c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
What? You don't think I'm perfect?" I can't resist, because he gets so riled whenever I bring it up. "I can run up to thirty miles without stopping. I can jump six feet in the air. There is not a material in this world sharp enough to pierce my skin. I cannot drown or suffocate. I am immune to every illness known to man. I have perfect memory. My senses are more acute that anyone else's. My reflexes rival those of a cat. I will never grow old" - my voice falls, all smugness gone -"and I will never die.
— Jessica Khoury, Origin
Random search for data on ... off-chance is hardly scientific. A questionnaire on 'Intellectual Immoralities' was circulated by a well-known institution. 'Intellectual Immorality No. 4' read: 'Generalizing beyond one's data'. [Wilder Dwight] Bancroft asked whether it would not be more correct to word question no. 4 'Not generalizing beyond one's data.
— Hans Selye, From Dream To Discovery: On Being A Scientist
Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.
— Cliff Fadiman
Maybe it is like Pascal's Wager, but I want to believe in the immortality of the soul because consciousness is such a fantastic gift that is feels cruel and unfair to end it so quickly.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You
True spiritual love is not a feeble imitation and anticipation of death, but a triumph over death, not a separation of the immortal form from the mortal, of the eternal from the temporal, but a transfiguration of the mortal into the immortal, the acceptance of the temporal into the eternal. False spirituality is a denial of the flesh; true spirituality is the regeneration of the flesh, its salvation, its resurrection from the dead.
— Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, The Meaning of Love
Yes, she now believed that when her body died, her soul would go on. Gods she did not worship, and faith she had none, but love she had and forever. Love alone had awakened her sleeping soul and had made it deathless.She knew she was immortal.
— Pearl S. Buck, Pavilion of Women: A Novel of Life in the Women's Quarters
I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain,” she says. “Not books.
— Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Part of the apparently conventional nature of our relationships is the threat of separation and death. This body dies. That body dies. We can rejuvenate, feel better, live longer, but, even so, in this world everybody dies. That is why we do spiritual practice, because we are conscious of the destiny of our separation. We are willing to fulfill the law of love, but on the other hand what we love dies. That is why this is one of the realms of suffering. This world is not a heaven. This is not a place of fulfillment. Thus, we must yield to the true Condition. We must not become dependent upon the conventional aspect of our relations. We must recognize our relations. We must identify with the Condition of the loved one.You must become established in the real Condition, or you will never be satisfied. You will be driven to all kinds of preoccupations and great schemes, trying to become victorious or immortal, for immortality's own sake, simply because you cannot deal with the fact of death. But death is an absolute message in this realm. It obligates us to recognize or identify one another in Truth, and we are not relieved of that obligation in this place.
— Adi Da Samraj, The Eating Gorilla Comes in Peace: The Transcendental Principle of Life Applied to Diet and the Regenerative Discipline of True Health
The nature of immortality is a mystery,' he says, speaking so softly that we have to lean closer to hear.' But everything I know of writing and reading tells me that this is true. I have felt it in these shelves and in others.
— Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Creating is the closest thing to being immortal.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
In order to create an idea... to become an idea, it is a necessity for you to believe that it is your own idea. The idea will grow to define your entire life. And when you die... you don't.
— Lionel Suggs
The problem with living forever, of course, is you have to live forever before you know you're immortal...or invincible. Even the gods, in this way, must always remain uncertain. Time trumps immortality just as uncertainty trumps omniscience, for a knower can only ever know what it knows, never what it doesn't. (attrib: F.L. Vanderson)
— Mort W. Lumsden, Citations: A Brief Anthology
Immortality was overrated, as far as he was concerned. Hardy had enough problems as it was; living forever sounded like a death sentence for someone with his practical sensibilities.
— David S.E. Zapanta, Posthumous
In the twilight of a silent coast, under the beautiful stars, immortality visits you!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
His beauty shall in these black lines be seen, and they shall live, and he in them still green.
— William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
I think that, when I die, it might be some time until I know it.
— Dallas Willard
What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well half an hour?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Often, on the brink of finding the recipe for immortality, I get distracted by the frightful presence of death.
— Héctor Abad Faciolince, Tratado de culinaria para mujeres tristes
Your health is probably good if you have just been reinstantiated, and is likely to remain good for some time. Most diseases are curable, and in event of an incurable ailment or injury, a new body may be provided--for a fee. (In the event of your murder, you will be furnished with a new body at the expense of your killer.)
