Best broken & lost Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When you see something that is broken, fix it. When you find something that is lost, return it. When you see something that needs to be done, do it. In that way, you will take care of your world and repair creation.”

World Way Needs Done Care Action Lost Creation Broken Return Take Care

Book:Jewish Spirituality: A Brief Introduction for Christians

Source: Jewish Spirituality: A Brief Introduction for Christians

“The beauty of having nothing to lose, is you learn the beauty of having everything to gain. This is where hope lives. Hope can’t be taken. Hope can’t be lost. Hope can’t be broken. When we are boiled down to what we are as people. We are not love, because we hope to love, we are not money or who we hold, because we hope to have and to hold. We are not religion or God, because we enter into belief in the hope we get something back for ourselves. We are not a soul. We are hope.”

People Soul Belief Lost Loses Love Is Taken Broken Gains Nothing To Lose Lost Hope

Author:Craig Stone

“To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.”

Matter Lost Cases Strange Broken Regard Immortality Expensive Violin Predicting Predicting The Future

Author:Anton Chekhov

“God makes it clear that his image bearers must live in dynamic communion with one another, thereby discovering and celebrating the good gift of one's own gender and that of the other. With a cross-shaped lens, we behold the beauty of man for woman and woman for man. None of us has ever lost that original design. No matter how broken we have become, we have never lost the potential to be good gifts for others!”

Men Matter Lost Clear Design Broken Men And Women Crosses Originals Gender Be Good Celebrate Discovering Communion Lenses

Author:Andrew Comiskey

“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

“Souls in heathen darkness lying, where no light has broken through, souls that Jesus bought by dying, whom his soul in travail knew.... Haste, o haste and spread the tidings, let no shore be left untrod, no lost brother's bitter chidings haunt us from the further sod; tell the heathen all the precious truths of God.”

Soul Light Lying Jesus Lost Left Darkness Dying Brother Broken Spread Bitter Shore Haste Heathen Tidings Truth Of God Sod Lost Brother

Author:Cecil Frances Alexander

“If e'er I win a parting token, 'Tis something that has lost its power-- A chain that has been used and broken, A ruin'd glove, a faded flower; Something that makes my pleasure less, Something that means--forgetfulness.”

Ifs Mean Has Beens Used Winning Lost Pleasure Flower Broken Ruins Chains Parting Gloves Forgetfulness Faded Tokens

Author:Nathaniel Parker Willis

“As anyone who has received or dispensed psychotherapy knows, it's a profession whose mainspring is love. Nearly everyone who visits a therapist has a love disorder of one sort or another, and each has a story to tell - of love lost or denied, love twisted or betrayed, love perverted or shackled to violence. Broken attachments litter the office floors like pick-up sticks. People appear with frayed seams and spilling pockets.”

Source: A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses

“Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings. Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. ... You're frightened, and you're frightening, and you're 'not at all like yourself but will be soon,' but you know you won't.”

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“Los Angeles is a sprawl of broken dreams and lost opportunities, disconnected souls and entertainment junkies. The sunny skies and graceful palms don't redeem jammed roadways to nowhere.”

Soul Dream Opportunity Lost Sky Broken Entertainment Los Angeles Palms Sunny Junkie Disconnected Broken Dreams Lost Opportunity

Book:Death in Lovers' Lane

Source: Death in Lovers' Lane

“We will come to understand the part a difficult circumstance has played in our lives. Hindsight makes so much clear. The broken marriage, the lost job, the loneliness have all contributed to who we are becoming. The joy of the wisdom we are acquiring is that hindsight comes more quickly. We can, on occasion, begin to accept a difficult situation's contribution to our wholeness while caught in the turmoil.”

“When I got the job on 'Lost,' I was a broke university student living in the crappiest part of town, with a duct-taped back window on a broken-down car. I existed on peanut butter and tea.”

Jobs Lost Car Students Broken Window Towns University Tea Broke Peanuts Peanut Butter Broken Down University Students

Author:Evangeline Lilly

“I was 21 and homeless - such a broken, lost woman.”

Lost Broken Homeless

Author:Lykke Li

“My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.”

