Fragmented Quotes

• To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

  Adrienne Clarkson

  Mean, Civilization, Doe

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• I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

  Penelope Lively

  Memories, Way, Linear

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• However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Facts, World, Intense

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• Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.

  Willem Dafoe

  Hands, People, Giving

  "Dafoe Treads The Boards" by wenn.com, October 17, 2001.

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• I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.

  Kathy Valentine

  Valentines Day, Business, Reflection

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• Most of us dont live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

  Tobias Wolff

  Live Life, Expression, Our Lives

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• I sense that striving for wholeness is, increasingly, a countercultural goal, as fragmented people make for better consumers.

  Kathleen Norris

  People, Goal, Strive

  Kathleen Norris (1998). “The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and "women's Work"”, p.35, Paulist Press

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• It was not possible for us to produce the same optimism and the same kind of humour or irony. Actually, it was not irony. Lichtenstein is not ironic but he does have a special kind of humour. That's how I could describe it: humour and optimism. For Polke and me, everything was more fragmented. But how it was broken up is hard to describe.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Broken, Optimism

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• Because this is how it feels to live my life: scattered, fragmented, and exhausting.

  Brigid Schulte

  Living My Life, Feels, Exhausting

  Brigid Schulte (2014). “Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has The Time”, p.8, A&C Black

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• Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Race, Listening, Stories

  Madeleine L'Engle (1989). “Sold Into Egypt: Joseph's Journey Into Human Being”, Shaw

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• You can't find intimacy - you can't find home - when you're always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.

  Junot Diaz

  Running, Hurt, Home

  Interview with Matt Okie, www.identitytheory.com. September 2, 2008.

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• Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - which is what fear and anxiety do to a person - into something whole.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Ideas, Anxiety

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• When any institution becomes large and compartmentalized, with departments and subdepartments, then the conscience of the institution will often become so fragmented and diluted as to be virtually nonexistent, and the organization becomes inherently evil.

  M. Scott Peck

  Organization, Evil, Institutions

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “Further Along The Road Less Travelled”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. You may be fragmented, but you feel absolved of all the blame for it. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

  Erica Jong

  Hate, Hands, People

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• I like to be flexible in the way I take pictures. I do not use a tripod, and I move around in the crowd, of which I am myself part.... I try to preserve the dynamics of the street, and my way of using the camera tries to approximate as much as possible the way we see: focusing on details, opening up to wider angles, and composing all these very short, fragmented impressions into a larger mental picture.

  Beat Streuli

  Moving, Opening Up, Trying

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• Today, the world can appear fragmented and its people disconnected, mosaics allow me to fuse the pieces together to create something cohesive and beautiful , what I wish the world could be.

  Laura Harris

  Beautiful, People, Wish

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• A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and acting. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and self-centered spirit, we will continue to hold onto outdated goals and behaviors.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Self, Goal

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• The Church must be one because a fragmented church is not much help to a fragmented world.

  Justo L. Gonzalez

  Church, World, Helping

  Justo L. González (1999). “For the Healing of the Nations: The Book of Revelation in an Age of Cultural Conflict”

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• We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don't know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or believe in. So many contradictory voices, dictates, and feelings fight for control over our inner lives that we find ourselves scattered everywhere, in all directions, leaving nobody at home.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Buddhist, Believe, Home

  "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying". Book by Sogyal Rinpoche, www.businessinsider.com. 1992.

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• Society today is being fragmented by a way of thinking that is inherently short-sighted because it disregards the full horizon of truth - the truth about God and about us. By its nature, relativism fails to see the whole picture. It ignores the very principles that enable us to live and flourish in unity, order and harmony.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Thinking, Order, Unity

  Address at Youth Day Vigil, zenit.org. July 19, 2008.

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• Only curiosity about the fate of others, the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, and the will to enter their world through the magic of imagination, creates this shock of recognition. Without this empathy there can be no genuine dialogue, and we as individuals and nations will remain isolated and alien, segregated and fragmented.

  Azar Nafisi

  Fate, Shoes, Imagination

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• Not only does silence give us a chance to understand ourselves better, to get a truer and more balanced perspective on our own lives in relation to the lives of others: silence makes us whole if we let it. Silence helps draw together the scattered and dissipated energies of a fragmented existence.

  Thomas Merton

  Giving, Perspective, Silence

  Thomas Merton (1979). “Love and Living”, p.49, Macmillan

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• When confronted with a situation that appears fragmented or impossible, step back, close your eyes, and envision perfection where you saw brokenness. Go to the inner place where there is no problem, and abide in the consciousness of well-being.

  Alan Cohen

  Eye, Perfection, Saws

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• Our historical bequest is sublime. I have inherited a fragmented but highly creative
  exile and, since 1948, a home. I don't know that I want to settle there. I prefer the
  creative spur of exile. () But wherever I am I shall be Jewish, and that sound will
  inform every syllable I write. I am blessed with a long ancestry of wisdom, prophecy,
  and promise, a line of overwhelming creative achievements, courage, humor, and,
  above all, a dogged and chronic permanence, the greatest legacy of all.

  Bernice Rubens

  Blessed, Home, Writing

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