100 Quotes About Broken

Broken quotes have been a common theme in many works of art throughout history. Some say that they are from the “heart” or a symbol of human failure. Others believe they are a metaphor for perseverance and the power of love to transcend even the most devastating of trials. Whatever your opinion, broken quotes have been one of the most important themes in literature, history, and pop culture.

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To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God. Jocelyn Soriano
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Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes! Jocelyn Soriano
But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken,...
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But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed. Unknown
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So I am not a broken heart. I am not the weight I lost or miles or ran and I am not the way I slept on my doorstep under the bare sky in smell of tears and whiskey because my apartment was empty and if I were to be this empty I wanted something solid to sleep on. Like concrete. I am not this year and I am not your fault. I am muscles building cells, a little every day, because they broke that day, but bones are stronger once they heal and I am smiling to the bus driver and replacing my groceries once a week and I am not sitting for hours in the shower anymore. I am the way a life unfolds and bloom and seasons come and go and I am the way the spring always finds a way to turn even the coldest winter into a field of green and flowers and new life. I am not your fault. . Charlotte Eriksson
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My father gave me a ruined boy to compensate for the fact that he does not love me. The boy is fragile, broken–broke himself–broke everything. I asked him why he did it. He said because the world was unlivable. He said it was unlovable, but I think he meant himself. I think he meant that loneliness is sometimes painful. I curl against him, tuck my head beneath his chin and listen to his heart. It says stay and wait. It says regret. He knows what it is to want love, a love so fierce you grow roots. I hear his heart say please. He went looking for angels and found me instead, girl of the sorrows, sad but not sorry. I waited for a sign, a star to fall. He reached for a knife and drew branches. Brenna Yovanoff
It is our wounds that create in us a desire...
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It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams. Jocelyn Soriano
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I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken. But I didn't really mind, because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is. Lana Del Rey
She made broken look beautifuland strong look invincible. She walked...
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She made broken look beautifuland strong look invincible. She walked with the Universeon her shoulders and made itlook like a pair of wings. Ariana Dancu
They'll say you are bador perhaps you are mador at...
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They'll say you are bador perhaps you are mador at least you should stay undercover. Your mind must be bareif you would dareto think you can love more than one lover. David Rovics
We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us--that...
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We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us--that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect. Emilio Estevez
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I’ll tell you another secret, this one for your own good. You may think the past has something to tell you. You may think that you should listen, should strain to make out its whispers, should bend over backward, stoop down low to hear its voice breathed up from the ground, from the dead places. You may think there’s something in it for you, something to understand or make sense of. But I know the truth: I know from the nights of Coldness. I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind and the gibberish of trees rubbing together, trying to decipher some code, trying to piece together what was broken. It’s hopeless. The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone. Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging at your back and running its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do–the only thing– is run. . Lauren Oliver
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Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions. Criss Jami
I wear a necklace of hope with pearly beads. When...
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I wear a necklace of hope with pearly beads. When I met you, it broke, and the beads spilled all over the floor, into the gutters. Karen Quan
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Endings are abstruse, mystic and unreal. They are but depleted beginnings purposed to be substituted with newer ones. A transition of outlook and time, similar to our differing moods before and after slumber. Before the act we witness an exhaustion, a sulkiness but on gaining consciousness, we’re rejuvenated and good humored. The wakefulness is the new beginning whereas the tension the disturbance we perceive each night is the weariness of the beginnings, of each day. So there never really is an end, all that there are are beginnings. Beginnings which are promising, which offer hope, which have a new leash on life, which neither denounce nor belittle rather soothe and console by reconstructing the broken pieces of yesterday, mending them and reinforcing them with courage and beauty like never before. . Chirag Tulsiani
I was moving around with my imperfect, broken pieces until...
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I was moving around with my imperfect, broken pieces until you came across and stitched my flaws with your words. Jasleen Kaur Gumber
God is my strength and my defense. When I am...
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God is my strength and my defense. When I am weak, he makes me strong. When I am broken, he makes me whole. Amaka Imani Nkosazana
There comes a point where you no longer care if...
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There comes a point where you no longer care if there’s a light at the end of the tunnel or not. You’re just sick of the tunnel. Ranata Suzuki
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She walks, on the streets, with a face that, doesn't belong. It smiles more than, many put together, whole day long. Her heart misfit, a little chipped. And she likes to, call it once broken, but now stitched. Jasleen Kaur Gumber
I had to break to pieces, so I could reassemble...
