Home / Topics / Broken Quotes

Broken Quotes

Browse 4108 quotes about Broken.

Broken Quotes

“I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.”

Heart Helping Broken My Heart Terrible Help Me I Have Learned Terrible Things How To Love My Heart Is Broken

Book:The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection

Source: The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection

“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

“[On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister.”

Done Actors Broken Terrible Legs London Barristers

Author:Dorothy Parker

“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

“You hear terrible stories because there'll be a story about some terrible kid, but most of the kids I work with are terrific kids. They're poor, maybe their families are broken, so they're not coming home to a mom and dad and a nice dinner every night. But these kids are capable.”

Stories Home Kids Night Poor Nice Broken Mom Dad Terrible Capable Dinner Coming Home Every Night Terrific Mom And Dad

Author:Rafe Esquith

“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 think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears, of the idea of losing my mom or my best friend or doing something so terrible to somebody that's kind of deemed unforgivable, or having a really broken family.”

Thinking Writing Kind Ideas Worst Broken Mom Terrible Losing My Mom My Best Friend Unforgivable Worst Fear Broken Family

Author:Phoebe Waller-Bridge

“It always felt like the price of being a writer was that you would - even in the most terrible moments, there was a little phantom version of you sitting on your shoulder with a notebook going, I can use this. OK, look at the way that the light is glinting off the broken plastic on the road next to the blood. You can use this. And it was always a very strange feeling.”

Way Looks Littles I Can Moments Use Feelings Light Next Felt Blood Strange Broken Terrible Sitting Shoulders Versions Plastic Notebook Phantoms

Author:Neil Gaiman

“When I use the word 'healing', by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we're very good at handling, but there's always a sense of the violation. 'Why me?' 'Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else's?' And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.”

Thinking Mean Done Use Jobs Spiritual Healing Broken Terrible Disease Elements Medicine Very Good Legs Violation Skis Why Me

Author:Abraham Verghese

“[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this story lasted, but Peter Pan himself, listening in. In exchanged for a story of yours, he might show you his most prized possession: James Hooks' map of Neverland. In exchange for a smile, he may show you Neverland itself.”

May Stories Shows Might Heard Broken Listening Habit Terrible Pages Possession Maps Peter Hook Neverland Eavesdropping Prized Possessions

Author:Geraldine McCaughrean

“The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.”

Heart Made Turns Break Broken Terrible Stones Terrible Things

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

“Look at me, he said to her. His arms and legs jerked. Look at me. You got your wish. I have learned how to love. And it’s a terrible thing. I’m broken. My heart is broken. Help me. The old woman turned and hobbled away. Come back, thought Edward. Fix me”

Looks Heart Said Helping Wish Broken Arms My Heart Terrible Legs Help Me I Have Learned Look At Me Terrible Things Old Woman How To Love Arms And Legs My Heart Is Broken

Author:Kate DiCamillo

“I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!”

Want Love Life Heart Long Said Moments Rooms Imagine Wonderful Broken Fine Terrible Right Now News Blind Filled Optimistic Long Life Gus

Author:John Green