Best Fragmented Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The past is like a broken mirror— you don’t remember but fleeting glimpses of it, sparse moments over many years, all combined in that distorted and fragmented picture. Whenever you try to gather the fragments of the past, it hurts your soul, just as shards of broken glass hurt your fingertips while trying to collect them from the ground.”

Soul Past Fragments Mirror Fragmented Broken Mirror

Author:Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi

“Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to: it's too painful to believe that their parents would do such a thing. So they fragment the memories into hundreds of shards, leaving only acceptable traces in their conscious minds. Rationalizations like "my childhood was rough," "he only did it to me once or twice," and "it wasn't so bad" are common, masking the fact that the abuse was devastating and chronic. But while the knowledge, body sensations, and feelings are shattered, they are not forgotten. They intrude in unexpected ways: through panic attacks and insomnia, through dreams and artwork, through seemingly inexplicable compulsions, and through the shadowy dread of the abusive parent. They live just outside of consciousness like noisy neighbors who bang on the pipes and occasionally show up at the door.”

Healing Abuse Mental Health Addiction Mental Illness Denial Survivor Child Abuse Dread Subconscious Ptsd Alcoholism Insomnia Avoidance Dissociation Abuse Survivors Nightmares Survivors Incest Healing Insights Fragmented Traumatic Experiences Childhood Abuse Conscious Awareness Rationalization Mental Disorder Traumatized Panic Attacks Dissociative Disorder Alcohol Addiction Self Protection Child Rape Dissociative Amnesia Healing From Abuse Minimizing Flashback Abusive Parents Healing Abuse Trauma Memory Defense Mechanism Flashbacks Parental Abuse Effects Of Child Abuse Minimization Denial Of Abuse Trauma Memories Denial Of Child Abuse Traumatic Memories Abusive Parent Intrusive Sadistic Abuse Denial Of Incest Incestuous Psychological Defence Bad Childhood Irrational Fears Abusive Childhood Intrusions Minimizing Issues Dissociated Amnesia Compulsions Compulsive Eating Fear Of Truth Body Memories Compulsive Behavior Compulsive Overeating Seemingly Inexplicable Behavior Sex Addition

Book:The Couple Who Became Each Other: Stories of Healing and Transformation from a Leading Hypnotherapist

Source: The Couple Who Became Each Other: Stories of Healing and Transformation from a Leading Hypnotherapist

“You wore my watch then claimed it as your own, twisting its chain slowly, hovered over the blaze of my torment. You would yell endless regrets across the dance Hall of echoes. So many echoes from a source that swayed smiling…id throw u over & over but you were the yoyo that’s loop strapped itself to the bones of my finger, layers so deep it would take more than a cut to untie your deceit. Lips bitter but your touch soothing & sweet. My heart would palpitate the moment your presence crept through the walls of my flesh; you held tight the gasps of breath keeping my chest strained with the pressures of your high demands. Not a single thing was enough, you needed me fragmented…”

Love Quote Torment Altered Fragmented Torn Apart Deciet

Author:L V HALL

“I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.”

Source: Write like no one is reading

“For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how many different people are there not - Heaven help us _ all having lodgement at one time or another in the human spirit? Some say two thousand and fifty two. So that it is the most usual thing in the world for a person to call, directly they are alone...Come, come! I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another. But it is not altogether plain sailing either...these selves of which we are built up, one on top of another, as plates are piled up on a waiter's hand, have attachments elsewhere, sympathies, little constitutions and rights of their own...so that one will only come if it is raining....another if you can promise it a glass of wine - and so on...”

Identity Self Awareness Shifting Multiplicity Fragmented Performative Post Structural

Author:Virginia Woolf

“There, there, best to bring it all up,' she said. My memory was in shreds. Imagine a photograph cut into narrow strips then jumbled up. Everything is there, but you can't see the whole picture and even the strips have no bearing on reality. I did know I had consumed a large amount of alcohol. But I must have done something crazier than just being found drunk to have a nurse sitting by my bed. I thought it would be a good idea to say something and planned it for several seconds. 'She's all right,' I said. 'Who is?' asked the nurse. 'Alice. I'm all right now.' As I spoke I wondered if I had said something wrong. didn't sound like me. There were so many voices muttering in the background it was hard to tell.”

Victim Mental Health Photograph Memory Confusion Survivor Dissociative Identity Disorder Dissociation Amnesia Hospital Multiple Personality Disorder Ritual Abuse Fragmented Dissociative Paedophile Ring

Book:Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind

Source: Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind

“I still didn't know very much about the complex coping mechanism that had helped me survive my childhood. It was as if my conscious mind wasn't strong enough yet to fully grasp that I had parts. I knew it superficially, but I didn't feel it all the way through.”

Dissociative Identity Disorder Fragmented Dissociative Disorder Dissociative Parts

Book:The Sum of My Parts: A Survivor's Story of Dissociative Identity Disorder

Source: The Sum of My Parts: A Survivor's Story of Dissociative Identity Disorder

“With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President Obama ... is stepping once again - and with understandably great reluctance - into the chaos of an entire civilization that has broken down. Arab civilization, such as we knew it, is all but gone. The Arab world today is more violent, unstable, fragmented and driven by extremism - the extremism of the rulers and those in opposition-than at any time since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire a century ago.”

“A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales...”

Science Objects Definitions Scales Mathematical Concrete Fragmented Fractals

Author:Benoit Mandelbrot

“I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid - a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry - Nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity ... The existence of these patterns challenges us to study these forms that Euclid leaves aside as being "formless," to investigate the morphology of the "amorphous."”

Different Form Science Used Term Challenges Levels Existence Study Higher Degrees Standards Claims Patterns Complexity Geometry Exhibits Different Levels Fragmented Euclid Morphology

Author:Benoit Mandelbrot

“If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness.”

Ifs Giving Soul Process Failing Appreciate Western Linear Cleverness Disconnected Fragmented Egocentric Thought Process

Author:Joel Salatin

“These days movies are cut very quickly and sort of fragmented and I tend to do slower moving stories where people develop relationships with people. I think I'd probably do a lot better if I lived in Europe - I think it's more of a European sensibility somehow.”

People Ifs Thinking Stories Moving Cutting Europe These Days Sensibility Fragmented

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach.”

Knows Wells Children Littles Care Today Teach Approach Tasks Sick Cures Who Cares Fragmented

Book:Continuities in Cultural Evolution

Source: Continuities in Cultural Evolution

“Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains.”

Fall Social Economic Military Direct Victim Unions Defeat Empires Soviet Soviet Union Strain Fragmented Disintegration

Book:The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives

Source: The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives

“We're in this strange age where we can't say 'I love you,' at least not sincerely. It's something where, if you simplify it, the whole point of trying to capture it would sort of make it dead. The fragmented thing can create a situation where the holes between the pieces of the puzzle can be filled with meaning, and thereby you get a greater sense of complexity or feeling.”

Ifs Trying Whole Feelings Age Situation Greater Pieces Love You Strange Filled Holes Complexity Capture Puzzles Sincerely Simplify Say I Love You Fragmented

Author:Christoffer Boe

“The new coherent picture is not yet available. With all their immense empirical success, G(eneral)R(elativity) and Q(uantum)M(echanics) have left us with an understanding of the physical world which is unclear and badly fragmented. At the foundations of physics there is today confusion and incoherence.”

World Today Left Understanding Foundation Available Physics Confusion Immense Fragmented Unclear Incoherence

Author:Carlo Rovelli

“On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions and established artistic conventions, or antagonism towards the public (as representative of the existing order). By contrast any positive programme tends to be claimed as exclusive property by isolated and even mutually antagonistic sub-groups. So modern art appears fragmented and sectarian, defined as much by manifestos as imaginative work.”

“While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice.”

Wells Said Practice Doubt Alive Movement Serious Ideals Agree Ideology Propositions Components Ongoing Zionist Fragmented

Author:Theodore Bikel

“Books are surviving in this intense, fragmented, hyper-accelerated present, and my sense and hope is that things will slow down again and people will want more time for a contemplative life. There is no way people can keep up this pace. No one is happy. Two or three hours to read should not be an unattainable thing, although I hope we get to that stage without needing a corporate sponsored app to hold our hand. The utopian in me has my fingers crossed that we haven't quite figured out the digital future just yet. After all, the one thing we know about people: they always surprise.”

“Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.”

Writing Each Day Fragmented

Author:Erica Jong

“I feel inauthentic at a party. ... Going to a party is a 'low' activity - the authentic self is compromised, fragmented - one plays 'roles.' One isn't fully present, beyond role-playing. One doesn't (can't) tell the full truth, which means one is lying, even if one doesn't literally tell lies.”

