Best broken & dark Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched my hurt, and even relished it, a little, for now I could write a real death, a true loss. My heart was broken by my dark lady, and I wept, in my room, alone; but while I wept, somewhere inside I smiled.”

Ifs Writing Heart Littles Real Hurt Dark Loss Rooms Son Broken My Heart Happenings Died My Son I Was Hurt

Author:Neil Gaiman

“All the disappointments, broken dreams and deep dark experiences will soon be forgotten and blotted out like a bad dream, when that glorious dawn of Heaven arrives!”

Dream Heaven Dark Broken Forgotten Disappointment Dawn Glorious Heavenly Broken Dreams Bad Dream Deep Dark

Author:David Berg

“War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.”

War Soul Whole Eye Mother Sound Dark Forget Streets Sweet Broken Wet Widows Butchery Wet Eyes

Author:Seneca the Younger

“STARING INTO THE ABYSS by Richard Thomas is an outstanding book, a grim tapestry of broken lives and shattered dreams, of dark fantasies and dark reflections. It's one of the better single-author collections I've had the pleasure to read in recent years, and as such, gets my highest recommendation. It's also a fine testament to a talent I suspect we are going to be hearing a lot more from, and soon.”

“Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze. Gaining and failing they are buffeted by a dark wind - But what? On harsh weedstalks the flock has rested - the snow is covered with broken seed husks and the wind tempered with a shrill piping of plenty.”

Age Dark Failing Tree Wind Broken Bird Seeds Snow Old Age Flight Plenty Covered Harsh Flocks Skimming Bare Trees

Author:William Carlos Williams

“I try to catch at many a tuneLike petals of light fallen from the moon,Broken and bright on a dark lagoon,But they float away - for who can holdYouth, or perfume or the moon's gold?”

Trying Light Dark Broken Moon Gold Fallen Perfume Floats Petals Lagoons

Book:Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

“My soul is a dark ploughed field In the cold rain; My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain.”

Soul Pain Dark Fields Broken Cold Rain My Soul

Book:Flame and Shadow

Source: Flame and Shadow

“In pitch dark I go walking in your landscape Broken branches Trip me as I speak Just 'cause you feel it Doesn't mean it's there... We are accidents waiting Waiting to happen.”

Feels Mean Happens Speak Causes Waiting Dark Broken Accidents Landscape Branches

Author:Thom Yorke

“Dark the Night, with breath all flowers, And tender broken voice that fills With ravishment the listening hours,-- Whisperings, wooings, Liquid ripples, and soft ring-dove cooings In low-toned rhythm that love's aching stills! Dark the night Yet is she bright, For in her dark she brings the mystic star, Trembling yet strong, as is the voice of love, From some unknown afar.”

Source: The Complete Works of George Eliot in Eighteen Volumes: Poems

“Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which it dwells. Genii, unknown to Arabian fable, wait at the portal. Whatever is most precious from the loom or the mine of fancy is poured at its feet. Love, purified by contemplation, visits and cheers it; unseen musicians are heard in the dark; it is Psyche in the palace of Cupid.”

Hands Poetry Waiting Dark Heard Feet Mines Broken Taste Musician Contemplation Fancy Cheer Fabric Unseen Magician Palaces Fables Wands Portal Cupid Arabian

Book:Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature

Source: Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature

“The dark in soul see in the universe their own shadow; the shattered spirit can only reflect external beauty in form as untrue and broken as itself.”

Soul Form Spirit Universe Dark Broken Sorrow Shadow Shattered Untrue External Beauty

Book:Is it Possible to Make the Best of Both Worlds?: A Book for Young Men

Source: Is it Possible to Make the Best of Both Worlds?: A Book for Young Men

“Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.”

Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

“There are knives that glitter like altars In a dark church Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile To be healed. There's a woden block where bones are broken, Scraped clean--a river dried to its bed”

Church Dark Broken Bed Rivers Clean Killing Bones Block Knives Altars Healed Glitter Cripples Imbeciles

Author:Charles Simic

“There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.”

People Stories Heaven Dark Broken Computer Fairy Afterlife Relatable Broken Down Afraid Of Death Fairy Stories Not Afraid Of Death Early Death

Author:Stephen Hawking

“I like the idea of being sort of withdrawn and mysterious, and what can be more mysterious that someone wearing a trash bag, like a dark trash bag, with eye holes that say "nihilism?" You'd be curious. What's underneath that? Is it perfect? Or is it broken?”