— Charles Stross, Accelerando
Escape is very difficult to negotiate, underwater.
— Darion D'Anjou, Genetika
I could not do this, I realized, if I were immortal. This degree of love of life and of one another is granted, I saw for once and for ever, not to immortals, but to those who live briefly and always under the shadow of death and loss.
— Dan Simmons, The Rise of Endymion
Allow this poem to carry you beyond yourself, transcending your mortal flesh as you wed yourself with the potentially infinite.
— Peter Davis, Poetry! Poetry! Poetry!
I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not just between courses,but between mouthfuls. An American woman watched in disbelief."And you so intelligent!""Excuse me?" said tom"Knowing those things are going to kill you" she said "and still you do it.""How differently I might behave" Tom said, "if immortality were an option
— Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles
If I should die," said I to myself, "I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd.
— Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion
Success is not money, cars, fame or material possessions but the lives you touched positively.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love.
— John Piper, Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent
Besides, if I am truly immortal, I am my own grandchild, my own descendant, my own dynasty. I am not obliged to live on through what I pass down to others.
— Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
Shall a mangrave his sorrows upon a stone when he hath but need to write them onthe water? Nay, oh /She/, I will live my day, and grow old with mygeneration, and die my appointed death, and be forgotten.
— H. Rider Haggard, She
I once met a traveler who told me he would live to see the end of time. He laid out all his vitamins before me and told me he slept seven hours every night, no more or less. All the life you want, he said. It's all within the palm of your hand now. He said he would outlast all the wars and all the diseases, long enough to remember everything, and long enough to forget everything. He'd be the last man still standing when the sun decides to collapse upon itself and history ends. He said he had found the safest place on earth, where he could stay until the gateway to the beyond opened before him. A thousand generations from today. I pictured him there, atop a remote and snowy mountain. The heavens opening and God congratulating him for his perseverance. Asking him to join Him and watch as the sun burns down to a dull orange cinder and everything around it breaks is orbit and goes tumbling tumbling away, everything that once seemed permanent pulled apart so effortlessly, like a ball of yarn. A life into divinity.But I knew it was a lie. I've always known it was a lie. You can not hide from the world. It will find you. It always does. And now it has found me. My split second of immortality is over. All that's left now is the end, which is all any of us ever has.
— Drew Magary, The Postmortal
This is the gift and the sorrow of the Athanate
—  to see your loves pass before you like the days of summer while your heart still beats. To keep your vigil in the shadows and rise again with every sun.
Music is a form that tends to give shape to rules, social mores, social attitudes, feelings—it does this in a very beautiful, fluid way. To me the issue of form and formlessness is most strong in the theme of mortality versus a human wish for immortality of a sort. Take, for example, the definition of beauty in fashion. Remember what Alison says at the beginning? She says when she was young she didn’t know what beautiful was. She looked at this woman who everyone was saying was beautiful and she didn’t even know what they were talking about. I experienced that when I was a child. If I loved someone I thought they were really beautiful. And then eventually, I began to get it, the social concept of beauty. Not that I think beautiful is completely imaginary, but beauty is so wide ranging and fluid. Yet there’s a need to say: “This is what it is, and it’s not changing; we’re taking a picture of it to hold it still.” It’s like an impulse to put up a building meant to last forever. An urge to grab and hold something in place when nothing human can be grabbed and held in place. We come into these physical bodies . . . whatever we are takes this shape that is so particular and distinct—eyes, nose, mouth—and then it gradually begins to disintegrate. Eventually it’s going to dissolve completely. It’s a huge problem for people; we can understand it, but it breaks our hearts. And so we’re constantly trying to pin something down or leave a trace that will last forever. “And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita . . .” What other immortality will anyone share?
— Mary Gaitskill
But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man.
— Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
Innocence has no place alongside immortality.
— Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem
People are afraid of immortality because they believe they won’t find something to do and will get bored! What to do if we become immortal? We can just walk! It is better than dying!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I have never believed that God “makes” bad things happen. Death happens to everyone, not as a punishment, but because we are not meant to stay on this earth forever. As a result we are vulnerable rather than invincible, as is the earth we live on. And if our soul is immortal, we move forward knowing we can all be together again one day.