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I had to break to pieces, so I could reassemble even stronger. Scott Stabile
Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes...
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Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you. Rob Liano
I still need you. Killer, boyfriend, friend, whatever… I need...
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I still need you. Killer, boyfriend, friend, whatever… I need you in my life…if for nothing else, to show me that it’s OK to be broken. It’s OK for things not to be OK. S.R. Crawford
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Relationships may become wrecked by a quirky syndrome: the “Ain't broke, don't fix”-syndrome. When there is no interaction in the neural network and no breakthrough into the mind but only a shallow skin experience, living together might be very torturous. If a heartfelt bond has not been molded, nothing can be broken and thus nothing needs to be fixed. (“I wonder what went wrong.”) Erik Pevernagie
The actuality that the heart does not want to feel,...
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The actuality that the heart does not want to feel, doesn't negate the certitude that it once felt and will still feel. Itohan Eghide
The pain is real. Flowing as a brook beneath my...
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The pain is real. Flowing as a brook beneath my flesh. I am broken, and yet, I still breathe. E.M. Benton
And then things would be fine. Then I'd be fine.
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And then things would be fine. Then I'd be fine. Sarah J. Maas
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But even a vessel pulsates, beats and pumps in ecstasy and in rage! I wonder are the way we are because we are trying to protect ourselves from the “monsters” not realizing this fear that we are harboring inside us is turning us into goblins and ghouls ourselves? Not even a heart caged inside of ribs can be protected. Who can really be to blame for your broken heart? In-turn we find our own vices , our own ways to cope, ways that we petrify our bodies our lives in such a fashion so we can stop and notice the stars sparkling in the sky everything and everyone that embodies love YOUR LOVE… and every spec dancing in our own light, specs we failed to see because of our own faults. QuietStormPoet
Love?! When a piece of broke heart hits you.
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Love?! When a piece of broke heart hits you. Ljupka Cvetanova
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I am a lover of words and tragically beautiful things, poor timing and longing, and all things with soul, and I wonder if that means I am entirely broken, or if those are the things that have been keeping me whole. Nicole Lyons
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He lifts my chin and looks at me. “I don't want to break you, Lou-Lou.” He leans his forehead against mine. “But sometimes you have to break in order to be fixed. And if you trust me enough to fall apart, I swear... I'll put you back together again. Ashley Jade
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The most dangerous people in the world are not the tiny minority instigating evil acts, but those who do the acts for them — for a paycheck. To act without a conscience, but for a paycheck, makes anyone a dangerous animal. The devil would be powerless if he couldn’t entice people to do his work. So as long as money continues to seduce the hungry, the hopeless, the broken, the greedy, and the needy, there will always be war between people. . Suzy Kassem
You write poems with your fingertips And I keep listening...
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You write poems with your fingertips And I keep listening to the songs written on my skin By some distant dream, similar words But the verses never meet... Sanhita Baruah
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She awaits the rain like a writer embraces metaphors, A drizzle isn't for the child who dances in the storm. Of rain that washes away the petrichor it brings, A downpour of a hail of bullets, and she calls it spring. Sanhita Baruah
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I've heard you say so many a time That I know just the right words to say, just the right lines to rhyme... Today it's been 7 years since we last met I have learnt to say just the wrong words, just the lines you hate.... Sanhita Baruah
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One day, it will all make sense, it will all be revealed. Until then, we learn to live and accept our shadows, our Déjà vu's, our dreams, our intuition that takes us to places that our minds never conceived, our bodies only perceived and our souls gladly remembered. Conversations and experiences amuse me, for I am experimenting with my feelings in ways that I can only do down here. Language makes up for a very interesting, yet bizarre way of putting thoughts into spoken form for the sound to move on in other peoples' ears, but every language, every sound, every word carries with it a long history, a deep culture and the souls of the many people who have previously used it throughout the centuries. Our hearts give us direction, hope and the passion to keep moving forward. But what we do when they're frozen, broken, torn apart by an unhealthy way of living is what gives us new strength to push forward or kills us completely. Deep inside, we feed the entities that empower the fight between our internal demons and angels. We feed them with our thoughts, our emotions, our self-talk and the external talk that we lower our shields to at times. Whether good or bad, this brings about a change internally and at times there isn't much we can do to protect ourselves. At times, we need to let things be and go along with it. Of course, we're all worried, stressed, confused and lacking direction at times and we're in the same way at peace, stable and walking in the right direction once we get things sorted. Give it some time, give it some light, give it some love. You're not very far away. . Unknown
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Sometimes what is said to be a gift may appear more of a curse only because the greatest gifts of all are the gifts that have enough disruptive force to break us out of everything that’s breaking us. And God loves us far too much not to give us exactly those kinds of gifts. Craig D. Lounsbrough
There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.
