Shattered Quotes

• The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Eye, Mirrors, Sorrow

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.136, Wordsworth Editions

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• I’m really cracking. No, I’m beyond cracking. I’m shattered. I’m lost. I’m fragmented.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Lost, Fragmented

  Beatrice Sparks (1990). “Jay's Journal”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

  Helen Keller

  Softball, Faith, Inspiration

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.60, Matthew Gordon

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• Don’t despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes that’s how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered first.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Beautiful, Heart, Despair

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• It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Dream, Years, Mold

  Mary E. Pearson (2014). “The Kiss of Deception”, p.279, Macmillan

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• I felt dull and flat and full of shattered visions.

  Sylvia Plath

  Vision, Dull, Flats

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.33, Hamilton Books

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• Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

  Douglas Horton

  Happiness, Past, Inner Peace

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• We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

  Anais Nin

  Art, Philosophy, Self

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  Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Men, Rocks, Young Friends

  "Fictional character: Edmond Dantès". "The Count of Monte Cristo", 2002.

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• There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.

  Djuna Barnes

  Surface, Whole, Objects

  Djuna Barnes, Rebecca Loncraine (2003). “The Book of Repulsive Women and Other Poems”, p.11, Psychology Press

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  I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

  Leonard Cohen

  Sorrow, Despair, Sides

  Song: Heart With No Companion, Album: Various Positions, 1984

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• Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly.

  Colleen Hoover

  Heart, Broken, Promise

  Renee Carlino, Abbi Glines, Colleen Hoover, Jamie McGuire, Gail McHugh (2014). “Just A Touch: The Atria Indie Author 2014 Sampler”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  People, Pieces, Bits

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• When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead - When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Lying, Clouds, Light

  'Lines: When the lamp'

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• When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

  Dennis Quaid

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

  "Quaid: Split From Ryan Was 'Like Death'". W Magazine Interview, abcnews.go.com. July 19, 2001.

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• I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don’t want to.

  Henry Rollins

  Heart, Broken, Want

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• Sometimes I think maybe they were right all along, the people on the other side in Zombieland. Maybe it would be better if we didn't love. If we didn't lose either. If we didn't get our hearts stomped on, shattered: if we didn't have to patch and repatch until we're like Frankenstein monsters, all sewn together and bound up by who knows what. If we could just float along, like snow. But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosions of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

  Lauren Oliver

  Summer, Flower, Sunset

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• Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.

  Amy Ephron

  Calm, Surface, Has Beens

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• It's [a miscarriage] all very thief-in-the-night. No one really knows what to say. You go into the emergency room, you think you're going to be a mum and you walk out empty. It's all neat and tidy, there's this potential being in your life and you're empty - all cleaned up and put back together, but completely shattered.

  Tori Amos

  Miscarriage, Night, Thinking

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• It is the mind that is woven, the mind that was jerked
  And tufted in straggling thunder and shattered sun.

  Wallace Stevens

  Mind, Woven, Sun

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.211, Vintage

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• I am only about half alive - a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However - so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Philosophy, Suicidal, Bored

  Letter to Alfred Galpin (27 May 1918), in "Letters to Alfred Galpin" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 18), 2003.

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• We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body. Many times in our lives we see our dreams shattered and our desires frustrated, but we have to continue dreaming. If we don't, our soul dies, and agape cannot reach it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Soul, Frustrated

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, God, Dust

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.10, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Soul, Speak, Difficult

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• Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild Lebanon's shattered infrastructure.

  John Conyers

  World, Lebanon, Violence

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