Shattered Quotes
370 Shattered quotes by 293 unique authors
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Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
— Helen Keller
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There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken…
— Evel Knievel
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When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.
— Dennis Quaid
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It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making…
— Jerry Saltz
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Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea blue tears into the books…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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The Red Poppy The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me. I have a lord in heaven…
— Louise Glück
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Each of us will have our own Fridays—those days when the universe itself seems shattered and the shards of our world lie littered about us…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not…
— John Edward Williams
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Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out.…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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If she possessed any memory whatsoever of the days when she'd been whole, her shattered recollections were scattered across the darkscape of her mind in…
— Dean Koontz
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With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you -…
— Rajneesh
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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you…
— Alexandre Dumas
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Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystalize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are…
— Gloria Naylor
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Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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The more isolated and disconnected we are, the more shattered and distorted our self-identity. We are not healthy when we are alone. We find ourselves…
— Erwin McManus
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Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when the people reaches…
— Jose Rizal
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The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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I hate those endless descriptions of a heroine's physical attributes . . . it really bothers me how in books it seems like the only…
— E. Lockhart
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When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a…
— Margaret Atwood
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It is sad to see a young man's fondest hopes and dreams shattered when the rose-colured veil is plucked away and he sees the actions…
— Mikhail Lermontov
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I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its…
— Jodi Picoult
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Glass shattered, vampires roared, humans screamed. The noise battered at me, just as the tidal wave of scores of brains at high gear washed over…
— Charlaine Harris
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For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear…
— Michael Ondaatje
Who Wrote These Shattered Quotes
293 authors contributed a total of 370 Shattered Quotes, led by these top contributors: