Best broken & fall Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

“Ingratitude is a nail which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither; it is a broken channel, by which the foundations of the affections are undermined; and a lump of soot, which, falling into the dish of friendship, destroys its scent and flavor.”

Fall Causes Tree Broken Foundation Affection Driven Dishes Nails Scent Flavor Courtesy Lumps Ingratitude

Author:Giambattista Basile

“You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet... You walk by, and I fall to pieces.”

Want Heart Fall Walks Forget Pieces Relationship Havens Broken Mets Breakup Broken Heart Want Me Heartbroken You Want Me

Author:Patsy Cline

“It's not that women don't feel things, we do. We fall in love, we get our hearts broken, we're disappointed and sad, but we've also been taught that you must always have your pride. Above all.”

Feels Heart Fall Taught Broken Pride Falling In Love Disappointed Heart Broke

Book:How to Be Single

Source: How to Be Single

“I should be glad of loneliness And hours that go on broken wings,A thirsty body, a tired heart And the unchanging ache of things,If I could make a single song As lovely and as full of light,As hushed and brief as a falling star On a winter night.”

Ifs Should Heart Body Light Night Song Fall Stars Hours Loneliness Broken Goes On Tired Wings Winter Glad Lovely If I Could Ache Thirsty Unchanging Winter Night Broken Wings

Book:Flame and Shadow

Source: Flame and Shadow

“The older child who has lost or broken some valuable thing will be found when his parents return, not run away, not willing to confess, but in a deep sleep. The thief whose case is being tried falls asleep.”

Children Running Fall Found Lost Parent Sleep Cases Willing Broken Return Valuable Running Away Thieves Valuable Things Deep Sleep

Author:Margaret Mead

“Love is like a teacup that every day falls to the ground and breaks to pieces. In the morning the pieces are gathered and with a little moisture and a little warmth, the pieces are glued together, and again there is a little teacup. He who is in love spends life fearing that the terrible day will come when the teacup is so broken that it can no longer mended.”

Littles Together Fall Love Is Break Morning Pieces Broken Terrible Warmth Love Is Like Moisture Terrible Day

Author:Subcomandante Marcos

“Then there was the time in Hollywood when I sat down in a breakaway chair and it collapsed on me. I was nearly knocked out and might have been even more seriously hurt but my fall was broken by the smog.”

Has Beens Might Funny Fall Hurt Broken Hollywood California Sat Chairs Might Have Been Smog Breakaway

Book:I KID YOU NOT

Source: I KID YOU NOT

“The death of a man's wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion. Henceforth the glare of the world, with its cares and vicissitudes falls upon the old widower's heart, and there is nothing to break their force, or shield him from the full weight of misfortune. It is as if his right hand were withered; as if one wing of his angel was broken, and every movement that he made brought him to the ground.”

“A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain.”

Fall Greater Broken Weight Fortune Columns

Author:Ovid

“When a sudden ray of sun or a moonbeam falls on a dreary street, it makes no difference what it illumines-a broken bottle on the ground, a fading flower in a field, or the flaxen blonde hair of a child's head. The object is transformed and the viewer is transfixed. Celebrate that moment of beauty and take it with you in your memory. It is God's gift to you.”

“about ten days ago I got started on a new book, and am completely, brazenly devoted to it: my hair is uncut, my letters are unwritten, the house is a shambles, and I sit here as happy as Mrs. Jellaby, though I am in 1836, not Africa. It won't go on like this, I shall fall over some obstacle, and wake out of my dreams with a black eye and broken shins: but while it does last, I daren't interrupt it. I haven't had such a spell of writing for nearly three years.”

Writing Years Doe Book Dream Eye Lasts Fall Three House Black Havens Hair Broken Goes On Ten Letters Obstacles Spells Three Years Devoted New Books Unwritten Black Eyes Shambles

Author:Sylvia Townsend Warner

“Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushes all to pieces.”

World Fall Pieces Broken Crush Temples Sincerity Fabric Fidelity Pillars

Author:Owen Feltham

“The more I see of Italy, the more I adore the Italians. They have so much heart, so much cheerfulness and gaiety, so much good humor. And the way they sing! Every now and then, when a silence falls in the streets, it is broken by some sudden singing voice, with a mellowness and a sweetness that makes you thrill.”

Way Heart Fall Voice Silence Streets Broken Singing Now And Then Thrill Adore Sweetness Cheerfulness Good Humor Gaiety

Author:Marie Van Vorst

“A man once jumped from the top floor of a burning house in which many members of his family had already perished. He managed to save his life; but as he was falling he hit a person standing down below and broke that person's legs and arms. The jumping man had no choice; yet to the man with the broken limbs he was the cause of his misfortune. If both behaved rationally, they would not become enemies.”

Ifs Men Persons Choices Fall House Causes Enemy He Man Broken Arms Members Standing Legs Burning Broke Misfortunes Jumping Limbs Burning House Standing Down

Author:Isaac Deutscher

“I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken, I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children, And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.”

Children Hard Hands Young Fall Saws Broken Thousand Ten Gun Rain Tongue Young Children Talkers Portents

Author:Bob Dylan

“Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes; and they fall into harmonious arrangements, and delight him, often most mischievously and to his ultimate detriment; but they are a present pleasure.”

Men Kind Fall Bits Pleasure Broken Ultimate Fortune Glasses Delight Merit Arrangements Harmonious Kaleidoscope Broken Glass

Book:Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon

Source: Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon

“Once you start altering your body's blueprint, things start falling apart. Some players take steroids, and two years later, after they've broken records, suddenly they have back problems, shoulder problems, arm problems. They're out of the game for good.”

Years Two Problem Body Fall Games Records Player Broken Arms Your Body Shoulders Two Years Falling Apart Blueprints Steroid

Author:Charlie Sheen

“I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.”

Death Certain Fall Prayer Forget Broken Forgotten Deeds Funeral Remembrance Memorial Eulogy Slumber Grieving A Death Death And Grieving Death Remembrance

Book:Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited

Source: Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited

“Faith stands or falls on the truth that the future with God is more satisfying than the one promised by sin. Where this truth is embraced and God is cherished above all, the power of sin is broken. The power of sin is the power of deceit. Sin has power through promising a false future. In temptation sin comes to us and says: "The future with God on his narrow way is hard and unhappy, but the way I promise is pleasant and satisfying." The power of sin is in the power of this lie.”

Way Hard Lying Fall Sin Broken Promise Truth Is Unhappy Temptation Pleasant Deceit Satisfying I Promise Sanctification

Author:John Piper

“Stop falling in love with everything that lets you down, even if your hands are shaking and your faith is broken, even as the eyes are closing, do it with a heart wide open. Say what you need to say.”

Ifs Needs Heart Hands Eye Fall Broken Falling In Love Wide Closing Shaking

Author:John Mayer

“America has a broken spirit, that the people that are saying, "Please help me, please let me keep my home, please let me keep my car, please recognize me as a vital human being," they are falling on deaf ears.”

People Humans Helping Home America Spirit Fall Human Beings Car Broken Please Ears Let Me Help Me Deaf Deaf Ears Broken Spirit Saying Please

Author:Suze Orman

“Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.”

Ifs Mind Heart Fall Rooms Broken Falling Apart

Author:Carly Simon

“The church is a place where broken people can fall in love with a beautiful God.”

People Beautiful Fall Church Broken Falling In Love

Author:Shane Claiborne

“When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the presence of God.”

Fall Pieces Broken Falling Apart Presence Of God Broken Pieces

Author:Shauna Niequist

“In the fall literally everything is broken. Nothing on this planet works. Every body is broken, none of our bodies works perfectly. Every relationship is broken. The weather is broken. I don't have a problem with hurricanes. Nothing works on this planet. This is not heaven, this is Earth and that is why we are to pray thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven. Why? Because God's perfect will is done perfectly in heaven. So I am to pray that done here.”

Done Problem Body Earth Fall Heaven Perfect Planets Broken Praying Weather Hurricanes Thy Will Be Done Body Work

Author:Rick Warren

“Definitions get you into that time trap, and I'm very much more process-focused. Take Lucy, for example. Lucy is famous largely because she has almost a total skeleton. The more sophisticated we get with instruments, the more we can find out. Through CT scans of her skeleton, they now think she died falling out of a tree because of the way her bones are broken. If nineteenth and twentieth century technologies can retroactively transform our bodiment, what then do the technologies we now use do?”

Thinking Fall Technology Tree Broken Bones Sophisticated

Author:Don Ihde

“It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.”

Heart Hard Fall Broken Asking Falling In Love Broken Heart Love Again Falling In Love Again

Author:Eric Kripke

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.”

“Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast hath all Those pieces still, though they be not unite; And now, as broken glasses show A hundred lesser faces, so My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, But after one such love, can love no more.”

Thinking Heart Stills Shows Faces Fall Wish Pieces Broken Hundred Empty Glasses Breasts Adore Rags Broken Glass

Book:The Songs and Sonets of John Donne

Source: The Songs and Sonets of John Donne

“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.”

“Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that every bus runs me over, that every low, mean syllable uttered in my direction seems to intimate the violence of murder, that every family seems like an opportunity for ruin and every marriage a ceremony into which calamity will fall and hearts will be broken and lives destroyed and people branded by the mortifications of love?”

“and even when I was broken the way sometimes one can be broken, and even though I had fallen, I found upon arising that I was stronger than before, that the glories, if I may call them that, which I had loved so much and that had been darkened in my fall, were shinning even brighter and nearly everytime subsequently I have fallen and darkness has come over me, they have obstinately arisen, not as they were, but brighter.”

Ifs Way May Sometimes Fall Found Darkness Broken Glory Stronger Fallen Brighter Stronger Than Before

Author:Mark Helprin

“I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.”

Thinking Looks Persons Eye Running Fall Energy Realizing Too Much Hair Broken Perspective Bones Falling Apart Pedestal Time And Energy Stockings Broken Bone

Book:Handle with Care: A Novel

Source: Handle with Care: A Novel

“Once there was a gypsy queen who wore on her wrist a chain of six lucky charms - a golden crown, a silver horse, a butterfly caught in amber, a cat's eye shell, a bolt of lightning forged from the heart of a falling star, and the flower of the rue plant, herb of grace. The queen gave each of her six children one of the charms as their lucky talisman, but ever since the chain of charms was broken, the gypsies had been dogged with misfortune.”

Source: The Gypsy Crown: Chain of Charms 1

“THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship, Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing Heroically lost, heroically found. No matter what disaster occurred She stood in desperate music wound, Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph Where the bales and the baskets lay No common intelligible sound But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea”

Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats

“Wayside school is falling down, falling down, falling down, Wayside school is falling down my fair lady. Kids go splat as they hit the ground, hit the ground, hit the ground, Kids go splat as the hit the ground my fair lady . Broken bones and blood and gore, blood and gore, blood and gore, Broken bones and blood and gore my fair lady. We don't have to go to school no more, school no more, school no more, We don't have to go to school no more my fair lady.”

Kids School Fall Blood Broken Fairs Bones Falling Down Gore Broken Bone My Fair Lady Blood And Gore

Author:Louis Sachar

“We were broken, brittle and fragile. The question was, were we still precious to each other? Or, instead of everything falling into place, had it fallen into pieces?”

Stills Fall Pieces Broken Fallen Fragile

Author:Megan Hart

“I don’t know why life isn’t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, things fall so short of our expectations, and our hearts get broken and out kids do scary things and our parents get old and don’t always remember to put pants on before they go out for a stroll. I don’t know why it’s not more like it is in the movies, why things don’t come out neatly and lessons can’t be learned when you’re in the mood for learning them, why love and grace often come in such motley packaging.”

Knows Heart Kids Remember Fall Parent Mistake Grace Broken Lessons Safe Expectations Scary Mood Pants Scary Things Seamless Packaging

Author:Anne Lamott

“Young Sally Owens: He will hear my call a mile away. He will whistle my favorite song. He can ride a pony backwards. Young Gillian Owens: What are you doing? Young Sally Owens: Summoning up a true love spell called Amas Veritas. He can flip pancakes in the air. He'll be marvelously kind. And his favorite shape will be a star. And he'll have one green eye and one blue. Young Gillian Owens: Thought you never wanted to fall in love. Young Sally Owens: That's the point. The guy I dreamed of doesn't exist. And if he doesn't exist I'll never die of a broken heart.”

“People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.”

People Heart Dies Fall Hurt Broken Falling Apart Heart Attack When Things Go Wrong

Author:Markus Zusak

“The universe always moves from an ordered state to a disordered one; that a glass may fall to the ground and shatter yet you never see a broken glass reassemble itself and then jump back on the table.”

May States Moving Fall Universe Broken Tables Glasses Broken Glass

Book:Lost in a Good Book

Source: Lost in a Good Book

“One of the heavy marble busts that lined the higher shelves had slid free and was falling toward her; she ducked out of its way, and it hit the floor inches from where she'd been standing, leaving a sizable dent in the floor. A second later Jace's arms were around her and he was lifting her off her feet. She was too surprized to struggle as he carried her over to the broken window and dumped her unceremoniously out of it.”

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels

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