Broken Quotes - Page 6

• Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  I Miss You, Missing You, Broken Heart

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• In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

  Cal Thomas

  Character, Home, Law

  Cal Thomas, Wayne Stayskal (2001). “The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas”

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• Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted.

  David F. Houston

  Land, Doe, May

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• Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

  Quintilian

  Broken Heart, Evil, Broken Promises

  "Institutio Oratoria". Textbook by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, I, 3, 3,

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• The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

  William Butler Yeats

  God, Time, Oxen

  Poems (1895) "The Countess Cathleen" act 4

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• How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

  Oscar Wilde

  Sad, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 5, st. 14 (1898)

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• Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

  Abigail Adams

  Broken Heart, Power, Broken Promises

  Letter to John Adams, 7 May 1776

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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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  There is no remedy for love but to love more.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Life, Break Up

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.12, Yale University Press

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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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• I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.

  Sally Field

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Breakup

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• Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Friendship, Taken, World

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (2015). “The Spiritual Maxims of Saint Francis de Sales”, p.21, Aeterna Press

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• O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

  Walter Scott

  Broken Heart, Archer, May

  'The Lord of the Isles' (1813) canto 5, st. 18

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• A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Men

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy”, p.237, The Floating Press

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• Christopher Reeve understood that everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.

  Patti Davis

  Broken Heart, Broken Promises, Vision

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• In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

  William Osler

  Broken Heart, Broken Promises, Unattainable

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.5, Ravenio Books

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• My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Heart, Way, Feels

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing.

  Jimmy Page

  Angel, Wings, Zeppelins

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• Better a broken promise than none at all.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Commitment, Promise

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.383, Courier Corporation

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• Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.

  Kelly Miller

  Broken Heart, Paris, Broken Promises

  Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights ...: Why America Entered the Conflict ...& a Thrilling Account of the Important Part Taken by the Negro in the Tragic Defeat of Germany ...”

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• Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.

  Francoise Sagan

  Relationship, Broken Heart, Cells

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• When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

  Oscar Wilde

  Broken Heart, Wise, Lost Love

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• How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone.

  Marlene Dietrich

  I Love You, Broken Heart, Love Is

  Marlene Dietrich's ABC (1962)

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• Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.

  Justin Timberlake

  Moving On, Break Up, Sympathy

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• I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

  Toni Morrison

  Broken Heart, Running, Men

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.260, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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