Shattered Quotes

• I’m really cracking. No, I’m beyond cracking. I’m shattered. I’m lost. I’m fragmented.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Lost, Fragmented

  Beatrice Sparks (1990). “Jay's Journal”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Thomas Binney

  Dark, Broken, Soul

  Thomas Binney (1853). “Is it Possible to Make the Best of Both Worlds?: A Book for Young Men”, p.129

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

  Elizabeth Smart

  Soul, Speak, Difficult

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• Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

  Helen Keller

  Softball, Faith, Inspiration

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.60, Matthew Gordon

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• The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Eye, Mirrors, Sorrow

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.136, Wordsworth Editions

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• Don’t despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes that’s how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered first.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Beautiful, Heart, Despair

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• It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Dream, Years, Mold

  Mary E. Pearson (2014). “The Kiss of Deception”, p.279, Macmillan

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• Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

  Douglas Horton

  Happiness, Past, Inner Peace

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• I felt dull and flat and full of shattered visions.

  Sylvia Plath

  Vision, Dull, Flats

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.33, Hamilton Books

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  Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Men, Rocks, Young Friends

  "Fictional character: Edmond Dantès". "The Count of Monte Cristo", 2002.

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• We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

  Anais Nin

  Art, Philosophy, Self

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

  Djuna Barnes

  Surface, Whole, Objects

  Djuna Barnes, Rebecca Loncraine (2003). “The Book of Repulsive Women and Other Poems”, p.11, Psychology Press

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  I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

  Leonard Cohen

  Sorrow, Despair, Sides

  Song: Heart With No Companion, Album: Various Positions, 1984

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• Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly.

  Colleen Hoover

  Heart, Broken, Promise

  Renee Carlino, Abbi Glines, Colleen Hoover, Jamie McGuire, Gail McHugh (2014). “Just A Touch: The Atria Indie Author 2014 Sampler”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  People, Pieces, Bits

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• Sometimes I think maybe they were right all along, the people on the other side in Zombieland. Maybe it would be better if we didn't love. If we didn't lose either. If we didn't get our hearts stomped on, shattered: if we didn't have to patch and repatch until we're like Frankenstein monsters, all sewn together and bound up by who knows what. If we could just float along, like snow. But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosions of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

  Lauren Oliver

  Summer, Flower, Sunset

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• Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Player, Games, Chess Game

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

  Henry Rollins

  Heart, Broken, Want

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• When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead - When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Lying, Clouds, Light

  'Lines: When the lamp'

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

  Lian Hearn

  Talent, Illusion

  Lian Hearn (2005). “Across the Nightingale Floor: Journey to Inuyama. episode 2”, Puffin

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• 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.

  Stevie Wonder

  Dream, Sadness, Years

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• When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

  Dennis Quaid

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

  "Quaid: Split From Ryan Was 'Like Death'". W Magazine Interview, abcnews.go.com. July 19, 2001.

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• Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered.

  Carl Jung

  Fall, Unity, Pieces

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.186, North Atlantic Books

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

  Jose Narosky

  Illusion, Sorrowful

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• The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief or grief has drained me clean; Still it seems a pity No one saw,—it must have been Very pretty.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Grief, Rose, Tree

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2014). “Millay: Poems”, p.45, Everyman's Library

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