Ideas Eye Dark Perfect Broken Holes Mysterious Curious Bags Trash Nihilism

Author:Eugene Mirman

“Dreams and expectations also have the very dark flipside of disappointment, broken dreams.”

Dream Dark Broken Expectations Disappointment Broken Dreams City Of Angels

Author:James Franco

“Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between the partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death.”

Heart Energy Dark Broken Partners Visible Broken Heart Racing Back And Forth

Author:Colette Dowling

“Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.”

Source: I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”

“But there was not a moment when she did not see Carol in her mind, and all she saw, she seemed to see through Carol. That evening, the dark flat streets of New York, the tomorrow of work, the milk bottle dropped and broken in her sink, became unimportant. She flung herself on her bed and drew a line with a pencil on a piece of paper. And another line, carefully, and another. A world was born around her, like a bright forest with a million shimmering leaves.”

World Mind Moments Born Lines Dark Millions Saws Pieces Streets New York Broken Tomorrow Bed Paper Forests Evening Flats Bottles Milk Pencils Unimportant Carols

Author:Patricia Highsmith

“April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too much, the world burgeons with promises it can't keep, all passion is really a setup, and we're doomed to get our hearts broken yet again. I agree, and would further add: Who cares? Every spring I go out there anyway, around the bend, unconditionally. ... Come the end of the dark days, I am more than joyful. I'm nuts.”

Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

“I remember hearing myself start to whimper, a five-year-old, crouched by the side of the road, staring into my father's eyes, whimpering because it was so dark and there was no one coming to help, whimpering because my mother was back in the crushed car, not moving, and my father was lying here in the dirt, not answering me, not holding me, not comforting me, not helping my mother get out of the car, and there was blood, so much blood, and broken glass everywhere, and it was so dark and so cold and no one was coming to help.”

Years Helping Eye Remember Moving Lying Mother Father Sides Dark Five Blood Car Broken Cold Glasses Hearing Staring Five Years Dirt Comforting Crushed Five Year Olds Broken Glass Lying Here

Book:Bitten

Source: Bitten

“Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.”

“Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their hands outstretched. They had come down from the back mountains and higher places to hold forth their hands for something they thought civilization could offer, and they never dreamed the sadness and the poor broken delusion of it.”

Knows Way Hands Would Be Eye Dark Poor Sadness Serious Broken Higher Civilization Offers Mountain Ancient Insane Bridges Wheels Bombs Someday Delusion Cracks Stretching Dean Dense Hawks

Author:Jack Kerouac

“Because in a small dark room, a broken child lies on a filthy bed and stares up at a high window. He waits for me, too. And I—I who have failed at everything and have failed everyone—I must not, I cannot, I will not fail him.”

Children Lying Waiting Dark Rooms Failing Broken Bed Window Staring Filthy Dark Room Wait For Me

Book:Revolution

Source: Revolution

“Such a fuss ofer a few mundanes." Mrs Dark chuckled and moved to stand beside her sister, so that Will, with his blazing sword, was between Tessa and both ladies. "We have no quarrel with you, Shadowhunter, unless you choose to pick one. You have invaded our territory and broken the Covenant Law in doing so. We could report you to the Clave-" "While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly, they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way," Will said”

People Way Said Law Dark Views Broken Picks Moved Reports Territory Peculiar You Choose Quarrels Covenant Shadowhunters Blazing

Book:Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“She took off her dark glasses and squinted at me. It was as though her eyes were shattered prisms, the dots of blue and gray and green like broken bits of sparkle.”

Eye Bits Dark Broken Blue Green Glasses Gray Her Eyes Shattered Dots Sparkle Prisms Dark Glasses

Book:Breakfast at Tiffany's

Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's

“Time becomes a stutter-the space between drumbeats, splintered into fragments, and also endlessly long, as long as soaring guitar notes that melt into one another, as full as the dark mass of bodies around me. I feel like the air downstairs has gone to liquid, to sweat and smell and sound, and I have broken apart in it. I am wave: I am pulled into the everything. I am energy and noise and a heartbeat going boom, boom, boom, echoing the drums.”

Feels Long Body Energy Sound Dark Space Gone Air Broken Mass Notes Guitar Wave Smell Noise Sweat Soar Fragments Heartbeat Liquid Space Between

Book:Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex

Source: Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex

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