Broken Glass Quotes

• Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

  Anton Chekhov

  Inspirational, Writing, Moon

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• Broken glass. It's just like glitter, isn't it?

  Pete Doherty

  Glasses, Broken, Glitter

  New Musical Express, November 2005.

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• Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

  Publilius Syrus

  Glasses, Broken, Glitter

  "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 280,

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• I’m packed with broken glass and memories and it all hurts.

  Henry Rollins

  Hurt, Memories, Glasses

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• Best to let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller pieces and dust and scatter. Let the cracks between things widen until they are no longer cracks but the new places for things. That was where they were now. The world wasn't ending: it had ended and now they were in the new place. They could not recognize it because they had never seen it before.

  Colson Whitehead

  Glasses, Dust, Broken

  Colson Whitehead (2011). “Zone One”, p.257, Random House

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• Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dog, Glasses, Broken

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• Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass.

  Terry Pratchett

  Glasses, Broken, Enlightenment

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Mort: (Discworld Novel 4)”, p.233, Random House

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• Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Broken Heart, Glasses, Together

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• Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.

  Robert Frost

  Thinking, Glasses, Broken

  Robert Frost, Gary D. Schmidt (1994). “Robert Frost”, p.44, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

  Derek Walcott

  Strong Love, Stronger, Broken Pieces

  Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.69, Macmillan

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• As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass, or does it come in like honey?

  Eddie Condon

  Music, Glasses, Broken

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• Room Full Of Mirrors, that's more of a mental disarrangement. This says something about broken glass used to be all in my brain.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Glasses, Mirrors, Broken

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• I remember hearing myself start to whimper, a five-year-old, crouched by the side of the road, staring into my father's eyes, whimpering because it was so dark and there was no one coming to help, whimpering because my mother was back in the crushed car, not moving, and my father was lying here in the dirt, not answering me, not holding me, not comforting me, not helping my mother get out of the car, and there was blood, so much blood, and broken glass everywhere, and it was so dark and so cold and no one was coming to help.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Mother, Father, Lying

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Bitten”, p.32, Vintage Canada

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• I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.

  Burl Ives

  Teacher, Men, Class

  Burl Ives (2017). “Wayfaring Stranger”, p.120, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• One of the most challenging ways is to slow down enough to relax our heart and feel what is nearest. It could be the sun reflecting off of broken glass in an alley. It could be the shine on a crow. It could be snow on a lamp post.

  Mark Nepo

  Heart, Shine On, Glasses

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• One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death? The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight. I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table. I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it - incredibly.

  Ajahn Chah

  Philosophy, Blow, Wind

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• I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.

  Christopher Columbus

  Broken Heart, Boys, Glasses

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.50

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• Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes; and they fall into harmonious arrangements, and delight him, often most mischievously and to his ultimate detriment; but they are a present pleasure.

  Arthur Helps

  Fall, Men, Glasses

  Arthur Helps (1873). “Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon”, p.25

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• The Germans will crawl bollock-naked over broken glass to get low fares.

  Michael O'Leary

  Glasses, Broken, Naked

  "Michael O'Leary in his own words" by John Crace, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2009.

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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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• An ancient proverb summed it up when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life.

  Terry Pratchett

  Tired, Glasses, Broken

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “The Light Fantastic: (Discworld Novel 2)”, p.33, Random House

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• Do you know what pain is, Cammie? It’s the body’s physical response to imminent harm. It is the mind’s way of telling us to move our hand off the stove or let go of the broken glass.

  Ally Carter

  Letting Go, Pain, Moving

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• It seems to me that you need a lot of courage, or a lot of something, to enter into others, into other people. We all think that everyone else lives in fortresses, in fastnesses: behind moats, behind sheer walls studded with spikes and broken glass. But in fact we inhabit much punier structures. We are, as it turns out, all jerry-built. Or not even. You can just stick your head under the flap of the tent and crawl right in. If you get the okay.

  Martin Amis

  Wall, Thinking, Glasses

  "Time's Arrow". Book by Martin Amis, www.avclub.com. September 1991.

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• I'd crawl over broken glass for Elle MacPherson or Cindy Crawford.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Glasses, Broken, Cindy

  "Jersey Devil". Interview With Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. February 9, 2006.

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• Steve Forman is a brutally funny writer. His no-nonsense, unadorned style begs comparison to Dashiell Hammett, but Hammett's humor at its darkest never hit home this hard. Reading of Eddie Perlmutter's exploits is like rolling in an aisle paved with broken glass and wanting to do it all over again two minutes later.

  Loren D. Estleman

  Reading, Home, Two

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