Ifs Feels Mean Self Play Truth Lying Party Roles Activity Lows Authentic Self Fragmented Role Playing

Book:As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

Source: As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

“Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.”

World Long Together Poetry Activity Long Time Poetry Is Maintenance Fragmented

Book:Claiming Breath

Source: Claiming Breath

“[On The Philippines:] ... eighty dialects and languages are spoken; we are a fragmented nation of loyal believers, divided by blood feuds and controlled by the Church.”

Language Nations Church Blood Believer Controlled Divided Loyal Asia Eighty Philippines Dialect Fragmented Feuds

Book:Dogeaters: A Novel

Source: Dogeaters: A Novel

“I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.”

Men Looks Soul Eye Mother Found Father Grows Youth Lovers Mouths Bones Flesh Tales My Soul Fairy Old Man Categories Fairy Tale Folds Cracked Fragmented

Author:Jennifer Stone

“The ideal is to create a completely fragmented atomized society where everybody is totally alone, doing nothing but trying to pursue created wants, and the wants are created.”

Want Trying Ideals Pursue Doing Nothing Fragmented

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Most of us dont live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.”

Our Lives Expression Live Life Fragmented

Author:Tobias Wolff

“When any institution becomes large and compartmentalized, with departments and subdepartments, then the conscience of the institution will often become so fragmented and diluted as to be virtually nonexistent, and the organization becomes inherently evil.”

Evil Conscience Organization Institutions Department Fragmented

Book:Further Along The Road Less Travelled

Source: Further Along The Road Less Travelled

“The entire hominid collection known today would barely cover a billiard table, ... the collection is so tantalizingly incomplete, and the specimens themselves often so fragmented and inconclusive, that more can be said about what is missing than about what is present. ...but ever since Darwin's work inspired the notion that fossils linking modern man and extinct ancestor would provide the most convincing proof of human evolution, preconceptions have led evidence by the nose in the study of fossil man.”

“The more you enter, the more you become locked in. Your social-networking site becomes a central platform - a closed silo of content, and one that does not give you full control over your information in it. The more this kind of architecture gains widespread use, the more the Web becomes fragmented, and the less we enjoy a single, universal information space.”

“Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture.”

Culture Natural Emotion Consequence Visuals Pornography Sentimentality Fragmented Natural Consequences

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Yoga is anything which reveals or reflects the wholeness that we truly are, and the world is anything that makes us feel that we are fragmented, dissected, cut into pieces and out of tune with ourselves.”

World Feels Pieces Cutting Yoga Tunes Wholeness Fragmented

Author:Krishnananda Saraswati

“Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.”

People Thinking Feels Creativity Products Down And Obstacles Finished Tunes Polished Fragmented Biggest Obstacles

Author:Jeff Mangum

“Europe's financial system is fragmented, although the gap in funding costs for banks within the euro area is no longer as wide as it was two years ago. But in lending the differences are still very large, and in some countries the credit flow is disrupted.”

Years Stills Two Country Differences Cost Europe Areas Years Ago Flow Financial Credit Wide Two Years Gaps Funding Euro Lending Fragmented Financial System Two Years Ago

Author:Mario Draghi

“Simplicity means taking charge of a life that is too busy, too stressed, and too fragmented. An uncluttered simplicity means cutting back on trivial distractions, both material and non-material, and focusing on the essentials - whatever those may be for each of our unique lives.”

May Mean Cutting Materials Essentials Unique Busy Simplicity Distraction Stressed Too Busy Fragmented Taking Charge Unique Life

Author:Duane Elgin

“I sense that striving for wholeness is, increasingly, a countercultural goal, as fragmented people make for better consumers.”

People Goal Strive Consumers Wholeness Fragmented

Book:The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and

Source: The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and

“You have people saying two things that seem to contradict each other. One, that we live in a golden age of TV. The other, that television is dying. There's a reason for that. What we mean when we say it's dying is that it's already way past being fragmented into little chunks. Now it's being polarized into an aerosol mist.”

People Way Mean Littles Two Reason Seems Age Past Dying Television Tvs Golden Two Things Mist Chunks Golden Age Fragmented

Author:Dan Harmon

“The forms of the short, written poem as they have been developed in English over the past few centuries can be usefully seen as compressed, truncated, or fragmented imitations of other verbal forms, especially the play, story, public oration, and personal essay.”

