Brokenness Quotes

“Your wholeness will be uncomfortable to those who've grown accustomed to brokenness.”
― Andrena Sawyer

“I began thinking about what would happen if we all just acknowledged our brokenness, if we owned up to our weaknesses, our deficits, our biases, our fears. Maybe if we did, we wouldn’t want to kill the broken among us who have killed others. Maybe we would look harder for solutions to caring for the disabled, the abused, the neglected, and the traumatized. I had a notion that if we acknowledged our brokenness, we could no longer take pride in mass incarceration, in executing people, in our deliberate indifference to the most vulnerable.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“So many of us have become afraid and angry. We’ve become so fearful and vengeful that we’ve thrown away children, discarded the disabled, and sanctioned the imprisonment of the sick and the weak—not because they are a threat to public safety or beyond rehabilitation but because we think it makes us seem tough, less broken. I thought of the victims of violent crime and the survivors of murdered loved ones, and how we’ve pressured them to recycle their pain and anguish and give it back to the offenders we prosecute. I thought of the many ways we’ve legalized vengeful and cruel punishments, how we’ve allowed our victimization to justify the victimization of others. We’ve submitted to the harsh instinct to crush those among us whose brokenness is most visible.

But simply punishing the broken--walking away from them or hiding them from sight--only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“Our brokenness is our greatest strength.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family

“Broken hearts still carry so much of love inside, broken hearts can still beat, they still shine and your broken heart is waiting to love a person who is willing to love it back altogether.

From (The Awakening)”
― Jyoti Patel

“It’s not at all what I thought it would be. Nothing is. No matter how much I love it, it doesn’t love me back. If I weren’t so broken, it would fit. I feel like I don’t have a home.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Yolk

“Every part of your brokenness will play a part in your wholeness.”
― Andrena Sawyer

“...it’s really the broken among us that can contribute a lot to our quest for full, equal justice. I mean, when you’re broken, you actually, you know something about what it means to be human. You know something about grace. You learn something about mercy. You learn something about forgiveness. It’s the broken among us that can teach us some things.

And knowing that you don’t have to be perfect and complete gives you a way of moving through challenge that would be hard if you think that that’s not something that’s possible.”
― Bryan Stevenson

“Unless our brokenness gets healed, it will affect how we think and feel and act every day.”
― Ryan Stevenson, Eye of the Storm: Experiencing God When You Can't See Him

“oh brave one,
oh broken, beautifully brave one,
remember.
remember that no matter how tiny the fragments this time,
how far apart they are scattered,
how long you must search,
he will help you find the pieces of the person you once were
and the image you once bore.”
― Maya Joelle, Cathedral: a collection

“...as I slowly made my way home I understood that even as we are caught in a web of hurt and brokenness, we're also in a web of healing and mercy.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“Paul Farmer, the renowned physician who has spent his life trying to cure the world’s sickest and poorest people, once quoted me something that the writer Thomas Merton said: We are bodies of broken bones. I guess I’d always known but never fully considered that being broken is what makes us human. We all have our reasons. Sometimes we’re fractured by the choices we make; sometimes we’re shattered by things we would never have chosen. But our brokenness is also the source of our common humanity, the basis for our shared search for comfort, meaning and healing. Our shared vulnerability and imperfection nurtures and sustains our capacity for compassion.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“I frequently had difficult conversations with clients who were struggling and despairing over their situations—over the things they’d done, or had been done to them, that had led them to painful moments. Whenever things got really bad, and they were questioning the value of their lives, I would remind them that each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“It takes brokenness to remove what’s breaking us.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To truly love a woman with a multitude of cuts is the most difficult thing a man will ever do. It’s like walking barefoot on the shards of glass. Both will break a little inside and that’s what makes them whole. That’s the beauty of being broken- no matter how it devastatingly hurts, it proves that LOVE conquers all.”
― Bea Pilotin

“To truly love a woman with a multitude of cuts is the most difficult thing a man will ever do. It’s like walking barefoot on the shards of glass. Both will break a little inside and that’s what makes them whole. That’s the beauty of being broken- no matter how it devastatingly hurts, LOVE still stands to conquer all.”
― Bea Pilotin

“The more a being is broken in love,
The more whole a being becomes.
Awareness is born of brokenness,
It's in darkness that insight comes.

It is in darkness that,
heart shines the brightest,
It is darkness that shows the lane.
Don't lose heart, o lover loco,
Everybody can love when happy,
Only a few can love in pain.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım

“I knew at that moment that I had learned one of my biggest life lessons, that good people sometimes snap. And a broken person can be fixed.”
― Susie Newman, Eating Yellow Paint

“Our brokenness is our greatest strength. I've been broken all my life, for my life is one on the spectrum with OCD to make things worse. But have you ever heard me whine about my brokenness - no – never! For no matter how broken you are, till you give in to your brokenness, it can never break you.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family

“We are all broken one way or another. Instead of bickering, let's be strength to each other.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“All of us are broken. We come from broken families with broken hearts, and we grieve broken dreams. We are broken up with and have breakdowns. We barely break even or are flat broke. Our bones break, and our spirits break. Our houses get broken into, and our skin breaks out. We are broken vessels with a broken compass and no clear direction. We wonder when we will have a breakthrough. Jesus knows brokenness. He understands each brand of brokenness, and he knows our brokenness does not have to be the end of our stories or define us. Life does not end during seasons of brokenness, but it changes us. We can find refuge in the One who broke himself so we can be healed. The benefits of having suffered deliver a superior understanding of the benefits of the cross.”
― Darci J. Steiner, Beauty Beyond the Thorns: Discovering Gifts in Suffering

“We are all such broken children acting like adults.”
― Christina Strigas

“Broken am I, broken are you, when broken together, we are each other's glue.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“We're two broken people, aren't we?' [Richelle Bach]

He [Justin Ek] nodded. 'That's okay. Broken things usually fit better together.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Promise

“When I was younger I did not doubt you, and I thought I never would.
But now I do, and my fears are crystal sharp in my mind. Breaking me.
I am broken.
And in my brokenness, I break things.
...
And yet
you tell me
to rejoice.”
― Maya Joelle, Cathedral: a collection

“They look stern at first, do a lot of scowling, but behind their eyes, once you get them talking, there's a hurt, docile quality, possibly related to past wrongs done them, a quality I associate with the thunked-as-kids: Long ago the world turned on them in some unexpected and unpleasant way, and they are, not unreasonably, expecting that it could happen again at any moment.”
― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

“Broken (The Sonnet)

The most effective people,
On earth are all broken.
The people with most excellence,
Are all broken.
There is no excellence without brokenness,
For brokenness builds character.
Broken, and in agony, that's how we grow,
One who knows pain knows to help another.
Pain is not our enemy,
Pain is what keeps us alert.
To avoid pain is to avoid growth,
To avoid pain is to keep the heart shut.
Embrace pain, and pain will have no hold over you.
Once accepted, in brokenness you'll find yourself anew.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“Broken beings are living beings,
One who isn't broken isn't alive.
To walk in the light is quite easy,
To walk in the dark is the walk of light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım

“Broken together, woken together.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“... throwing myself into work didn’t do a damn thing to ease the pain of existing in a world where the one woman I want can never be mine.”
― J.L. Seegars, Restore Me