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“In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure, a time of sickness and disappointed plans, and makes a sudden pause in the hymns of our lives, and we lament that our voice must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time and not be dismayed at the rests. If we look up, God will beat the time for us.”

“You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that any more, well you know, there you go. Trust was broken.”

Knows World Wells Ends This World Broken Honor Built Reputation The End Of The Day

Author:George Tenet

“We'll fight, not out of spite For someone must stand up for what's right 'Cause where there's a man who has no voice There ours shall go singing My hands are small I know But they're not yours, they are my own But they're not yours, they are my own I am never broken In the end only kindness matters In the end only kindness matters”

Knows Men Ends Matter Hands Fighting Causes Voice My Own Kindness Broken Singing Spite

Author:Jewel

“We live in this irreparably broken world, and I don't wish to deny reality, but the amazing thing to me is not that we refuse to relinquish hope as a species. The amazing thing is that we're right to hold on to hope. The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy. ... Obviously not all stories end happily. We don't always have good fortune, but hope gives us, as a species and as individuals, what we otherwise wouldn't have: A chance.”

World Giving May Ends Stories Reality Individual Wish Chance Crazy Broken Fortune Species Refuse Deny Good Fortune Amazing Things Broken World

Author:John Green

“The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue, posits the separation as already effected, and thrusts into oblivion all those stammered, imperfect words without fixed syntax in which the exchange between madness and reason was made. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness, has been established only on the basis of such a silence.”

Source: Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry

“Here's why I don't have time to 'play church': at the end of the day, when I was supposed to be discarded, and the tools came in to kill me, to crush my head or whatever you're supposed to do, the Lord took His hand, pushed in there, and pushed me back out of the way. And they thought they got me. But at the end of the day God had a plan for a broken situation.”

Way Ends Play Hands Church Situation Lord Plans Broken Tools Supposed To Be Crush The End Of The Day Kill Me Discarded

Author:Fred Hammond

“... life is broken down into these stages: you're born and you don't know how anything works; gradually you find out how everything works; technology evolves and slowly there are a few things you can't work; at the end, you don't know how anything works.”

Knows Ends Life Is Born Technology Know How Stage Broken Evolve Broken Down

Book:I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomething

Source: I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomething

“It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the existence of goodness. How could a spiritless, soul-less, cross-less, Godless universe become the center of faith, purity, sacrifice, and martyrdom? How can decency be the decent thing if there is no God? Since God is love, why should we be surprised that want of it should end in pain, hate, broken hearts, and war?”

“It is the broken heart that makes us human in the end.”

Humans Heart Ends Broken

Author:Melanie Rae Thon

“The only time I had what you would call life-threatening fear was when I was on the Moon. Towards the end of our stay, we got excited and we were going to do the high jump, and I jumped and fell over backwards. That was a scary time, because if the backpack got broken, I would have had it. But everything held together.”

Ifs Ends Together Broken Moon Scary Excited Backwards Threatening Only Time

Author:Charles Duke

“There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.”

Ends Marriage Broken Painful Divorce Dramatic Thread Stubborn Tangled Summary

Author:Wallis Simpson

“I might have felt broken, but at the end of it all, I didn't allow myself to break.”

Ends Might Felt Break Broken

Author:Allison Winn Scotch

“I used to have horrible cars that would always end up broken down on the highway. When I tried to flag someone down, nobody stopped. But if I pushed my own car, other drivers would get out and push with me. If you want help, help yourself - people like to see that.”

People Ifs Want Ends Helping Used My Own Car Broken Horrible Drivers Flags Highways Help Yourself Broken Down Asking For Help

Author:Chris Rock

“Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.”

Ends Love Is Broken Mirrors Love Is Like

Book:Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day

Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day

“History is a promise that is always broken in the end”

Ends Broken Promise

Author:Goenawan Mohamad

“Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.”

Ends Break Broken Stronger

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass) or who had no glass at all, because he was at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman's eye.”

People World Persons Has Beens Ends Eye Broken Type Calling Glasses Crowds Bars Broken Glass Glass Half Full Barmen

Author:Terry Pratchett

“The only victory that really counts in prison is survival. But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the body that must survive a jail term; the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it. And it's for those small victories of the heart, and the spirit, and the will that we sometimes risk the body that cradles them.”

Ifs Men Wells Heart Mean Said Ends Sometimes Body Spirit Term Walks Alive Risk He Man Broken Victory Survival Prison Sentences Destroyed Gates Jail Survived Cradle Small Victories

Author:Gregory David Roberts

“To live with the work and the letters of James Joyce was an enormous privilege and a daunting education. Yes, I came to admire Joyce even more because he never ceased working, those words and the transubstantiation of words obsessed him. He was a broken man at the end of his life, unaware that Ulysses would be the number one book of the twentieth century and, for that matter, the twenty-first.”

