Broke Quotes - Page 18

• Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Break Up, Breakup

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 19, 2014

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• In 1945, peace broke out. It was the end of the Joke. Joke warfare was banned at a special session of the Geneva Convention, and in 1950 the last remaining copy of the joke was laid to rest here in the Berkshire countryside, never to be told again.

  Graham Chapman

  Special, Warfare, Lasts

  "Monty Python's Flying Circus". TV Series, 1969 - 1974.

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• MUSIC I heard with you was more than music, And bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate, All that was once so beautiful is dead. Your hands once touched this table and this silver,And I have seen your fingers hold this glass. These things do not remember you, beloved: And yet your touch upon them will not pass. For it was in my heart you moved among them,And blessed them with your hands and with your eyes.And in my heart they will remember always: They knew you once, O beautiful and wise!

  Conrad Aiken

  Beautiful, Wise, Blessed

  Conrad Potter Aiken, “Discordants”

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• I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Boys, Awful, Broke Up

  Karen Joy Fowler (2005). “The Jane Austen Book Club”, p.69, Penguin

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• I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married a fat man and the other stayed here.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Men, Self, Trying

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• But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that limited their fellows and returned such boons as any man with equal faith and courage might have found.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Hero, Past

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.274, New World Library

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• Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Smile, Break Up

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• Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.

  Jane Yolen

  Heart, Lasts, Goddess

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• My heart broke all over again. I wanted my life back, my mama, but I knew I would never have that. The child I had been was gone with the child she had been. We were new people, and we didn't know each other anymore. I shook my head desperately.

  Dorothy Allison

  Children, Heart, People

  Dorothy Allison (2005). “Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel”, p.280, Penguin

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• I took a puff of the wrong cigarette at a fraternity dance once, and the cops had to get me, y'know. I broke two teeth trying to give a hickie to the Statue of Liberty.

  Woody Allen

  Two, Giving, Trying

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• I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.

  Janet Fitch

  Turtles, Sea, Floating

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then, when I broke out of the box, the way a baby chick escapes an egg, is it strange that I had the shape of a cross? Have you ever noticed that chickens are roughly egg-shaped?

  John Steinbeck

  Baby, Eggs, Shapes

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.108, Penguin

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• And there stood Basta with his foot already on another dead body, smiling. Why not? He had hit his target, and it was the target he had been aiming for all along: Dustfinger’s heart, his stupid heart. It broke in two as he held Farid in his arms, it simply broke in two, although he had taken such good care of it all these years.

  Cornelia Funke

  Stupid, Taken, Heart

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• I woke with a terrible headache and wobbled around 'till I fell out the window." "You what?" "Fell out the window. That one over there." She [Edwina] gestured to the curtain behind her. "I broke my back. My spine is all wobbly now, but it doesn't hurt.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Hurt, Window, Headache

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• After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a curious twist of their senses, as if they had tasted a string quartet, or been, for a moment, deafened by the sight of colour blue.

  Susanna Clarke

  Rain, Sight, Blue

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.133, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If I had a dime for everytime that I was wrong, I'd be broke.

  Stephen Colbert

  Dimes, Ifs

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• I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, My Boyfriend, Upset

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• Harry looked around; there was Ginny running toward him; she had a hard blazing look in her face as she threw her arms around him. And without thinking, without planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty people were watching, Harry kissed her. After several long moments, or it might have been half an hour-or possibly several sunlit days- they broke apart.

  J. K. Rowling

  Running, Thinking, Worry

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• I was driving my car, I crashed and broke my spine. So yes there are things worse in life than never being someone's sweetie.

  Steven Morrissey

  Car, Driving, Spine

  Song: "That's How People Grow Up", 2009.

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• One of the cheapest commodities in the world is unfulfilled genius. All of us want to be known as a unique individual, the one who broke out of the pack. So, you offer yourself up as a sacrifice and what you’re afraid of is losing and being thrown back into the pack. One question taunts you. Do you want to have, or do you want to be?

  Leon Uris

  Sacrifice, Unique, Genius

  Leon Uris (1989). “Mitla Pass”, Bantam

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• I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.

  Ann Brashares

  Writing, Character, Comedy

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• Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory.

  James Joyce

  Stars, Memories, Fire

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• When someone tells you they’ve just bought a house, they might as well tell you they no longer have a personality. You can immediately assume so many things: that they’re locked into jobs they hate; that they’re broke; that they spend every night watching videos; that they’re fifteen pounds overweight; that they no longer listen to new ideas. It’s profoundly depressing.

  Douglas Coupland

  Depressing, Jobs, Hate

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• Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed, Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles.

  Homer

  Dog, Moving, Loss

  Homer (2002). “The Iliad”, Spark Notes

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• Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.

  Emily Bronte

  Home, Heart, Angel

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.425, Penguin

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