Being Broken Quotes - Page 2

• Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Love, Broken Heart, Views

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.140, Library of Alexandria

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• No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

  FaceBook post by Faraaz Kazi from Sep 20, 2012

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• There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.

  Marian Anderson

  Broken Heart, Integrity, Moving

  Marian Anderson (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, p.312, University of Illinois Press

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• Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.

  Violeta Parra

  Cute Love, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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• There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Love, Friendship, Broken Heart

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “The Patriot: A Novel”, p.92, Open Road Media

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• There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Marriage, Sympathy

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• People who say "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" never felt a broken heart.

  LeBron James

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Heartache

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.2806, e-artnow

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• Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

  James M. Barrie

  Love, Happiness, Broken Heart

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.215, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I like being broken. It means I can have chocolate for breakfast.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Mean, Broken, Chocolate

  Twitter post from Jan 6, 2014

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• Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.

  Winona Ryder

  Depression, Crazy, Dark

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• ...2009 saw the eighth 'ten-year flood' of Fargo, North Dakota, since 1989. In Iowa, Cedar Rapids was hit last year by a flood that exceeded the 500-year flood plain. All-time flood records are being broken in areas throughout the world.

  Al Gore

  Years, Iowa, Weather

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• The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on treaties which have no other sanction than the obligations of good faith; and which oppose general considerations of peace and justice to the impulse of any immediate interest and passion.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Passion, Broken, Justice

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• Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Life, Peace, Broken

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• 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.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Children, Crazy, Lying

  "Girl, Interrupted". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Animal, Men, Broken

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.181, Penguin

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• Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve. Physician, draw back.

  Thornton Wilder

  Children, Heart, Angel

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• With what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces." Nick says. "Maybe," Nick says, "what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking.

  Rachel Cohn

  Talking, Broken, Together

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• Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me.

  Jodi Picoult

  Letting Go, Pain, Rip

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• I know firsthand how alone you can feel when you’re being broken down in a relationship and forced to defend it or stay silent. Just being able to send a text message is anonymous and safe. Mary Kay and I believe that everyone deserves a safe, healthy relationship that makes you stronger and better and I want to make sure people know how to get the help they need.

  Debby Ryan

  Believe, People, Broken

  "Jessie Star Debby Ryan Named Voice of Dating Abuse Prevention Campaign" by Danica Lo, www.glamour.com. February 17, 2015.

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• After all, they (the pro-vaccine lobbyists) say to themselves, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. But the eggs being broken are small, helpless, and innocent babies, while the omelette is being enjoyed by the pediatricians and vaccine manufacturers.

  Harris L Coulter

  Baby, Eggs, Vaccines

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• Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.

  Alice Hoffman

  Heart, Broken, Want

  Alice Hoffman (2002). “Blue Diary”, p.200, Penguin

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• You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.

  Winona Ryder

  Confused, Broken, Feelings

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• The impulse to create begins - often terribly and fearfully - in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?

  Adrienne Rich

  Real, Tunnels, Voice

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.78, W. W. Norton & Company

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