Believe Heart Lost Loss Poor Half Broken My Heart Terrible Battle Soldier Companion Melancholy Believe In Me Old Friends My Heart Is Broken

Author:Duke of Wellington

“I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant, an inanimate object, indeed lost to us until the day, which for some never arrives, when we find that we pass near the tree, or come to possess the object which is their prison. Then they quiver, call us, and as soon as we have recognized them, the spell is broken. Freed by us, they have vanquished death and return to live with us.”

Soul Death Belief Lost Animal Tree Objects Broken Return Prison Reasonable Spells Trapped Inferiors Departed Celtic Quiver Inanimate Objects

Author:Marcel Proust

“Self-expression is not enough; experiment is not enough; the recording of special moments or cases is not enough. All of the artshave broken faith or lost connection with their origin and function. They have ceased to be concerned with the legitimate and permanent material of art.”

Art Self Enough Moments Lost Cases Special Expression Materials Broken Concerned Connections Function Experiments Permanent Self Expression Special Moments

Author:Jane Heap

“In this moment she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible: things lost or broken by her own fault, things she had forgotten and left in houses when she moved: books borrowed from her and not returned, journeys she had planned and had not made, words she had waited to hear spoken to her and had not heard, and the words she meant to answer with. . . .”

Source: Flowering Judas and Other Stories: A Library of America eBook Classic

“My ceiling's broken, my car's got a puncture and we've just lost two matches. But I've got my health and I'll ask the big man upstairs why he didn't give us a point.”

Men Giving Two Bigs Asks Lost Car Broken Ceilings Upstairs Puncture

Author:Ian Holloway

“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”

“Some field days can be tough. I've worked inside fuel tanks with 3 foot ceilings, in -42 to +42 Celsius temperatures, in snow and smoke and hail, and I've dug through snow and ice and pavement to find legal evidence. I've worked clear through the night by headlamp, and I've flown in a rickety long-islander with propane tanks strapped into the other seats. I've jury-rigged missing equipment, broken into my own truck, and cut out an emergency helicopter pad with a machete. I've been hungry, cold, tired, lost, injured, and downright hopeless!”

“A large portion of American citizens, especially people of color, have lost confidence in our criminal justice system. Many have called for appointing special prosecutors when a police officer kills or injures a civilian. If you were elected president, would you publicly support special prosecutors in these cases and what is one other thing you would do to fix our broken justice system?”

“The al-Qaida cell broken up near Buffalo, N.Y., contains some citizens who also found themselves in Afghanistan, training for the Great All-Around Satan Smiting. Treason? Oh, of course not. They were on a religious pilgrimage and got lost. Happens all the time. I knew a kid who went to Lutheran Bible Camp and turned up six years later in a Christian Identity compound with a shaved head and a Hitler mustache.”

“We can have our hearts broken over so much more. It is important to recognize the full spectrum of heartbreak. We can be heartbroken by lost and by disappointment. But heartbreak is not just this negative image we see, it's not this terrible experience that brings no benefits.”

Heart Important Lost Broken Terrible Benefits Negative Disappointment Heartbroken Spectrum Heart Broke

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it.”

Knows Want Inspirational Needs Writing Trying Joy Lost Failing Mines Broken Sorrow Gratitude Battle Okay Redemption Generosity Selfishness I Am Thankful

Author:Kristin Armstrong

“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.”

Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

“The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.”

World Life Firsts Might Lost Ability Magic Broken Lays Broken World

Book:The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel

Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel

“The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered handful of doves or dust might be reunited by a word, that a paper rose consumed by fire could be made to bloom from a pile of ash. But everyone knew that it was only an illusion. The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.”

World Firsts Made Might Lost Bits Ability Fire Magic Broken Promise Paper Illusion Lays Rose Dust Ashes Torn Magician Handful Consumed Dove Reunited Broken World

Author:Michael Chabon

“There are ways in, journeys to the center of life, through time; through air, matter, dream and thought. The ways are not always mapped or charted, but sometimes being lost, if there is such a thing, is the sweetest place to be. And always, in this search, a person might find that she is already there, at the center of the world. It may be a broken world, but it is glorious nonetheless.”

Ifs World Way May Persons Sometimes Matter Dream Might Lost Air Journey Broken Glorious Sweetest Center Of The World Broken World

Author:Linda Hogan

“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions." "I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray.”