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There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness. Shannon L. Alder
Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from...
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Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS) Jeanette Winterson
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The beauty of being shattered is how the shards become our character and our marks of distinction. This is how we are refined by our pain. When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again. The storm gives us the gift of our defining choices. You will be a different person after the storm, because the storm will heal you from your perfection. People who stay perfect and unblemished never really get to live fully or deeply. You will not be the same after the storms of life; you will be stronger, wiser and more alive than ever before!. Bryant McGill
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Today, I saw an owl with broken eyes. A blind owl with eyes that look like a dark night filled with bright stars. I used to think that no one could really love a person so broken in so many places. But the broken owl has two eyes filled with a starry universe, and that's when I realised, that you can be loved for your brokenness. Not just despite it. It only takes someone who knows what a starry universe would feel like. Broken is beautiful, too. And sometimes even more beautiful. C. Joybell C.
I always gravitate towards things that are not beautiful, but...
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I always gravitate towards things that are not beautiful, but broken and weird and fascinating Kate McKinnon
I keep breaking things, as if to see what's going...
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I keep breaking things, as if to see what's going on inside of me. Jenim Dibie
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I guess that sometimes it just takes a long walk through the darkness, a long walk through the darkest shadows and corners of your soul to realize that those are a part of you as well, that you've created through your experiences and thoughts those parts within yourself and as much as you can choose to fear them and repress them, they will require your attention one day, they will need your care and acceptance before you can clean them away and turn the lights on. For you refuse to shine the light on something that is imperfect, because you fear judgement and rejection, but you can always choose to look towards the light as the only source of true beauty and love that can help you in the cleaning process. Healing, after a long time of struggle and mess is a complex process, but a necessary one nevertheless. We are so overwhelmed by the amount of work it requires that we so often choose to run away from the light, hide in our dark corner and hope that we will never be found, hope that we will never be seen, or desperately look outwards for that love and compassion that we can no longer find within ourselves, for our soul's light no longer shines as it used to. And sometimes we just find those people that can see the light beneath all that dust and darkness that's been pilled up, those kind of light workers that understand our broken souls and manage to pick us up and see the beauty within us, when we find it so hard to see it ourselves. Sometimes I get so tired of separation, of division, of groups and different religions and belief systems. Even if you do find the truth, once you've put it into words, books and rules it already becomes distorted by the mind into something that is no longer truth. So I no longer hope for understanding, no longer hope for the opinion of a judgemental mind, but I hope to find the words that touch the soul before the mind, I hope to find the touch that warms the heart from deep inside, and hope to find that far away abandoned part of me which I've left behind. Unknown
Some of us cover to protect our bodiessome of us...
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Some of us cover to protect our bodiessome of us cover to protect our soulsin both cases, respect their choices. Anjum Choudhary
What broke your heart so bad That you had to...
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What broke your heart so bad That you had to close every door, That you say you have a dark soul And can't utter the word 'love' anymore? Sanhita Baruah
The government can pass bills, but only the Great Healer...
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The government can pass bills, but only the Great Healer can heal a broken soul Sunday Adelaja
Now I know I'm not broken, For the stars within...