— John Pete
People often ask if one day mankind attains immortality, how he will be able to get rid of the eternal boredom problem? The answer is this: By embarking on eternal adventures!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A wise man does not give quick answers to complex questions – he observes, analyzes and contemplates.
— Eraldo Banovac
The key question is does the wrong interpretation of reality change reality.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
The real question is: to whom does the meaning of the art of the past properly belong ? To those who can app|y it to their own lives, or to a cultural hierarchy of relic specialtsts?
— John Berger, Ways of Seeing
Who is right and who is wrong is a personal question.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Designing well-written tests still remains a challenging task. Some complex questions may lose clarity causing difficulties in providing meaningful answers. Basically, questions should be designed in such a way that each well-prepared student can easily give a correct answer.
— Eraldo Banovac
Aiming to check a new test's difficulty, ask your assistants to solve the test prior to the actual exam. If the results are not satisfactory, reevaluate all ambiguous questions and correct them.
— Eraldo Banovac
The candor of a civilized mind comes from the ability to question self before action; the reverse is the case for the creative mind; act first, then question later.
— Val Uchendu
Create answers where there are questions.Create solutions where there are problems.Create advantages where there are obstacles.Create opportunities where there are roadblocks.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Questioning is important for breakthrough innovation that in future companies will have a CXO level Position that leads all the interesting innovation - CQO Chief Questioning Officer.
— Saurabh Gupta Earth5R
We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.
— Mark  Lawrence, King of Thorns
He'd broken his leg dropping down from the rooftop. The bone didn't set right, and he'd limped ever after. So he'd found himself a Fabrikator and had his cane made. It became a declaration. There was no part of him that was no broken, that had not healed wrong, and there was no part of him that was not stronger for having been broken.
— Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside.
— Audre Lorde
You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.
— Holly Black, Tithe
There are many things I don’t know, but quite a few I do. I know you can’t be lost if you know where you are. I know that life is full of precious and fragile things, and not all of them are pretty. I know that the sun follows the moon and makes days, one after another. Time passes. The world turns, and we turn with it, and though we can never go back to the beginning, sometimes, we can start again.
— Megan Hart
But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.
— Megan Hart, Broken
I know everything and nothing about him all at the same time.
— Megan Hart, Broken
We fit, you and I,” he whispered looking into that haunting gaze. “Two broken pieces making a whole.
— Nalini Singh, Bonds of Justice
Life was such a precious thing, easily broken.
— Shaun Jeffrey, The Kult
One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.
— Linda Poindexter
She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way to put it back together.
— Anne Lamott, Crooked Little Heart
They’re like sharks. Circling. Cute, single guy, good job, nice car. It’s all they know about me.”His tone was light but his expression serious.Maybe that’s because it’s all you show them.”Maybe it’s all they want to see.
— Megan Hart, Broken
Even though I had been broken, I was strong enough to love again someday.
— Kathleen Hayes
The slate black sky. The middle stepof the back porch. And long agomy mother's necklace, the beadsrolling north and south. Brokenthe rose stem, water into drops, glassknob on the bedroom door. Last summer'spot of parsley and mint, white rootsshooting like streamers through the cracks.Years ago the cat's tail, the bird bath,the car hood's rusted latch. Brokenlittle finger on my right hand at birth--I was pulled out too fast. What hasn''tbeen rent, divided, split? Broken the days into nights, the night skyinto stars, the stars into patternsI make up as I trace themwith a broken-off bladeof grass. Possible, unthinkable,the cricket's tiny back as I lieon the lawn in the dark, my harta blue cup fallen from someone's hands. 
— Dorianne Laux, Facts About the Moon
I think there's a secret part of me that would like to drop my entire life off a cliff and watch it break into a million pieces
— Suzanne Morrison, Yoga Bitch: One Woman's Quest to Conquer Skepticism, Cynicism, and Cigarettes on the Path to  Enlightenment
‎"Broken does not mean non-functioning, or incapacitated, it does however mean ready for repair. 
— Shawn Boreta
Nate and me... we aren't built for truces, for good times, for light jokes and giggles. We're meant for the shadows. For the dirty, ugly, secret parts of our souls, the parts we can't hide because we know each other too well.
— Julie   Johnson, