Best Broken Quotes

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

The human emotional system can be broken down into roughly two elements: fear and love. Love is of the soul. Fear is of the personality.

Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.

I have been bent and broken, but I hope, into a better shape.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

Silence is worse when you know it won’t be broken.

When your heart is broken, when your heart has cracks in it, it lets the light in.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open.

Wounds.
Broken places.
Possibility.
Change.
Steps toward holiness.
Imperfect progress.
The hurt in those who hurt me—their underbellies.
Grace.
Love.
Me looking alot more like Jesus than I did before.
And to discover through all this seeing—being unglued isn’t all that bad.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. Continue to share your heart with people even if it’s been broken.

A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water

I’m packed with broken glass and memories and it all hurts.

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.

Where once stood the steadfast pines, great, beautiful, sweet, my hand touched raw, moist stumps. All about lay broken branches, like the antlers of stricken deer. The fragrant, piled-up sawdust swirled and tumbled about me. An unreasoning resentment flashed through me at the ruthless destruction of the beauty that I love.

True, the movement for woman’s rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.

Broken hearts are for assholes, are you an asshole?

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

It changes you a little bit every time you either break someone’s heart or get your heart broken.

Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.

I’m not going anywhere. I hope. It’s been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.

It isn’t enough for your heart to break because everybody’s heart is broken now.

it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.

You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what’s broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it’s broken, you are automatically disqualified.

When you see someone you love with somebody else, your heart kind of falls to the ground.

Married men live longer. Yes. And an indoor cat also lives longer. It’s a furball with a broken spirit, that can only look out on a world it can never enjoy. But it does technically live longer.

The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are not locked, and when they come to one that cannot be broken into, they will withdraw and invite you to dine genially that same evening.

Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.

It’s not a cry you can hear at night. It’s not somebody who has seen the light. It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah.

In the broken places, the light shines through.

Maybe there’s a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.