Best Shattered Wisdom
370 Shattered quotes by 293 unique authors
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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When illusions are shattered by truth, talent is set free.
— Lian Hearn
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After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for his pouch, and there was…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I learned about these…
— Parker J. Palmer
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Fighting for survival in a shattered world... the truth is her only hope.
— Veronica Roth
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When I'm with you, my world is complete. When I touch you, I understand the meaning of life. When I lost you, I completely shattered.…
— Abbi Glines
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When your heart is shattered into a million pieces, all you can do is try to keep holding on. You breathe. You try to fall…
— Susane Colasanti
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The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned rock to lava, turned wood to charcoal, transmuted water to steam, made sand and silica into green…
— Ray Bradbury
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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
— Arthur Rimbaud
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We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.
— Anais Nin
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Bruce, you’re an ugly and silly old man. You’re very possibly an alcoholic and God knows what else. You’re the type of sad case who…
— Irvine Welsh
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Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.
— George R. R. Martin
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Cold as winter, strong as stone; She faced the darkness all alone. A silver goddess; a reflection. A mirage; a recollection. No return; no turning…
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
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Alec looked down at the shattered pieces in disbelief. “You BROKE my PHONE.” Jace shrugged. “Guys don’t let other guys keep calling other guys. Okay,…
— Cassandra Clare
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IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids out to sea,where…
— Rumi
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For a moment, they all stood staring at each other. Then Holly shattered the stillness by throwing herself at Angela. "God, Angie!" she exclaimed, arms…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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That you can know what i have in me and still want me as much as i want you. i go to sleep every night…
— Sylvia Day
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Everything had shattered. The fact that it was all still there — the walls and the chairs and the children’s pictures on the walls —…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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He saved the world, but he shattered mine.
— Margaret Stohl
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Ethan thought he was doing the right thing. He knew it was crazy. And he didn’t want to go, but he had to anyway. Ethan…
— Kami Garcia
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It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated...
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Everyone always says that love was enough. It wasn't. Not when your soul has been shattered.
— Abbi Glines
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bent like the branches of a tree broken like the pieces of my heart cracked like the seventeenth moon shattered like the glass in the…
— Kami Garcia
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I held his gaze. I could see the storm in his eyes. I knew he was confused. I could see the fear. Then there was…
— Abbi Glines
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Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one…
— Paullina Simons
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