Best Shattering Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“On my bedside table is a snow globe with a winterscape inside. Church, park bench, girl standing shin-deep in snow. Tip the snow globe over and a blizzard of slow snow falls over church and bench and girl. What is it about snow globes that makes them fascinating and terrifying at once? My heart lurches at the thought of the snow-globe girl waiting endlessly, with only the hope of a new snow blizzard to settle on her mantle when the next person tips her snow-globe world over. Not a gust of breeze may ruffle her skirt, not a bird may perch atop the steeple. The only way out of a snow globe is by shattering the glass dome that is its sky.”

Waiting Snow Shattering Blizzard Glass Snow Globes

Book:Kari

Source: Kari

“I like having sex with Vale,” I blurted. Or maybe not. He froze. The sudden shock of heat in the way he stared at me tunnelled right through to my toes. He growled out a sound of desire that belonged more to an animal than an unshakable man like Vale. “That one was very personal.” Helki was flexing his fingers, trying not to turn them into fists as he swivelled a dark glower to Vale. “I liked sex with you too, Beast.” I applauded my own confidence as I managed to keep a straight face. “It was shattering." Andel groaned, his head falling into his hands. “Tell me she didn’t just make a spinal injury joke.”

Sex Joke Lol Pun Shattering Bruh Spinal Injury

Book:A World of Lost Words

Source: A World of Lost Words

“... everything I was shattering into stars and galaxies and comets, nothing but pure, shining joy.”

Stars Sarah J Maas Feyre Feyre Archeron Rhysand Rhys Comets Shattering A Court Of Frost And Starlight Galaxies

Book:A Court of Frost and Starlight

Source: A Court of Frost and Starlight

“with limits, you have to know which ones you are supposed to accept, and which ones you must surpass. Do not waste your time trying to find the knowledge of the universe, that is Gods place and you cannot surpass it. Do spend time getting better at what you are good at and trying out what you are bad at. Limits are either for protection, or for shattering. There is no 'in between'. If there was, I highly doubt the world would be like it is today.”

God Motivational Universe Knowledge Acceptance Limits Protection Shattering In Between Surpass

Author:Unicornfarts2000

“A ruffly strip of well-seethed bacon delivers a clean crack that in Japan is called kari kari, as opposed to shaki shaki (a gushy bite, as of an apple right off the tree), saku saku (a fracture cushioned by richness, as found in buttery cookies and chicharrón--- pork skins dropped in hot oil, where they expand like clouds), gari gari (a hard crunch, like ice, that taxes the jaw), bari bari (the kind of delicate shattering epitomized by a rice cracker), and pari pari (the even more evanescent shattering achieved by the sheerest-cut potato chips).”

Taste Phrases Feeling Bites Japanese Shattering Crunchy

Book:The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2024

Source: The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2024

“Many think they play the last act. With life in turmoil, they seem to live the setup of a shattering countdown. To an insistent appeal for crucial answers, they only receive evasive responses or killing silence. But since the banks of their patience are bursting, an intractable cataclysm disturbs their interior world. Yet, this disruption might allow them to restore their emotional power by cleansing the oppressive environment and purifying the air that they breathe. ("Corporeal prison".)”

Air Breathe Disruption Cleansing Shattering Purifying Cataclysm Emotional Power Countdown Insistent

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“Am I shattered enough already, or am I shattering? (And when do I start to build?)”

Enough Shattered Start Build Shattering When Already I Felt A Funeral In My Brain

Book:I Felt a Funeral, In My Brain

Source: I Felt a Funeral, In My Brain

“The whole thing, the way it all happened, was shattering. And what it shattered most of all was some conception I'd had of myself, some wholeness.”

Identity Trauma Iris Murdoch Sense Of Self Shattering The Nice And The Good Loss Of Self Cataclysmic

Book:The Nice and the Good

Source: The Nice and the Good

“People called it heartbreak, but Evangeline thought that losing someone you loved broke more than just a heart. When she had lost her first love, it had shattered her entire world.”

First Love Shattered Shattering When The World Caves In

Book:The Ballad of Never After

Source: The Ballad of Never After

“Not every silence breaks beautifully, like a delicate melody. There are silences that shatter into countless pieces, each shard a fragment of unspoken words, a soundless explosion of feelings.”

Silence Dreams Heartache Goodbye Shattering

Author:Shahid Hussain Raja

“Just thinking about that, if that were to really happen, if an alien were to come down and really abduct you, how terrifying and how earth-shattering would that be? Your whole world is just destroyed. God is destroyed. It's kind of a fascinating thing to think about.”

Ifs Thinking World Kind Whole Happens Earth Down And Whole World Destroyed Aliens Fascinating Shattering

Author:Evan Peters

“But I'm tone deaf - window-shattering tone deaf. I can't sing for the life of me. I can't sing or dance, so no remake of 'Grease' for me!”

I Can Window Tone Deaf Remakes Grease Shattering

Author:Dev Patel

“The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.”

World War States United United States Generations War Of The Worlds Vietnam World War Ii World War I Shattering

Author:Richard Holbrooke

“What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?”

Firsts Doe Happiness Joy Break Illusion Breaths Storm Mortals Altars Joy And Happiness Icy Shattering Dispelling

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence.”

Return Shadow Casts Absence Flesh Farewell Shattering

Book:The Blind Assassin: A Novel

Source: The Blind Assassin: A Novel

“One can make one's life a complete misery, worrying about burglaries and shipwrecks, but ask anyone, anyone you know ... earth-shattering disasters and fabulous inheritances all seems to take place exclusively in the newspapers.”

Knows Seems Earth Asks Worry Misery Disaster Newspapers Fabulous Inheritance Shattering Shipwreck Burglary

Book:The rehearsal or Love punished

Source: The rehearsal or Love punished

“When people say it's a funny thing about them, you will probably be able to control your hysterics. They are only getting ready to announce the shattering fact that they don't like something. And it's not going to be something that's really quite awful, like suttee or apartheid; it's going to be something small.”

People Facts Able Ready Awful Funny Things Like Something Apartheid Shattering

Book:I Didn't Come Here to Argue

Source: I Didn't Come Here to Argue

“Chantal's only ruse ... was her shattering simplicity. While a weak man or an imposter is always more complicated than the problem he is trying to solve, and thinking to encompass his adversary, merely keeps prowling interminably around himself, the heroic nature will throw itself into the heart of the danger to turn it to its own use, just as captured artillery is turned about and aimed at the backs of the fleeing enemy.”

Thinking Men Trying Heart Use Problem Turns Enemy Danger Weak Simplicity Complicated Solve Heroic Adversaries Captured Fleeing Shattering Imposter Artillery Weak Man Prowling

Author:Georges Bernanos

“Sex finds us. Sex sees through us. That's why it's so shattering. It strips us of appearances.”

Sex Appearance Shattering

Book:Cosmopolis

Source: Cosmopolis

“The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is dizzyingly brilliant. Mark Leyner is a hyperkinetic shaman, who flies the banner of rum and candy and writes like a one-eyed feral bandit. His new book is supremely original, delirious and synapse-shattering.”

Writing Book Mark Originals Brilliant Sugar Candy Banner New Books Shattering Bandits Rum Delirious

Author:John Cusack

“Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A full blown storm where everything changes. The sky goes through four days in an hour, the trees wail, little animals skitter in the mud and everything gets dark and goes completely wild. But it is really God - playing music in his favourite cathedral in heaven - shattering stained glass - playing a gigantic organ - thundering on the keys - perfect harmony - perfect joy.”

Source: DAYBREAK

“The child who is uprooted begins to recognize that what he builds within himself is what will endure, what will withstand shattering experiences.”

Children Endure Shattering

Author:Anais Nin

“Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.”

Firsts Silence Oppression Silence Is Spills Shattering

Book:The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism

Source: The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism

“The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused Him of being a bore - on the contrary; they thought Him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround Him with an atmosphere of tedium.”

People Has Beens Jesus Left Christ Justice Generations Personality Safe Jesus Christ Contrary Atmosphere Surround Bores Accused Shattering Tedium Dynamic Personality

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“Soccer has given me a place to express myself, fully and openly. To not be shy. To feel. To be crazy. To try things I might not try. To be honest in relationships. To make mistakes and realize that they're not life-shattering.”