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Now I know I'm not broken, For the stars within my soul, Have just built constellations, To keep me feeling whole. Kyra Jackson
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Growing up in the digital age, I'm expected to embrace all forms of modern technology with blissful ignorance. Books were always one of few escapes from this, because reading a book means not having to look at another damned glowing screen - which is why, no matter how "convenient" or "enhanced" digital enthusiasts claim that Ebooks are, I'll never see them as real books. They're just files of binary data, and while they might be considered books by a large amount of people, Ebooks have lost the human quality that real books have. You can argue that this is pretentious or stupid or nostalgic, but ultimately what will you pass down to your children and grandchildren? A broken old Kindle device with the same files that millions of other people have, or the dog-eared paperbacks that you fell in love with and wrote your name in and got signed by the author and flipped through in the bookstore and kept with you for years, like an old friend?. Rebecca McNutt
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The hardest part about walking away from someone is the part where you realize that, no matter how slowly you go, they will never run after you. Genereux Philip
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If I was meant to be controlled, I would have come with a remote. Genereux Philip
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If ur laptop doesnt smell like fire then ur losing. Genereux Philip
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Bitch, if I ain't a G, I'm an OG Genereux Philip
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I'm the G when you spell OG Genereux Philip
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Work on making yourself a complete being. Though you were born with the physical traits of one sex, you possess the characteristics of both - including those of plants and animals. You were created as a nearly complete universal being, but with flaws. True perfection can only be achieved when one recognizes that they need to combine their oneness with others and nature. Only then is one considered complete. Suzy Kassem
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I've always known we were two puzzle pieces that fit together in a hollow that is our pain. There was a time when I was certain we were too damaged not to destroy each other. Now I think we are saving each other. Lisa Renee Jones
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He is broken in three ways, sometimes four. I count them.- He believes himself to be human, but is not actually. At least not anymore. This is similar to the way he believes himself to be alive.- He has a grim affinity for drugs. This comes with no caveat and no parentheses. This is just a fact of life.- He is doggedly unhappy and once decided to kill himself. Sadly, he has not really stopped.- On certain occasions when these first three things have ceased to be bad enough, he loves me. The other sins are commonplace, forgivable under a big enough umbrella. This fourth is irrevocable. Unconscionable. In a word, it is utterly damning. Brenna Yovanoff
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Sometimes a broken heart can mend something else's brokenness Munia Khan
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Maybe that's what writers do- Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling. Sanhita Baruah
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Stop holding on to the broken pieces of that mirror even after you are bleeding so badly, I agree that the reflections you had imagined or saw once before were beautiful but sometimes holding on to them with a hope will just continue to hurt you even more and it will never get any better. Akshay Vasu
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One's suffering, one's melancholy is, in itself, really only looked upon as failure or as punishment, as detestable or sinful or socially unacceptable in the eyes of man; but this is not so in the eyes of God: for He is close to the broken-hearted. Criss Jami
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That sassy low classy, but dress real cheap-fly-n-fancy, with a chip on her shoulder -- she's just a bitterly wounded dove, wanting to be sieged by love. T.F. Hodge
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The difference is, Now I cant call you anymore… I cant hear your calming voice, I cant hear your words That made me always feel better, Now I am just all alone In this dark and cold room JJM
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I feel so lonely every night and every day and I still push everyone away… JJM
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When love plays your life, and left you nothing but a memory of a broken heart heart, let the pain runs out in your eyes, it will make you feel better. Don't think you're strong when you're not, it will only makes you feel weaker. Be wise, accept, forgive and forget with no regret. Bradley B. Dalina
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The secret tugs at my sleeve. A child looking for attention. It is not a big secret. But it is not the only one either.“ Strength in numbers” they say. For they are many. Many little things that — together —weigh tonnes. And take up space. And are quite noisy. The way only a lot of whispers can make noise. And they follow me. Little secretsof omission, desire, and denial. Of indulgence, hedonism, and exploration. Of peeves, passion, and deep-seated fear. Little secretsof despairanddisrepairandprohibited thoroughfare. Adelheid Manefeldt
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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
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I said I'm selfish, I'm a liar and I'm broken Shit runs through my head every day that I would never tell anyone You're just like me The only difference is that I'm honest enough to scream my flaws in the lines of this song Real Friends
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.. and I realise the only way to tell the others is through the way my voice can take these broken wordsand turn it into music. Turn it into poetry. And I sing to make myself come alive, but also for you, because I’d like this to mean something. To not disappear with the dark I will enter one day and so now I will tell. If not for you, then for my own heart, because it tells me to, and I'm learning to listen. Charlotte Eriksson
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The devil would be powerless if he couldn't entice people to do his work. So as long as money continues to seduce the hungry, the hopeless, the broken, the greedy, and the needy, there will always be war between brothers. Suzy Kassem
