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• Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.

  Amy Ephron

  Calm, Surface, Has Beens

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• Sad, that lives can be shattered, into so many pieces that they can never be put back together, the the relentless force of love. Irreparable.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Together, Pieces, Relentless

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• It's [a miscarriage] all very thief-in-the-night. No one really knows what to say. You go into the emergency room, you think you're going to be a mum and you walk out empty. It's all neat and tidy, there's this potential being in your life and you're empty - all cleaned up and put back together, but completely shattered.

  Tori Amos

  Miscarriage, Night, Thinking

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• It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Sea, Voice, Mad

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• I am only about half alive - a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However - so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Philosophy, Suicidal, Bored

  Letter to Alfred Galpin (27 May 1918), in "Letters to Alfred Galpin" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 18), 2003.

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• We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body. Many times in our lives we see our dreams shattered and our desires frustrated, but we have to continue dreaming. If we don't, our soul dies, and agape cannot reach it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Soul, Frustrated

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, God, Dust

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.10, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild Lebanon's shattered infrastructure.

  John Conyers

  World, Lebanon, Violence

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• The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen.

  Brooke Shields

  Dream, Ivf, Issues

  "Paula Zahn Now", edition.cnn.com. July 1, 2005.

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

  Wallace Stevens

  Mind, Woven, Sun

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.211, Vintage

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• A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Travel, Missing, Pieces

  Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.42

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• There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.

  Evel Knievel

  Broken, Body, Bones

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• All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own.

  Richard Francis Burton

  Faith, Believe, Mirrors

  Sir Richard Francis Burton (1894). “The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû Al-Yazdi: A Lay of the Higher Law”

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• Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of creation. It makes history possible.

  Jacques Ellul

  Prayer, Together, Creation

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• European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion.

  Virginia Postrel

  War, Reality, People

  Virginia Postrel (2013). “The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Believe, Glasses, Ceilings

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• Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence and vagabondism; for in ancient days those two amusements, combining a wholesome excitement with a promising means of repairing shattered fortunes, were at once the ennobling pursuit and the healthful recreation of the Quality of this land.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Mean

  Charles Dickens “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”

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• At present the globe goes with a shattered constitution in its orbit.... No doubt the simple powers of nature, properly directed by man, would make it healthy and a paradise; as the laws of man's own constitution but wait to be obeyed, to restore him to health and happiness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Health, Simple, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Robert Ludlum

  Beach, Islands, Wind

  Robert Ludlum (2009). “The Scorpio Illusion”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when the people reaches that height, God will provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, tyranny will crumble like a house of cards, and liberty will shine out like the first dawn.

  Jose Rizal

  House Of Cards, Idols, People

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• 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.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heart, Reality, Imagination

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• Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness.

  Ali Smith

  Goodness, Filled, Shocking

  Ali Smith (2007). “The Accidental”, p.49, Anchor

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• When I'm with you, my world is complete. When I touch you, I understand the meaning of life. When I lost you, I completely shattered. You. Own. Me.

  Abbi Glines

  World, Meaning Of Life, Lost

  Abbi Glines (2013). “The Vincent Boys Extended and Uncut Collection: The Vincent Boys -- Extended and Uncut; The Vincent Brothers -- Extended and Uncut”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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• There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call a terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that once structured society. They can be detected all around us. You can select any of these fragments that activate your imagination for your own use. Let it help shape your own relationship to the unconscious system out of which these symbols have come.

  Joseph Campbell

  Relationship, Broken, Imagination

  "Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor".

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• He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.

  Ray Dalio

  Glasses, Balls, Crystals

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