Shattered Quotes - Page 9

• Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph. . . . Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Faith, Fall, Sleep

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• 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]

  Douglas Horton

  Gratitude, Past, Feel Good

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• 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.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Moving, Reality, One Direction

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• I feel like that's something the church has done really badly is actually confessing. We are sinners. We are broken, shattered people that do things selfishly, out of arrogance, pride, lust, greed. And all have fallen short. That doesn't mean some we're definitely a part of that inclusive all.

  Jon Foreman

  Mean, Pride, People

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• I intend to leave this life so shattered there's gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts

  Andrea Gibson

  Heaven, Flying, This Life

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• If you feel incomplete, you alone must fill yourself with love in all your empty shattered spaces

  Oprah Winfrey

  Space, Empty, Incomplete

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• Art in its execution and direction is dependent on the time in which it lives, and artists are creatures of their epoch. The highest art will be that which in its conscious content presents the thousandfold problems of the day, the art which has been visibly shattered by the explosions of last week The best and most extraordinary artists will be those who every hour snatch the tatters of their bodies out of the frenzied cataract of life, who, with bleeding hands and hearts, hold fast to the intelligence of their time.

  Richard Huelsenbeck

  Art, Hands, Body

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• She looked up at him with a smile. The smile broke what was left of his resistance--shattered it. He had let the walls down when he'd thought she was gone, and there was no time to build them back up.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, Gone, Resistance

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.450, Simon and Schuster

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• Even from the abyss of horror in which we try to feel our way today, half-blind, our hearts distraught and shattered, I look up again and again to the ancient constellations that shone on my childhood, comforting myself with the inherited confidence that, some day, this relapse will appear only an interval in the eternal rhythm of progress onward and upward.

  Stefan Zweig

  Heart, Onward And Upward, Childhood

  Stefan Zweig, Wes Anderson (2014). “The Society of the Crossed Keys”, p.20, Pushkin Press

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• I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.

  Albert Camus

  Beach, Doors, Silence

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.59, Vintage

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• I mean, if you were to find a shattered mirror, find all the pieces, all the shards and all the tiny chips, and have whatever skill and patience it took to put all that broken glass back together so that it was complete once again, the restored mirror would still be spiderwebbed with cracks, it would still be a useless glued version of its former self, which could show only fragmented reflections of anyone looking into it. Some things are beyond repair. And that was me.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Mean, Reflection, Self

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• Is he... is Dimitri a Strigoi?" Mason hesitated only a moment, like he was afraid to answer me, and then—he nodded. My heart shattered. My world shattered.

  Richelle Mead

  Heart, Answers, World

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.222, Penguin

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• I hate those endless descriptions of a heroine's physical attributes . . . it really bothers me how in books it seems like the only two choices are perfection or self-hatred. As if readers will only like a character who's ideal--or completely shattered.

  E. Lockhart

  Hate, Book, Character

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List”, p.19, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• If Tolstoy were alive today and working at Panopticon Insurance, he'd say that all insurance companies are the same, then throw himself through an eighteenth story window and plunge to his death in a hail of glass and shattered dignity" (70).

  Paul Neilan

  Glasses, Stories, Alive

  Paul Neilan (2007). “Apathy and Other Small Victories: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

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• To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it’s based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Jewels, Risk, Important

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

  Elizabeth Scott

  Dream, People, Waking

  Elizabeth Scott (2011). “As I Wake”, p.116, Penguin

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• Saiman picked up a coffee mug, stared at it, and hurled it against the wall. It shattered into a dozen pieces. We looked at him. “Your date appears to be hysterical,” Rene told me. “You think I should slap some man into him?

  Ilona Andrews

  Wall, Coffee, Men

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.76, Penguin

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• It is sad to see a young man's fondest hopes and dreams shattered when the rose-colured veil is plucked away and he sees the actions and feelings of men for what they are. But he still has the hope of replacing his old illusions with others, just as fleeting, but also just as sweet.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Dream, Sweet, Men

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• For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear in new forms and are songlike in their refrains and rhymes, making up a single monologue. We live permanently in the recurrence of our own stories, whatever story we tell.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Echoes, Glasses, Childhood

  FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Dec 05, 2011

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• Glass shattered, vampires roared, humans screamed. The noise battered at me, just as the tidal wave of scores of brains at high gear washed over me. When it began to taper off, I looked up into Eric's eyes. Incredibly, he was excited. He smiled at me. "I knew I'd get on top of you somehow," he said. Are you trying to make me mad so I'll forget how scared I am?" No, I'm just opportunistic." I wiggled, trying to get out from under him, and he said, "Oh, do that again. It felt great.

  Charlaine Harris

  Eye, Glasses, Mad

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.471, Penguin

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• I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day.

  Jodi Picoult

  Together, Cracks, Vases

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Feet, Soul, Feelings

  "A Civil Campaign". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.

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• When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dark, Glasses, Confusion

  "Alias Grace". Book by Margaret Atwood, www.nytimes.com. September 1996.

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• And indeed it was, the arrow still protruding from its wet, grayish skin, humping its body along with incredible speed. A flick of its tail caught the edge of a statue, sending it flying into the dry ornamental pool, where it shattered into dust. “By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles,” noted Will. “Has no one respect for the classics these days?

  Cassandra Clare

  Angel, Dust, Arrows

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• Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea blue tears into the books spine, grape-colored whales spouted blood around a newspaper item (pasted in) listing arrivals to the endangered spieces list. Six hatchlings cried from shattered shells near an entry made on Easter. Cecilia had filled the pages with a profusion of colors and curlicues, candyland ladders and striped shamrocks.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Easter, Book, Angel

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.29, Macmillan

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