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)

“She talks with a broken heart - Her voice lutes brokenly like a heart lost, musically too, like in a lost grove, it's almost too much to bear sometimes like some fantastic futuristic Jerry Southern singer in a nightclub who steps up to the mike in the spotlight in Las Vegas but doesn't even have to sing, just talk, to make men sigh and women wonder I guess.”

Men Heart Sometimes Lost Voice Wonder Steps Too Much Broken Bears Singers Fantastic Southern Sigh Mike Vegas Las Vegas Step Up Jerry Spotlight Grove Futuristic Nightclubs

Book:Big Sur

Source: Big Sur

“If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope. For who could ever learn to love a beast? -Beauty & the Beast”

Ifs Years Would Be Lasts Lost Broken Return Despair All Time Beast Spells Doomed Petals

Author:Walt Disney

“Santangelo is irritated. "We're not suppose to be collaborating. It's supposed to be a war and you're supposed to stick to the boundaries." "We've seen you in your jocks," she reminds him. "Taylor and Griggs have pashed. You've broken into your father's police station for us. Don't you think the war has lost a bit of its tension?”

Thinking War Father Lost Bits Broken Police Sticks Boundaries Supposed To Be Tension Stations Irritated Jocks Collaborating

Author:Melina Marchetta

“Words, words, word. Once, I had the gift. I could make love out of words as a potter makes cups of clay. Love that overthrows empire. Love that binds two hearts together, come hellfire & brimstone. For sixpence a line, I could cause a riot in a nunnery. But now -- I have lost my gift. It's as if my quill is broken, as if the organ of my imagination has dried up, as if the proud -illegible word- of my genius has collapsed.”

Ifs Heart Two Together Lost Causes Imagination Lines Broken Proud Genius Cups Empires Organs Making Love Clay My Imagination Potters Riot Quills Two Hearts

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.”

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Book:Oliver Twist

Source: Oliver Twist

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls. Where words come out from the depth of truth, where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection. Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit. Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action. In to that heaven of freedom, my father, LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE!”

Source: Gitanjali: Collection of Tagore Poems

“In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed. Once you've been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness. The natural smile is taken from you and the natural pleasures you once enjoyed lose their appeal.”

“The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon it carries the same waters which it gathered under ours, and its unseen valleys are made glad by the offerings which are borne down to them from the past,--flowers, perchance, the germs of which its own waves had planted on the banks of Time.”

Made Past Life Is Lost Water Flower Broken Flow Rivers Sight Wave Glad Carrie Horizon Valleys Offering Unseen Continuity Germs New Horizons Continuity Of Life

Book:The Stranger in Lowell

Source: The Stranger in Lowell

“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

“Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God's love encompasses us completely. ... He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken.”

Feels May Lost Broken God Love Imperfect Awkward Rejected Compass Flawed Incomplete God's Love Sorrowful God Loves Us

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“It's stupid, I know, but I care. All the things that meant so much when we were young. Under the blankets late at night, listening to long-distance radio. All those things lost now or broken. Can you remember? Can you remember that feeling? Perhaps I ought to go to a doctor.”

Knows Long Feelings Care Remember Young Night Lost Stupid Broken Listening Ought Late Doctors Distance Radio I Care Blanket Long Distance

Author:Grant Morrison

“Regret couldn't fix what he's broken. Apologies couldn't bring back what he's lost. What we'd lost.”

Lost Regret Broken Apology

Author:Rachel Vincent

“My daughter squealed again and both Bubba and I winced. It’s not an attractive sound, that. It’s high-pitched and it enters your ear canals like hot glass. No matter how much I love my daughter, I will never love her squealing. Or maybe I will. Maybe I do. Driving down 93, I realized once and for all, that I love the things that chafe. The things that fill me with stress so total I can’t remember when a block of it didn’t rest on top of my heart. I love what, if broken, can’t be repaired. What, if lost can’t be replaced. I love my burdens.”

“In fact I no longer value this kind of memento. I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted. There was a period, a long period, dating from my childhood until quite recently, when I thought I did. A period during which I believed that I could keep people fully present, keep them with me, by preserving their mementos, their "things," their totems.”

People Want Kind Long Facts Values Lost Childhood Broken Periods Dating Reminders Totems Memento

Book:Blue Nights (Enhanced Edition)

Source: Blue Nights (Enhanced Edition)

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