Breaking Quotes

It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.

~ Frank Warren

Hey, Rosalie? Do you know how to drown a blonde? Stick a mirror to the bottom of a pool.

~ Stephenie Meyer

Everyone smiles in the same language, Happiness knows no frontiers, no age. No difference thar makes us feel apart if a smile can win even a broken heart.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

You can break a man with hope.

~ Kate Morgenroth

On building homes for fallen angels:When I was small - I sought a home,a place to go and rest my bones.Then founded something, of my own,I lived among the restless stones.If seeking leads you back to evil,what good is that, I asked a weevil.He said a home is what you make,it can't be real, if it is fake...And if you wait instead of seek,will you find love, or something bleak?I know (myself) for I have found,a beauty, hidden – in a sound.Waiting is boring.And so is exploring.A smile is sometimes all it takes.And then your whole world simply breaks.

~ Will Advise

Instead of breaking or cherry-picking the rules, many just follow the inner rules, which have been instilled during their lifetime and have subtly permeated their thinking. They value rules, as it offers the ravishment of a securing, ceremonial rhythm in life and it prevents them from breaking free from their cocoon, all the more because freedom can be so scaring and exhausting. (When forgetting the rules of the game )

~ Erik Pevernagie

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

Stop trying to change someone who does not want to change. Stop giving chances to someone who abuses your forgiveness. Stop walking back to the place where your heart ran from. Stop trusting their words and ignoring their actions. Stop breaking your own heart.

~ Trent Shelton

I checked my words carefully. Words more powerful than atom bombs and more cutting than AK-47s. People are fragile and words, not bullets will break them, and once they break every part of them spills out. Their soul, spirit, identity, ugliness, and their beauty. It’s all there, right in front of you if you know where to look. Most people see the ugly and I didn't want to become that. I thought I looked for beauty but then wondered why I often say such ugly things.

~ Bruce Crown

The worst feelings are the warm, anxious burning that portends your heart breaking followed by the wave of numbness that asphyxiates your soul.

~ Ken Poirot

We stand a professional distance apart, as if I can’t feel his pain screaming in my head. Mine amplifies his; they share a joint sound—that of glass breaking—until they swell to a crescendo that deafens.

~ Ann Aguirre

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

~ Kahlil Gibran

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

From the way that people have always talked about your heart being broken, it sort of seemed to be a one-time thing. Mine seemed to break all the time.

~ Heather O'neill

The saddest noise in the world is that of a heart breaking.

~ Ken Poirot

The USA utility power generation industry subcontracts out their dangerous jobs so that the bad statisitics will not be associated with them. Smart people avoid working for the subcontractors. I have worked directly for a number of subcontractors and overseen subcontractors and their staff were clearly sick, showing behavioral problems and overworked. In some cases they were blatantly breaking OSHA laws. OSHA covers it all up! Unfortunately, the problems can be traced back to OSHA and their wilful lack of enforcement of the law.

~ Steven Magee

I’m sorry I broke you. It’s just that you’re so pretty, and I break pretty things.

~ Denice Envall

No matter what, I would never let the people who wanted me to break see how much damage they had inflicted.

~ Rachel L. Schade

Patience is to wait for the ice to melt instead of breaking it.

~ Munia Khan

My innocence is not lost—it has been converted into wisdom. The sensation we call breaking is the pain that comes from resisting the truth. Life broke parts of me that needed to fall away for me to live an open and truthful life.

~ Jewel

We are a day away from making history, and a history towards the breaking of tommorrow.

~ Anthony Liccione

Trust holds fast, standing firm until deliverance arrives or a solution is found.

~ Elizabeth George

. . . the sole aim of Okinawa Karate is to teach A person to handle violence and violent individuals; whether it is tactile, mental or spiritual

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

I hope my forgiveness reminds you,Of the part you forgot to break in me.

~ Jenim Dibie

She simply didn't have an interest in men anymore. It wasn't that she didn't like them, she just knew how easily they broke.

~ Erica Bauermeister

I don't want to break my memories with you.

~ Arzum Uzun

For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he may a very strong one.

~ Homer

Let the kindness and the raw, aching beauty of the universe shatter you over and over again. find peace in the knowledge that your whole is composed of the sum of all of your beautifully broken pieces. because breaking is becoming.

~ Jeanette Leblanc

You don't need to hold them, Just let them choose if they want to stay or be free.You're not a rope,You're a magnet.

~ Bradley B. Dalina

I called Isaac, who cursed life and the universe and God Himself and who said where are the goddamned trophies to break when you need them, and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Waters’s death was Augustus Waters.

~ John Green

You're letting me go?He curled his upper lip, his expression painfully bitter as he took a step back from me. Apparently... I never had a hold of you. He turned sharply, and without another word striding down the street into the dark.Braden never once looked back and that was a good thing.If he had, he'd have seen Jocelyn Butler crying real tears for the first time in a long time, and he would have known that I'd lied. And lied big. For anyone who saw me, knew they were watching a heart in the process of it breaking.

~ Samantha Young

I can fake a smile. I can force a laugh. I can dance and play the part of that's what you ask. Give you all I am. But I am only human. I bleed when I fall down. I'm only human I crash and I break down. Your words in my head. Knives in my heart. You build me up and then I fall apart.

~ Christina Perri

Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

I am a descendent of a whole bunch of Black folk who couldn't be broken.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker