Broken Quotes

Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself - another person, a puzzle, a broken plate that you are gluing.

Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.

I have a toothache today. I never seem to be able to rise above a toothache. It makes me want to howl, break things, pull noses, tweak ears, screech.

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.

Call on your Lord when your heart is brittle, that is a time when it's in pieces and the Light of Allah can fill the gaps. That is why Allāh is with the broken hearted.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue.

They will never count me among the broken men.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way.

The elevator to success is broken, take the stairs.

Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

I still get very high and very low in life. Daily. But I've finally accepted the fact that sensitive is just how I was made, that I don't have to hide it and I don't have to fix it. I'm not broken.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Love can be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.

I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.

Everybody knows something's broken in the world. But illogically, foolishly, we are looking for fixes from broken people with broken ideas in broken places.

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

There's no such thing as perfect people. There's no such thing as a perfect life. So come as you are, broken and scarred. Lift up your heart and be amazed and be changed by a perfect God.

You've got to admit you're broken before you can be made whole.

The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.

Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.

Walk boldly through your life with an open, broken heart.

We've all been broken at some point. Forgiving ourselves or another person helps us move forward.

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces.

When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

You ever tried to pick up your teeth with a bunch of broken fingers

But simply punishing the broken--walking away from them or hiding them from sight--only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity.

Some were beggars, some were kings, and some were masters of the arts. But in their shame they're all the same, these men with broken hearts.

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou'd sae kindly, Had we never lou'd sae blindly, Never met - or never parted - We had ne'er been broken hearted

Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.

I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.

Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

God doesn't break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.

We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn’t it comforting to know God isn’t ever broken? He isn’t ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next.

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

Time for solitude. God, I ask you to remake my heart. Fill it with what You love. Remove from it what You don’t. And mend what I’ve broken.

You don't know what God can do with your broken pieces until you give God your broken pieces.

I tend to really like things that are broken, I like the ones that are perfectly imperfect.

It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it's probably because God has more pieces to work with.

Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.

Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.

Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure, But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.