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Once I had a love affair with myself. I was left heart broken. Anthony T. Hincks
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We often use the Bible as a source for personal validation and defense, a sidekick and a shield, but these will prove ineffective without first the other part. We must also allow ourselves to be wounded by it. We tend to forget its authority - that it is a double-edged sword. Our decrepit, depraved hearts must be completely ripped out in order to welcome that of God. Criss Jami
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Coming back to life' is perhaps the toughest battle we keep fighting forever. U never know when will ur life throw u down from Zenith to Nadir and then the journey restarts again... Reetwika Banerjee
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I was crying because I had broken my best friend's heart. Sherman Alexie
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The heart can never break if you believe love never dies. Kate McGahan
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My world is a million shattered pieces put together, glued by my tears, where each piece is nothing but a reflection of YOU. Sanhita Baruah
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I count everything. Even numbers, odd numbers, multiples of 10. I count the ticks of the clock i count the tocks of the clock I count the lines between the lines on a sheet of paper. I count the broken beats of my heart I count my pulse and my blinks and the number of tries it takes to inhale enough oxygen for my lungs. I stay like this I stand like this I count like this until the feeling stops. Until the tears stop spilling, until my fists stop shaking, until my heart stops aching. There are never enough numbers. . Tahereh Mafi
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We are all trying to get over the person who broke our hearts. We are all far from perfect. Alex Rosa
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The only way I’d ever die of a broken heart, is if I slammed into something really hard Josh Stern
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For Saffron, " it said in shaky old writing on the damaged base, and on the other side, "Saffy's angel." Saffron, picking up the broken fragments one by one, said it didn't matter. She hugged Rose and Indigo and Caddy and Sarah, and said again and again that it didn't matter, it didn't matter at all. Hilary McKay
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A carpenter is hired- a roof repaired, a porch built. Everything that can be fixed. June, July, August. Everyday we hear their laughter. I think of the painting by van Gogh, the man in the chair. Everything wrong, and nowhere to go. His hands over his eyes. Mary Oliver
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And, like the prodigal son, he had returned broken in body and also in mind to the house where he had been born, and he and his child had been welcomed with open arms. Catherine Cookson
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I felt a Cleaving in my Mind–As if my Brain had split– I tried to match it– Seam by Seam–But could not make it fit. The thought behind, I strove to join Unto the thought before– But Sequence ravelled out of SoundLike Balls–upon a Floor. Emily Dickinson
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Go to God with your coal, and He will set them to blazing fire. Anthony Liccione
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It was uncontrollable, overpowered by others, these colors within me, staring out at a black and white world; without spurning about, wanting to rule, too much negligence, they left me no choice, but to surrender. It was time, had to crash the lightning, and bow to the rain, where promises have broken, and pain still reigns. Had to give up myself and bring life to the world, had to. Dye Anthony Liccione
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Everything you have said will not matter anymore one day, only those things that you never said will always haunt you and strangle you every time you see your world in someone else's hand. Akshay Vasu
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I have loved this world in ways it could never love me back. Anjum Choudhary
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Some days I like to wander to old and warn our places, forests ripped apart by man and streams that carry stagnant water where it use to flow. There is a sense of clarity in these places, a reflection of who I am or atleast who I have been. Broken, yet still incredibly beautiful. Nikki Rowe
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Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars. Jeanette Walls
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I’m sorry I broke you. It’s just that you’re so pretty, and I break pretty things. Denice Envall
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Words fail to describewhat i feel anymore. Let me be numb for a while, let me be sore. Anjum Choudhary
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Love left us long back, we just got better. You at pretending, Me at hiding. Anjum Choudhary
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My mind gets stronger everyday, my heart gets weaker with time. Anjum Choudhary
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I think i should get love inked on my skin. Maybe that's the only way i am destined to keep it. Anjum Choudhary
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Don't focus on the words i write, pay attention to the ones i don't. These lines won't tell you much about me, try to read in between these lines. Anjum Choudhary
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He was her reason for existence, She was his ultimate risk. Anjum Choudhary
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There were plenty of fishes in the pond, yet i fell in love with a crocodile. Anjum Choudhary
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Newton's laws of physics can rarely be applied to the real world. There is more to life than cause and effect. Things just aren't that simple Amy Zhang
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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
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Once spun, The silken thread of all our aspirations Remains intact, It can never be broken. Scott Hastie
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To be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor. Stacey T. Hunt
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That's the thing about rocks--they don't break easily. When I held them, I wanted to be like them-strong and steady, weathered but not broken. Ellen Dreyer