Top 66 Shattered Quotes

Since Beau’s death, I’m definitely shattered. I feel like a piece of china that’s been glued back together again. The cracks may be imperceptible-but they’re there. Look closely, and you can see the glue holding me together, the precarious edges that vein through my heart. I am not the same. I feel it every day.

Russians clearly perceive America’s global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.

Perhaps the most startling reversal of tradition came in the case of Lefty Grove. He shattered the cruel slanders which have always followed lefthanders.

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 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.

WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the comforts of Edwardian life to travel bravely, and sometimes even jauntily, to almost certain death. At the very least, any story or novel about WWI is about innocence shattered in the face of experience.

It was a big impact. I fractured the skull and it shattered into quite a few pieces. The plates I’ve had inserted will be there permanently, along with the screws.

Can you think of a single situation, no matter how grave, where the atmosphere would not be instantly shattered with a loud fart – or a drawing of a butt? There is no faster way to create universal common ground.

I love ‘Shattered Glass.’ It’s one of my favorite movies. I think it’s just brilliant.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It’s like death.

The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn’t happen.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

I am forced to view the Middle East as if I am looking in a mirror that has been shattered.

Your heart will be shattered by sorrow if you force it to live in tomorrow’s ephemeral imagination – world instead of in today’s eternal reality – now.

There was a time when I was young and unemployed, struggling to start my career. During my A-Levels, I was hit by a car, which shattered my bones and left me confined to my bedroom for a year. Weirdly, it was the best thing that ever happened to me.

I think rather than further the stereotypes of me going into the league and being ‘the Harvard guy,’ I shattered those when I was a rookie and I couldn’t call a play in the huddle.

When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over. They were everything to me and my world was shattered.

The mentally ill may have shattered lives, but how that is different than the way sin distorts our ability to comprehend who we are as God’s creatures is not clear.

I used the same hand to pat my back and to pick me up when I get shattered after losing out on a film due to reasons except your credibility to that role.

I am livid with rage, sitting here in chains through this mad war which kills any meaning of life… My nerves are shattered and my mind darkened.

I’ve been dumped hard. My heart has been broken and shattered, and I’ve also been on the other end of that too.

My whole faith was shattered there for a while.

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

I’m from a generation of women that shattered the glass ceiling. We didn’t wait for doors to open. The lesson I learned is that you need to open some doors for yourself in pursuit of career advancement.

I remember on ‘JAG,’ Joe Jackson punched Stephen Culp and shattered his nose.

Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All too often, lives and families can be shattered by it.

Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother’s family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime.

Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.

You can be shattered, and then you can put yourself back together piece by piece. But what can happen over time is this: You wake up one day and realize that you have put yourself back together completely differently. That you are whole, finally, and strong – but you are now a different shape, a different size.

Ava DuVernay, Sheryl Crow, Diane von Furstenberg, Ashley Graham, Tracy Reese, Pat Benatar, Issa Rae, Betty White – they’ve all shattered glass ceilings, whether in music, fashion, or film.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

My mission is to get on the stage and say, ‘Listen, I’m a woman, I’m free, I’m a mother, I’m a lover, I’m a friend; I’m shattered by men most of the time, but I’ll keep falling in love with them because it’s the most thrilling thing in the world; that’s what makes me human.’

The ego being shattered is not what frightens me – that can be useful for writing – but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout.

I think the art world is one of the last bastions of this kind of sexism where there is a mythology about a woman not being able to be both and artist and a mother: that some very important creative crystal inside a woman would be shattered by the idea of having a child.

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or ‘outsideness’ without laying stress on the emotion of fear.

It was the Cosby family on the cover, but overlaid on that, it appeared to be a shattered glass. So it really wasn’t just about the shattering of the Huxtables: it was really a shattering of the black family. And it was a question about that and where do we stand on that.

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 and invented a new one that the world followed.

After Euro 2008, football in England was shattered for a bit, and people were losing interest in following England.

To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, the ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control that can lead you to be shattered.

I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.

I think we’ve broken a lot of barriers and kind of shattered our glass ceiling that was there for women. There are so many great fighters, and we’ve proved a lot of people wrong. A lot of the times, our fights are the best fights on the card.

If you get too big for your boots, if you’ve got big dreams, you’re gonna get them broken or shattered.

I shattered the heel in my good leg, and it was an extremely bad injury. I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to snowboard again.

It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, rubbing elbows with the likes of Aldous Huxley and T.E. Lawrence, before World War I shattered everything forever.

Christianity in the Middle East is shattered. The ancient faith tradition lies beaten, broken, and dying.

Learning of my father’s passing at age 55 not only shattered the world, far from home, that had become my reality, but catapulted my childhood and relationship with family – which had felt like another lifetime – into the present.

As we began to read more and more journals of men who had been in the Civil War and then been in the Indian Wars, we realized there was a whole universe of men whose souls had been shattered, whose lives had been utterly destroyed by what they had to do.

A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.

When I got hurt – everybody knows I shattered my pelvis – all I thought about was running with my kids one day and being able to have a family.

One day, I got beat up, and my glasses, which were crooked already, got shattered on the ground. That’s when I said, ‘Okay, enough.’ I became like Batman. I decided to thug myself out, all the way.

In my lifetime, I’ve discovered a great many incredibly talented individuals. Some have achieved stardom. Simultaneously, I’ve seen many dreams shattered, egos destroyed and lives changed forever. The end destination may well be fame and fortune, but the road to stardom is littered with broken hearts.

Books should be right up there with exercise and diet as something that don’t just entertain us but heal us. They tell us we are not alone and fix the pieces of us that can be shattered by reality. They are teachers, and they are friends, and we should never contemplate a world – or a life – without them.