Wreckage Quotes

• No matter your wreckage. There will be someone to find you beautiful, despite the cruddy metal. Your ruin is not to be hidden behind paint and canvas. Let them see the cracks. Someone will come to sing into these empty spaces.

  Sarah Kay

  Beautiful, Space, Cracks

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• The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

  Jack London

  Beautiful, Stories

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• This universe is the wreckage of the infinite on the shores of the finite.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Infinite, Shore, Universe

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• I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, World, Destruction

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• Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Men, Others Opinions

  A Room of One's Own (1929) ch. 3

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• The individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Respect, Independent, Self

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• What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Money, Civilization, People

  Gone with theWind pt. 2, ch. 9 (1936)

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• Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.

  Norman Borlaug

  Regret, Past, Men

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down, half-finished loves.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Love, Break Up, Running

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• When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Broken Heart, Children, Broken Promises

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• The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.

  Sylvia Plath

  Silence, Shells, Pebbles

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.86, Hamilton Books

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• You're in the arms of the Angels; may you find some comfort here.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Angel, Grieving, Comfort

  Song: In The Arms Of The Angel

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• After spending most of her life scanning the horizon for slights and threats, genuine and imagined, she knew the real threat to her happiness came not from the dot in the distance, but from looking for it. Expecting it. Waiting for it. And in some cases, creating it. Her father had jokingly accused her of living in the wreckage of her future. Until one day she'd looked deep into his eyes and saw he wasn't joking. He was warning her.

  Louise Penny

  Life, Distance, Father

  Louise Penny (2014). “The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.22, Macmillan

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• That's how I became the damaged party boy who wandered through the wreckage, blood streaming from his nose, asking questions that never required answers. That's how I became the boy who never understood how anything worked. That's how I became the boy who wouldn't save a friend. That's how I became the boy who couldn't love the girl.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Love, Girl, Party

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “Imperial Bedrooms”, p.4, Vintage

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• A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential - here was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost...It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Goodbye, Home

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.26, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• .. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Children, Mind, Steps

  G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.13, Read Books Ltd

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• She touches me The jungle lights up with incinerating fire Looks like a flaming serpent I look into her eyes I see a movie flickering Car crashes People kicking corpses Men ripping their tracheas out and shaking them at the sky I think to myself: I don’t want to survive this one I want to burn up in the wreckage Cooking flesh in the jungle

  Henry Rollins

  Eye, Thinking, Men

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.27, Villard

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• This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Dream, Opportunity

  "Wings of Fire: An Autobiography of APJ Abdul Kalam". Book by Abdul Kalam, Aruṇ Tivāri, p. 140, 1999.

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• His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.

  Carson McCullers

  Years, Columns, Solitary

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Collected Stories of Carson McCullers”, p.160, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In mindful grief, we become the landing strip that allows any feelings to arrive. Some crash, some land softly. Some harm us, but none harm us in a lasting way. We remain as they taxi away or as their wreckage is cleared away. We can trust that we will survive.

  David Richo

  Grief, Grieving, Land

  David Richo (2002). “How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving”, p.252, Shambhala Publications

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• Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot. The next day, walking among the wreckage, I found the friable nests of birds, completely intact and unharmed on the ground. That the featherweight survive the massive, that this reversal of fortune takes place among us — that is what haunts me. I don’t know what it means.

  Mary Ruefle

  Mean, Years, Two

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.206, Wave Books

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• There's no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take away everything you've built, everything you've counted on, leaving wreckage and no meaning behind. It can happen to anyone, it can happen to you.

  Damon Galgut

  Morning, Blue, Sky

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• You just have to work really hard to tune out the noise and the static. Because it gets louder, and people really have an opinion, and you don't want to shy away from taking chances for fear of what people will say, or living in the wreckage of the future [of] what may be if I do this.

  Jennifer Aniston

  People, Tunes, Shy

  "Jennifer Aniston says she won't let tabloids steal her joy". "Associated Press" Interview, www.cbsnews.com. March 24, 2014.

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• In the periods of crisis, the bigger firms absorb the smaller ones,and when the industrial monsters eventually go down, the wreckage is far greater than when the little enterprises buckle.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Monsters, Littles, Bigger

  Robert L. Heilbroner (2011). “The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• But the people of the disaster area fundamentally needed to understand that the rest of Australia had noticed their misery and their stoicism and their intense sense of community and determination to arise from the sodden wreckage of their homes, and that Australians would dig deep to help. I helped to describe the community ethos which quickly triumphed over incipient despair. It is this mobilisation of the unifying spirit that thrills us all, even as we mourn.

  Peter Cosgrove

  Leadership, Determination, Home

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