Broken Quotes - Page 23

If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

You can victimize yourself by wallowing around in your own past.

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Once Im in the ring, Im there to win no matter what it takes. Nobody and nothing can stop me, my will cannot be broken

I cannot speculate on what our cluttered mind will save- sleepy Sundays, or a nosebleed after love. I know only the dying heart needs the nourishment of memory to live beyond too many winters.

Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.

Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it's difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will.

Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable and cannot be broken.

Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.

There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and broken grass-blades trembling in small air-movements they could not feel. 'Not a bird!' said Sam mournfully. 'No, no birds,' said Gollum. 'Nice birds!' He licked his teeth. 'No birds here. There are snakeses, wormses, things in the pools. Lots of things, lots of nasty things. No birds,' he ended sadly. Sam looked at him with distaste.

I've been heartbroken. I've broken hearts. That's part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.

The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.

I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.

As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are impoverished and broken and realize that, if we were not, we would be God. The art of gentleness toward ourselves leads to being gentle with others -- and is a natural prerequisite for our presence to God in prayer.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

For you know only a heap of broken images

You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

As a broken microphone cannot broadcast a message, so a restless mind cannot transmit prayers to God

No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.