Has Beens Play Stories Past Form Written Century Imitation Essays Over The Past Fragmented Personal Essays

Author:Robert Scholes

“The profound political changes we need in order to heal our planet will not come about through fragmented problem solving or intellectual analyses that overlook the deepest yearnings and intuitions of the heart....As we begin to cultivate a rich inner life and experience our connection with all life, we realize how little of what society tells us we need is actually important for our well-being....Green politics must address the spiritual vacuum of industrial society.”

“Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.”

Cosmos Divorced Fragmented

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“I work in lockstep, hand in glove, with the prime minister on these issues, and as we are supportive to the Eurozone so they can sort their problems out, in return they introduce safeguards to ensure precisely what I said: that the single market is not fragmented and that important industries like the financial services industry are treated fairly. Not exceptional treatment, but are just simply treated fairly, on a level playing field within Europe.”

“... all of my life I've made things that are like fragmented mirrors of what I perceive to be the world. As far as I'm concerned the fact that in 1990 the human body is still a taboo subject is unbelievably ridiculous. What exactly is frightening about the human body?”

World Humans Made Stills Facts Body Subjects Concerned Mirrors Ridiculous Perceive Frightening Human Body Taboo Fragmented Exactly Is

Book:Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

Source: Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

“I like to be flexible in the way I take pictures. I do not use a tripod, and I move around in the crowd, of which I am myself part.... I try to preserve the dynamics of the street, and my way of using the camera tries to approximate as much as possible the way we see: focusing on details, opening up to wider angles, and composing all these very short, fragmented impressions into a larger mental picture.”

Way Trying Use Moving Streets Cameras Details Crowds Impression Opening My Way Preserves Angle Flexible Composing Dynamics Opening Up Fragmented Tripods

Author:Beat Streuli

“Seances is an internet project where I intended to adapt at least a hundred and maybe three hundred lost films into ten and twenty minute long fragmentary versions. We then uploaded them to an internet archive that fragmented them even more. We treated them like shreds of lost movie spirits and allowed these spirits to interrupt each other in non-consecutive collisions that formed new movies.”

Long Film Spirit Three Lost Minutes Internet Ten Projects Hundred Twenties Treated Versions Collision Archives Fragmented Consecutive

Author:Guy Maddin

“Rock music seems to be very fragmented these days, I can't say that I ever really hear anything that just knocks me over.”

I Can Seems Rocks These Days Rock Music Fragmented

Author:Alex Lifeson

“We think Android is very, very fragmented, and becoming more fragmented by the day. And as you know, Apple strives for the integrated model so that the user isn't forced to be the systems integrator.”

Thinking Knows Becoming Models Strive Apples Users Strife Integrated Becoming More Fragmented Androids

Author:Steve Jobs

“I think parenting actually makes you lose pieces of your soul again, because they go off, into your children. Or, I mean, I am so fragmented, and I'm such a spacey person.”

Thinking Mean Children Persons Soul Loses Pieces Our Children Your Soul Your Children Fragmented

Author:Larkin Grimm

“They are obviously pirate services. Sure they might be able to survive as small businesses, but it's hard to get advertisers to advertise on a pirate site. It's a hugely fragmented market.”

Hard Reality Might Able Site Small Business Pirate Fragmented Advertisers

Author:Robert Cecil Martin

“When I started out as an activist, the issues were much clearer. There's advantage to the new media, but on the other hand, you miss the ability to frame an issue that you had when there were just three TV networks: CBS, NBC, and ABC. So the whole world could see the same police dogs. The same Bull Connor and his white tank. Now you've got narrow-casting. The media is all fragmented. It's so hard to get people to focus in a sustained way.”

People World Way Hard Whole Hands Three Ability White Issues Focus Media Dog Missing Tvs Advantage Police Whole World Activist Casting Bulls Tanks Fragmented Nbc New Media

Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“Every song is completely different. Sometimes they come like a lump of clay and it's your job to chip away and find out what's in the center. Sometimes it comes like swimming fish, and you have to follow it and see where it leads. Sometimes it comes totally fragmented.”

Different Sometimes Jobs Song Fishes Swimming Chips Clay Lumps Fragmented

Author:Brett Dennen

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