Feels Trying Might Given Realizing Mistake Crazy Honest Being Honest Soccer Making Mistakes Shy Being Crazy Shattering

Author:Brandi Chastain

“Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance, superiority, and self-importance. It requires acknowledgment of responsibility for the nature and quality of each of our own lives, our own inner lives as well as the life of the world. Truth, inwardly accepted, humbling truth, makes one vulnerable. You can't be right, self-righteous, and truthful at the same time.”

Source: Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons

“As iconic a band as Metallica has become, I think sometimes we forget just how raw they were in the beginning of their career, and to a 15-year-old kid like me, it was just shattering. I mean, it was beyond.”

Thinking Years Mean Sometimes Kids Forget Careers Band Like Me Iconic Shattering Metallica

Author:Corey Taylor

“What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.”

Matter Stories Earth Importance Internals Things Change Shattering

Author:Sarah Monette

“I don't know what a person does that does not have a relationship with God. When he goes to the doctor and the doctors says, 'Hey, you've got less than two months to live and there's nothing we can do for you.' Who do they turn to when you're given something that earth shattering?”

Knows Persons Doe Two Earth Turns Given Can Do Months Doctors Hey Relationship With God Two Months Hey You Shattering

Author:Si Robertson

“This is the first time in history that a war has involved the whole world, and also it may last many years more; this thought is soul-shattering for all of us as human beings. It is horrible to think that the crimes committed by this one man Hitler have these many years been destroying the lives of hundreds of thousands and millions, and one would despair entirely were it not certain that the majority, the innumerable majority which opposes him openly or secretly, will succeed in wiping out once and for all him and his.”

Source: Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942

“I respect my parents' opinion very much. No matter how old you are, what your parents think is very important. If they like your boyfriend or if they like some work you've done. And if they don't, it's more shattering than anybody else telling you, because they're the most honest.”

Ifs Thinking Important Matter Done Parent Opinion Honest Like You Old You Shattering Your Boyfriend

Author:Olivia Newton-John

“I liken an affair to the shattering of a Waterford crystal vase. You can glue it back together, but it will never be the same again.”

Together Affair Crystals Adultery Back Together Glue Shattering Vases

Author:John M. Gottman

“I discovered for myself and by myself that there is no self to realize -- that's the realization I am talking about. It comes as a shattering blow. It hits you like a thunderbolt. You have invested everything in one basket, self-realization, and, in the end, suddenly you discover that there is no self to discover, no self to realize -- and you say to yourself "What the hell have I been doing all my life?!" That blasts you.”

Ends Self Realizing Talking Hell Blow Self Realization Realization Blast Baskets Shattering Thunderbolts

Book:The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti

Source: The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti

“There are really only two stories the coal industry tells: "Coal keeps the lights on, and by implication, you'll live in medieval, soul-shattering darkness if you don't let us do whatever the hell we want with the landscape and drinking water you public health, because there's no alternative."”

Ifs Want Two Soul Stories Light Water Darkness Hell Industry Drinking Alternatives Landscape Coal Medieval Implications Public Health Drinking Water Shattering

Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“[2015] it's a time that there's a clash of ideologies, similar to the Cold War. I think that a story like this has been waiting to be told, and I think it's a fresh look at the whole earth-shattering business of the collapse of the Soviet Union.”

Thinking Looks Has Beens War Whole Stories Earth Waiting Cold Unions Ideology Soviet Collapse Cold War Soviet Union Clash Shattering

Author:Steven Knight

“Dogbert gazing at night sky No matter how bad the day is, the stars are always there. Dilbert Actually, many of them burned out years ago, but their light is just now reaching earth. DogbertThank you for shattering my comfortable misconception. DilbertIt's the miracle of science.”

Years Matter Light Earth Science Night Stars Sky Comfortable Years Ago Accounts Miracle Reaching Burned Misconception Night Sky Gazing Shattering Burned Out Dilbert

Author:Scott Adams

“We take life for granted, sleepwalking until a shattering event knocks us awake. Zen says, don't wait until the car accident, the cancer diagnosis, or the death of a loved one to get your priorities straight. Do it now.”