Men Firsts Book Ends Matter Would Be Numbers Century Broken Letters Twenties Privilege Enormous Admire Obsessed Twentieth Century Joyce Ulysses Broken Man Transubstantiation

Author:Edna O'Brien

“In the end you're not made or broken by prizes. Your relationship is with your readers, not a prize, and you just have to keep on honoring that.”

Made Ends Broken Reader Prize Our Relationship

Author:Richard Flanagan

“The goal for me is, I build the record that I put out as one individual song. Even though it's broken up into tracks, to me it's like one hour-long piece of music. In assembling the whole thing, I'm really thinking, okay, it's gonna end here, it's gonna start here, and I kind of have the idea of the journey.”

Thinking Kind Long Ideas Ends Whole Song Individual Goal Hours Records Pieces Journey Broken Okay Track One Hour Broken Up Assembling

Author:Girl Talk

“[John Adams and Tomas Jefferson] shared experience in 1775 - 1776 in bringing about the separation from Britain and their service in Europe cemented a friendship that in the end withstood the most serious political and religious differences that one could imagine, especially their differences over the French Revolution. It was probably Jefferson's obsession with politeness and civility that kept the relationship from becoming irreparably broken.”

“Philip Glass, like [Virginia] Woolf, is more interested in that which continues than he is in that which begins, climaxes, and ends... Glass and Woolf have both broken out of the traditional realm of the story, whether literary or musical, in favor of something more meditative, less neatly delineated, and more true to life. For me, Glass [finds] in three repeated notes something of [a] rapture of sameness.”

Ends Stories Three Broken Notes Musical Glasses Favors Traditional Realms Virginia Rapture Sameness True Life Philip Climax Woolf

Author:Michael Cunningham

“It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the last moment. But I tell you there is no such message, no such home -- only the millions of last moments . . . nothing more. Our history is an aggregate of last moments.”

Ends Moments Home Lasts Millions Atheism Creation Broken Messages Notion Atheist Kingdoms Fallen Someday Live By Sparks Gathering Fragments Vessel Messengers Arriving

Author:Thomas Pynchon

“When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”

Source: Looking for Alaska

“Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just like all men. And they had some children who were just like all children. And it rained all day. The woman had to skewer the hole in the kitchen sink, when it was blocked up. The man went to the pub every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The other nights he mended his broken bicycle, did the pool coupons, and longed for money and power. The woman read love stories and longed for things to be different. The children fought and yelled and played and had scabs on their knees. In the end they all died.”

“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'm beginning to feel that no author has the right to tear his characters apart if he doesn't know how, or feel that he knows how (poor sucker) to put them together again. I'm tired—my God, so tired—of leaving them all broken on the page with just 'The End' written underneath.”

Ifs Knows Feels Ends Character Together Poor Know How Written Tears Broken Pages Tired Leaving I'm Tired Sucker Together Again

Author:J. D. Salinger

“Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks.”

Ends Broken Madness Necks Climbs

Author:C. S. Lewis

“They would place their hands together inside the circle so that they could walk in each other's dreams. It forged a bond that could not be broken. The circle represents love in eternity. For there is no beginning and no end.”

Ends Dream Hands Together Walks Broken Eternity Circles Forged Hands Together

Book:The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.”

“We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people no longer speak to each other Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings Born into this Into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s cheaper to die Into lawyers who charge so much it’s cheaper to plead guilty Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes”

Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993

“Even still, we run. We have not reached our average of 57.92 years without knowing that you run through it, and it hurts and you run through it some more, and if it hurts worse, you run through it even more, and when you finish, you will have broken through. In the end, when you are done, and stretching, and your heartbeat slows, and your sweat dries, if you've run through the hard part, you will remember no pain.”

Ifs Years Stills Ends Hard Done Running Pain Remember Hurt Knowing Broken Average Sweat It Hurts Heartbeat Stretching No Pain

Book:The Monsters of Templeton

Source: The Monsters of Templeton

“I sometimes end up in dangerous situations, and I come back to you broken and messed up, and you worry about me when I'm gone. It's like marrying a policeman.”

Ends Sometimes Situation Worry Gone Dangerous Broken Policemen Marrying Messed Up Dangerous Situations

Book:The Time Traveler’s Wife

Source: The Time Traveler’s Wife

“What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be, and some rules are better broken.”

Ends Seems Broken

Book:The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes

Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes

“How will it ever be bearable, Priestess?” His voice was rough. He sounded completely broken. “You’ll see her again. She’s with Nyx now. She’ll either wait for you in the Goddess’s meadow, or she’ll be reborn and her soul will find you again during this lifetime. You can bear it because you know that spirit never really ends-we never really end.”

