Brokenness Quotes

“Do you understand? Nothing thrives without being broken. Nothing exists without being dead first.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Dead Astronauts

“She's more delicate than you'd think," I say. She's glass. I'm glass. We're all glass, busted up, unrecognizable from our original selves. We walk around in fragments. It's a circus act.”
― Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts

“Sometimes celebrating, enjoying, and laughing seem almost inappropriate in a world as broken as ours. We look around and see panic on the faces of everyone we see. Tragedies become ordinary. How, in good conscience, can we laugh and celebrate and eat pizza? I believe we must celebrate - because celebration is one of the most effective weapons we have against the darkness of our day. The real grief of the state of our world is the pervasive fear that settles in our hearts.”
― Sally Clarkson, The Lifegiving Table: Nurturing Faith through Feasting, One Meal at a Time

“Maybe we’re all a little broken. Maybe we’re all a little fragile. Maybe that’s why we need each other so much.”
― Dan Gemeinhart, The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise

“You'll jigsaw [the broken pieces of yourself] together however you can, caulk in the odd bits with willpower wherever they don't quite fit, ignore the occasional sounds of grinding and cracking. As long as nothing important breaks, right? You'll get by. You have to.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“The secret to becoming unbreakable is realizing that you are already broken. We all are.”
― Brant Menswar, Black Sheep: Unleash the Extraordinary, Awe-Inspiring, Undiscovered You

“Be proud of yourself for the effort, especially the parts that no one else saw.”
― Andrena Sawyer

“Stop dating mentally broke girls!”
― DON SANTO

“I am indeed afraid, Your Highness. Every moment of my existence carries such a burden of terror you could not imagine it. I fear I have no soul. I fear there are no gods. I fear there is no meaning to the pain I have known. I fear I have lost the capacity to love another human being or ever to see goodness in one. Among such fears as these, my lord, there is little room for you.”
― Carol Berg, Transformation

“...the thin straight line of her nose, the painful sharpness of her jaw, how she held herself with such stillness. Was it because she was afraid of breaking? Or because she had been broken so many times that the idea no longer frightened her?”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“We’re all broken,” she says. “You have to stop treating yourself like a special case. You may be broken in different places, but it’s damage all the same.”
― Brian McBride, Every Bright and Broken Thing

“God wants us to be broken in spirit so that He can make us strong at the broken places”
― Billy Graham, Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional

“She was limited, but God was not. She had to trust that He would find a way to make something beautiful through her.”
― Jocelyn Green, Veiled in Smoke

“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

“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. We have a choice. We can embrace our humanness, which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion that remains our best hope for healing. Or we can deny our brokenness, forswear compassion, and, as a result, deny our own humanity.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“Embracing our brokenness creates a need and a desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“A broken system will not fix a broken people.”
― Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

“The strongest souls are the most broken souls.”
― Abhijit Naskar, I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted

“God enters through the cracks of broken hearts, as do the demons when given their way.”
― Criss Jami

“There's a dimension of pride that is unbelievable. When people become proud of their humility or brokenness.”
― Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

“The absence of brokenness is the biggest sponsor of rebellion against God.”
― Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

“I thought my life had fractured that day, and in truth it had. But just like a fractured limb, it’s stronger now, in those broken places that have healed.”
― Lori Nelson Spielman, The Life List

“For years, I shied away from those who seem to have it all together, because I didn’t. Then I
learned that underneath the façade we’re all broken.”
― Linda Hoye, The Presence of Absence: A Story About Busyness, Brokenness, and Being Beloved

“When I see you in your brokenness, I feel safe enough to reveal a bit of my own, and before you
know it, we slip our masks aside and see each other real face to real face.”
― Linda Hoye, The Presence of Absence: A Story About Busyness, Brokenness, and Being Beloved

“Отново онова откачено усещане ме кара да се приближа до тях и не спирам, докато мирисът на изгоряло не ме обзема така, че да извърна поглед встрани. Нещо наистина не е наред дори с тях и мога да се закълна, че ако не е миризмата, когато се приближа ще видя съвсем ясно пукнатини. Макар че материалът, от който са направени изглежда ужасно здрав, приличат на вази, чупени многократно, а после залепяни, определено с не същия ентусиазъм. Обикновено си втълпяваш, че никой няма да забележи, но всъщност всичко се вижда, всичко е на показ. При всяко нещо е така: счупеното си остава счупено, колкото и да се опитваш да го прикриеш.”
― Йоана Йорданова, Звезден мрак

“They’re beautiful because of their broken parts.”
― C.S.R. Calloway, Pretty Dudes: The Novel

“Do not be blinded by brokenness nor bitterness.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I needed to stop fighting my own broken heart. It was all right that I was broken, and I could settle there, stop punishing myself for it. I needed to just survive like that, -broken-. That's what I was. I needed to let it be, all of it, all broken, broken for all time.”
― Liz Tichenor, The Night Lake: A Young Priest Maps the Topography of Grief

“We hide our deepest insecurities and our brokenness from a world of judgement and hurt.”
― Gabrielle McMaster, Twist in the Wind

“Add to total surrender consecration and add to consecration brokenness. The bread didn't multiply when the boy gave it, or when Jesus gave thanks for it, it multiplied when He broke it.”
― Kingsley Opuwari Manuel