Waiting Car Events Cancer Accidents Priorities Granted Awake Loved Ones Death Of A Loved One Diagnosis Shattering Car Accident Sleepwalking Cancer Diagnosis Life For Granted Taking Life For Granted

Author:Philip Toshio Sudo

“God is discovered entirely through creation - the brilliance of a sunset, the powerful roar of a waterfall, the symphony of sounds you hear in the heart of the forest, or the vastness of space and its countless stars. God is the mastermind behind all matter - every earth shattering scientific discovery and mystery that is yet to be unraveled was dreamed and enacted by God.”

“What is the quality of your intent? Certain people have a way of saying things that shake us at the core. Even when the words do not seem harsh or offensive, the impact is shattering. What we could be experiencing is the intent behind the words. When we intend to do good, we do. When we intend to do harm, it happens. What each of us must come to realize is that our intent always comes through.”

People Way Seems Happens Certain Realizing Behinds Quality Respect Impact Harm Core Shakes Offensive Harsh Shattering I Respect You

Author:Thurgood Marshall

“I think that the resistance against Darwin is not just the difficulty of seeing the power of a spectacularly beautiful explanation: it is the fear of realizing the extraordinary power that such an explanation has in shattering rests of old world views.”

Thinking World Beautiful Realizing Views Seeing Difficulty Extraordinary Resistance Explanation World View Old World Shattering

Author:Carlo Rovelli

“You may never have heard of Joseph Overton and his proverbial window but you most certainly have heard the Republican presidential campaign in 2015 year not just flinging the window open but shattering all its glass.”

Years May Heard Republican Window Glasses Campaigns Presidential Shattering Proverbial Presidential Campaign

Author:Rachel Maddow

“Just saw an orthodox Jewish kid do 3 pull-ups on the scaffolding. Shattering the previous record.”

Kids Records Saws Orthodox Shattering Pull Ups Scaffolding

Author:Gary Gulman

“My favorite moments are when the bass falls in the pocket with the drums, the guitar is on top just slicing it, and the melody is scraping across like a sidewinder shattering through the monitor. It's just, ahhh, I love it! That's the jones, the hit, the buzz right there. It gets me off.”

Moments Fall Guitar My Favorite Pockets Melody Bass Buzz Shattering Scraping

Author:Nikki Sixx

“My dream as a child was to play with a bass player like Ray Brown, who played with the Oscar Peterson Trio. The feeling I had listening to his work was almost carnal, so to actually play for him was earth-shattering for me.”

Children Play Feelings Dream Earth Player Listening Brown Rays Oscars Bass Shattering Bass Players Trios

Author:Diana Krall

“Successful people are able to rise above crises by relaxing no matter what the external situation. Their belief in themselves, the strength of their self-image is impenetrable armor, which protects them against shattering events.”

People Self Matter Able Belief Situation Successful Events Protect No Matter What Crisis Successful People Rise Above Armor Shattering

Book:Power Slf Img Psch

Source: Power Slf Img Psch

“The co-opting of the environmental movement by the petroleum industry had a shattering effect. It crushed nascent biofuel businesses, killed research, cut off critical funding, stopped the building of new infrastructure, dissolved powerful alliances and seeded America with doubt over our ability to free ourselves from petroleum.”

America Ability Powerful Doubt Cutting Effects Movement Building Industry Research Environmental Critical Infrastructure Funding Crushed Alliances Shattering Petroleum Biofuels

Author:Josh Tickell

“The Task Force didn't produce any earth-shattering findings but it suggests that this matter is on the president's radar screen.”

Matter Earth Force President Produce Findings Tasks Screens Radar Shattering Task Forces

Author:Julianne Malveaux

“The international repercussions were shattering to some extent - there is no intention to repeat operations of such kind in the future.[Viktor] Yanukovych's electoral victory clearly demonstrated that there are no pro-Russian politicians in the Ukraine, just Ukrainian politicians.”

Kind Victory Politician Intention International Operations Repeats Ukraine Repercussions Shattering Ukrainian

Author:Garry Kasparov

“I haven't invented anything earth-shattering. If I could be said to have one noteworthy ability compared with the average person, it's that I have a keen interest in reading the direction and timing of paradigm shifts.”

Ifs Persons Said Earth Reading Interest Ability Havens Average If I Could Timing Paradigm Average Person Shattering Paradigm Shift

Author:Masayoshi Son

“What is the quality of your intent?”

Quality Respect Intention Shattering I Respect You

Author:Thurgood Marshall

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