Knows Soul Ends Spirit Waiting Voice Broken Bears Lifetime Rough Goddess You Again Meadows Reborn Bearable Priestesses Nyx

Author:P. C. Cast

“According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's an apt metaphor for our profession. But there's another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.”

Kind Stills Ends Sometimes Moments Happens Life Is Next Speak Generations Broken Birth Tasks Lifetime Metaphor Profession Wounds Holes Divides Next Generation Fixing Unfinished Shiva

Author:Abraham Verghese

“It was true what Jim said, this wasn’t the end but the beginning. But the wars would end one day and Jim would come then, to the island they would share. One day surely the wars would end, and Jim would come home, if only to lie broken in MacMurrough’s arms, he would come to his island home. And MacMurrough would have it built for him, brick by brick, washed by the rain and the reckless sea. In the living stream they’d swim a season. For maybe it was true that no man is an island: but he believed that two very well might be.”

Ifs Men Wells Said Two War Ends Home Might Lying Sea Share Broken Arms One Day Built Rain Seasons Islands Streams Coming Home Swim Bricks Reckless

Author:Jamie O'Neill

“The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps.”

“Several sets of arms would embrace me. But in the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too. I reach out for him and say something like his name and he's there, holding me and patting my back. "It's okay. It'll be okay, sweetheart." He sits me on a length of broken marble pillar and keeps an arm around me while I sob.”

Want Persons Ends Names Broken Arms Comfort Okay Embrace Length Reach Out Marble Pillars Peeta Sweetheart Haymitch Haymitch Abernathy

Book:Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

“Nobody climbs on skis now and almost everybody breaks their legs but maybe it is easier in the end to break your legs than to break your heart although they say that everything breaks now and that sometimes, afterwards, many are stronger at the broken places.”

Heart Ends Sometimes Break Broken Easier Stronger Legs Climbs Skis Break Your Heart

Book:Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

“People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly limited. The sob stories we like are the ones that end before we're bored.”

People Ends Stories Life Is Broken Despair Tolerance Bored Hopeless

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies.”

Ends Dream America Space Policy Broken Moon Prove Apollo Visionaries Predecessors Restoring Dead Ends Broken Dreams Spacecraft

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“Fight ever on: this earthly stuff If used God’s way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friend Fight out life’s battle to the end. One soldier, when the fight was red, Threw down his broken sword and fled. Another snatched it, won the day, With what his comrade flung away.”

Ifs Way Ends Enough Faces Used Fighting Stuff Lines Broken Battle Red Soldier Comrade Firing

Author:Edwin Markham

“From the end of the bar, the bartender threw a sidelong look at him, so Clarence pulled out a broken Bluetooth headset and fixed it to his ear. "I learned this trick while traveling with Mikey," Clarence told Nick. "Makes my brand of crazy the same as everyone else's.”

Looks Ends Crazy Broken Ears Tricks Bars Brands Fixed Bartender Mikey Bluetooth Headset

Author:Neal Shusterman

“For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end.”

World May Ends Evil Broken Pursue Oath Silmarillion

Book:The Silmarillion

Source: The Silmarillion

“God plants dreams in people's hearts. But many people do not continue all the way to the end in order to follow Him to the fulfillment of that dream. Many get started and quit get started and quit get started and quit. They do not continue because their broken heart overwhelms their hope. They do not have any inner strength to carry them through to the end. Jesus will bind up your wounds and heal your bruises. His Word is the medicine for your soul.”

People Way Heart Soul Ends Dream Order Jesus Broken Medicine Plant Wounds Quitting Heal Your Soul Fulfillment Inner Strength Bruises

Book:Beauty for Ashes: Receiving Emotional Healing

Source: Beauty for Ashes: Receiving Emotional Healing

“Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,’ Holly advised him. ‘That was Doc’s mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can’t give your heart to a wild thing; the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they’re strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That’s how you’ll end up Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You’ll end up looking at the sky.”

Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's

“He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, "when my knees are all skinned up and my pants are wet and my hair's off to one side and I feel like I've been in the foxhole all day. I don't think comfort is good for music. It's good to come out with skinned knuckles after wrestling with something you can't see. I like it when you come home at the end of the day from recording and someone says, "What happened to your hand?" And you don't even know. When you're in that place, you can dance on a broken ankle.”

Thinking Knows Feels Ends Home Hands Sides Happened Hair Broken Comfort Studios Likes Knees The End Of The Day Coming Home Wrestling Pants Wet Ankles Knuckles Foxholes

Author:Tom Waits