-world Instead of in today's eternal Reality-Now.

It is the mind that is woven, the mind that was jerked And tufted in straggling thunder and shattered sun.

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

If your faith in reality is based on the belief that time moves in one direction only, the foundation of your faith will be shattered by the experience of the future.

Why did everyone think I needed a new boyfriend? I didn't need a new boyfriend. I'd had enough of boyfriends to last a lifetime. The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart.

Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.

Jonas. Their rock. Shattered into so many shards. Holding himself together through the sheer force of will.

I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.

I remember on 'JAG,' Joe Jackson punched Stephen Culp and shattered his nose.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.[only if the past was better...if it was worse then you feel good that life is getting better]

I heard how people sounded when their dreams were shattered, when their lives were turned into a waking nightmare.

But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.

We kissed for about the thousandth time, No promises, no demands, Just solid rebuilding of shattered trust.

Goodbye, you who are, for me, the postmarks again of shattered towns--Xenia, Burnt Cabins, Hornell-- their loneliness given away in poems, only their solitude kept.

But it is never over; nothing ends until we want it to. Look, in shattered midnights, On black ice under silver trees, We are still dancing, dancing.

Take what the old-church found in Mithra's tomb, candle and script and bell, take what the new-church spat upon and broke and shattered.

My dream had been shattered, but then re-created, fashioned into something with more meaning and becoming more precious.

The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea, Silent and few, are drifting over me.

They were angry, I thought. Horrified. These teenagers, with their hormones, making out beneath a video broadcasting the shattered voice of a former father.

bent like the branches of a tree broken like the pieces of my heart cracked like the seventeenth moon shattered like the glass in the window the day we met

....both had learned that everything could change in an instant, and that the heartfelt vows of people in love were fragile words that, once shattered, could cut so deeply you'd bleed forever.

All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague; but that I have allthe plagues of old age, and of a shattered carcase.

He saved the world, but he shattered mine.

Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered

Overall his period in office can only be characterised as a decade of missed opportunities in which the hopes of the British people for a new kind of politics were shattered [on Tony Blair]

There weren’t any fairy tales in the streets around me. If there was ever a Cinderella, her glass slippers shattered under her weight and she limped home bleeding from the ball.