Broken Quotes - Page 40
![While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.](http://cdn.quoteddaily.com/images/samuel-johnson/while-grief-is-fresh-every-attempt-to-divert-only-irritates-you-must-wait-till-it-be-digested-and-then-amusement.jpg)
James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.24
Everyone is broken a little, I think, and the most broken of all are those who pretend they are not.
Peter De Vries (2014). “The Tunnel of Love: A Novel”, p.85, University of Chicago Press
I’m not just taking trips down memory lane; I’m broken down on it.
Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.15, Simon and Schuster
I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.
Mary Wollstonecraft, Sir Charles ALDIS (1803). “A Defence of the character and conduct of ... Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin ... In a series of letters to a lady. MS. notes [by Sir C. Aldis].”, p.127
Mark Nepo (2014). “The Endless Practice: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be”, p.195, Simon and Schuster
Louise Penny (2011). “Bury Your Dead: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.325, Macmillan
Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company
John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.180, University of Virginia Press