Shattered Quotes

“It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Kiss of Deception

“A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside.”
― Audre Lorde

“Instead of saying, "I'm damaged, I'm broken, I have trust issues" say "I'm healing, I'm rediscovering myself, I'm starting over.”
― Horacio Jones

“This planet is a broken bone that didn’t set right, a hundred pieces of crystal glued together. We’ve been shattered and reconstructed, told to make an effort every single day to pretend we still function the way we’re supposed to. But it’s a lie, it’s all a lie.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“The storm is out there and every one of us must eventually face the storm. When the storm comes, pray that it will shake you to your roots and break you wide-open. Being broken open by the storm is your only hope. When you are broken open you get to discover for the first time what is inside you. Some people never get to see what is inside them; what beauty, what strength, what truth and love. They were never broken open by the storm. So, don't run from your pain — run into your pain. Let life's storm shatter you.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“A lame creature, a cripple like myself, has no right to love. How should I, broken, shattered being that I am, be anything but a burden to you, when to myself I am an object of disgust, of loathing. A creature such as I, I know, has no right to love, and certainly no right to be loved. It is for such a creature to creep away into a corner and die and cease to make other people's lives a burden with her presence.”
― Stefan Zweig , Beware of Pity

“She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way to put it back together.”
― Anne Lamott, Crooked Little Heart

“See, if you analyze stuff long enough, you’ll eventually break ideas down to the quantum level where nothing makes sense and there’s no longer any meaning to anything. And then when you try to put it all back together again, you realize the pieces just don’t fit anymore. Worse, you realize that the pieces never fit in the first place. And then you’re left with a heap of broken ideas and beliefs that are shattered beyond repair. That’s reality, and that’s what I write about.”
― P.S. Baber, Cassie Draws the Universe

“Heart of stone will be shattered.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“I'm a piece of glass with a crack spreading across me, spidering off in all directions, waiting to shatter me completely.”
― Shari Cross, Masked

“That’s what she was, broken pottery, patched up with gold, the gold shimmering through the places where she had been cracked open, and left bleeding.”
― Kiran Manral, Missing, Presumed Dead

“Strength is about pulling yourself together, even after you’ve been shattered into a thousand pieces. Falling is merely the first movement we take before rising”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

“Oh
The way you broke her heart
And shattered her life

With your empty promises
And biggest lies

The trust is gone and
The hope is lost for ever

The feeling of emptiness
And the pain of being alone
Never leaves her heart

She is living a life
Of heartache and despair
For you broke her heart
And shattered her life”
― Jyoti Patel, The Curved Rainbow

“In some ways it began when I heard her singing
her voice twinning with my own
Her Voice was like a portrait of her soul
Wild as a fire, sharp as a shattered glass
Sweet and clean as clover”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“Tamsin gave a strangled cry, sweeping her arm across her cluttered tabletop, relishing the chaos and clatter of her belongings tumbling to the stone floor. A crystal splintered. Her mug shattered, scattering chunks of hardened clay across the room. Loose papers floated into the fire, the flames devouring the dark ink until the words no longer existed.”
― Adrienne Tooley, Sweet & Bitter Magic

“My restless heart
Is now trying to find you
In all the places we went

When I kept you so near to me
Why did you choose to go far”
― Jyoti Patel, The Curved Rainbow

“Tuesday? My whole concept of the future had crumpled.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“you keep telling me that you are broken
but I am the one who is shattered into pieces”
― Avijeet Das

“I don't have the heart to leave shattered pieces where they lay.”
― K. Weikel, Replay: Reboot

“Have you ever died before? It’s a serious question. When the illusion of self is shattered, you simply cease to be. Though it may not seem that way to others, you know when it is true. You can feel it, a stranger in your own body, an imposter…and nothing is the same ever again
- Narrator ~ Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice”
― Tameem Antoniades

“The reason that I write quotes like I do is because my heart is shattered on the inside.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“He milled about his garden, lost in the thoughts of his dear Hariom's whereabouts, unmindfully crushing under his feet the fallen leaves of his darling trees. Why does it become inevitable sometimes to walk upon your shattered dreams to carry out your duty, he ruminated.”
― Anurag Shrivastava, The Web of Karma

“Her blue eyes wavered as she blinked.

He would never forget her shattered emotion at that moment.

From her once shining heart, her once gleaming blue eyes—something had died.

The blue eyes were now filled with unbearable disappointment and despair.

It was at that night he bore witness to the fallen hope of his beloved someone—said hope died in his arms.”
― Sakurase Ayaka (桜瀬彩香), 長い夜の国と最後の舞踏会 1　～ひとりぼっちの公爵令嬢と真夜中の精霊～

“But I believe sometimes in life someone's path intersects with the person they need most at any given moment. They walk together for a little while, sharing the road for as long or as short a time as they need each other.”
― Lee Winter

“In the dictionary of those who do not expect anything, there is no expression like ‘shattered expectations.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions

“Expectations and faith can go hand in hand or they can run counter to each other. It all depends on where our expectations are placed. Are they placed in the outcome or are they placed in who He is? You see, if our expectations are anchored in the outcome, we will be disappointed and lose faith when the outcome does not match up with what we expected. God’s goodness will come into question, and we will be in danger of losing faith in Him.”
― Mark Allen Moore, Shattered: Finding Hope and Purpose in the Midst of Disappointment

“I am horrible at letting go, until I do... and then I let go hard enough to crumble everything around me, including myself.”
― Stephanie Bennett-Henry

“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.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“People are like glass.
Some you can see straight through; others shine bright lights and iridescent colours everywhere they go. Some you look at and see parts of yourself reflected, and you look into some and see nothing but darkness.
Some people magnify so that everything around them seems bigger anc more beautiful, while others can make even the largest things seem infinitely smaller.
People can be cracked or chipped, fragile or scratched, and still stay in one piece: even more precious and loved for all of their broken parts.
But sometimes ... people shatter.”
― Holly Smale, Forever Geek