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• I liken an affair to the shattering of a Waterford crystal vase. You can glue it back together, but it will never be the same again.

  John M. Gottman

  Together, Glue, Vases

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• I discovered for myself and by myself that there is no self to realize -- that's the realization I am talking about. It comes as a shattering blow. It hits you like a thunderbolt. You have invested everything in one basket, self-realization, and, in the end, suddenly you discover that there is no self to discover, no self to realize -- and you say to yourself "What the hell have I been doing all my life?!" That blasts you.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Blow, Self, Talking

  U. G. Krishnamurti, Rodney Arms (2002). “The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti”, p.2, Sentient Publications

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• There are really only two stories the coal industry tells: "Coal keeps the lights on, and by implication, you'll live in medieval, soul-shattering darkness if you don't let us do whatever the hell we want with the landscape and drinking water you public health, because there's no alternative."

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Drinking, Two, Light

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• War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

  George Orwell

  Peace, War, Intelligent

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• Spirituality is a mixed-up, topsy-turvy, helter-skelter godliness that turns our lives into an upside-down toboggan ride of unexpected turns, surprise bumps and bone shattering crashes ... a life ruined by a Jesus who loves us right into his arms.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Jesus, Bumps, Arms

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• Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges; then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands clear.

  Margaret Atwood

  Life, Distance, Farewell

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.76, Anchor

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• [Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. ...Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms...

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Men, Joy

  "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, New World Library, (Ch. 2), 1949.

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• Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter came the shattering thunder of the World War. And now a blood-drenched, bitter world — no longer laughing — cries for a way out. There is but one way out. It existed before it was engraven upon Tablets of Stone. It will exist when stone has crumbled. The Ten Commandments are not rules to obey as a personal favor to God. They are the fundamental principles without which mankind cannot live together.

  Cecil B. DeMille

  Religious, Laughter, War

  "Cecil B. DeMille's Campaign for a Godly Culture" by Mark H. Creech, www.christianpost.com. September 9, 2013.

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• I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.

  Lesley Garrett

  Wine, Glasses, People

  "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

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• Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God. It is saying “Yes, Lord!” - no resistance, no chafing, no stubbornness - simply submitting myself to His direction and will in my life.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Self, Resistance, Saying Yes

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2008). “Brokenness: The Heart God Revives”, p.51, Moody Publishers

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• Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of modern life (that nothing matters, nothing changes, money is everything, etc). Writing is a state of being as well as an act of doing.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Powerful, Writing, Soul

  "Creative writing professor Hanif Kureishi says such courses are 'a waste of time'" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2014.

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• Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Self, Surrender, Gods Will

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2008). “Brokenness, Surrender, Holiness: A Revive Our Hearts Trilogy”, p.44, Moody Publishers

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• The very first part in healing is shattering the silence.

  Erin Merryn

  Healing, Silence, Firsts

  Erin Merryn (2009). “Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness”, p.58, Health Communications, Inc.

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• But I'm tone deaf - window-shattering tone deaf. I can't sing for the life of me. I can't sing or dance, so no remake of 'Grease' for me!

  Dev Patel

  Grease, Tone, Window

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Happiness, Joy, Storm

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• Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence.

  Margaret Atwood

  Farewell, Shadow, Flesh

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.76, Anchor

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• One can make one's life a complete misery, worrying about burglaries and shipwrecks, but ask anyone, anyone you know ... earth-shattering disasters and fabulous inheritances all seems to take place exclusively in the newspapers.

  Jean Anouilh

  Worry, Inheritance, Earth

  Jean Anouilh (1991). “The rehearsal or Love punished”, Methuen

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• When people say it's a funny thing about them, you will probably be able to control your hysterics. They are only getting ready to announce the shattering fact that they don't like something. And it's not going to be something that's really quite awful, like suttee or apartheid; it's going to be something small.

  Peg Bracken

  Funny Things, People, Able

  Peg Bracken (1969). “I Didn't Come Here to Argue”

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• Sex finds us. Sex sees through us. That's why it's so shattering. It strips us of appearances.

  Don DeLillo

  Sex, Appearance

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Cosmopolis”, p.42, Pan Macmillan

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• The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused Him of being a bore - on the contrary; they thought Him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround Him with an atmosphere of tedium.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Jesus, People, Justice

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• What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.

  Sarah Monette

  Stories, Earth, Matter

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• It's a bit like the feeling I get when I'm standing on a cliff or high building, looking down at a suicidal drop. I start thinking about what would happen if I stepped off, the rush of the fall, the shattering collision, the quiet emptiness of death. Part of me wants to experience the thrill of complete surrender.

  Darren Shan

  Fall, Suicidal, Thinking

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• There are times when one cannot accept facts for fear of shattering one's being. As I listened to Ian's news, all of Digit's life, since my first meeting with him as a playful little ball of black fluff ten years earlier, passed through my mind. From that moment on, I came to live within an insulated part of myself.

  Dian Fossey

  Years, Black, Mind

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• I haven't invented anything earth-shattering. If I could be said to have one noteworthy ability compared with the average person, it's that I have a keen interest in reading the direction and timing of paradigm shifts.

  Masayoshi Son

  Reading, Average, Earth

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• The lives of most people are small tight pallid and sad, more to be mourned than their deaths. We starve at the banquet: We cannot see that there is a banquet because seeing the banquet requires that we see also ourselves sitting there starving-seeing ourselves clearly, even for a moment, is shattering. We are not dead but asleep, dreaming of ourselves.

  David Foster Wallace

  Dream, People, Sitting

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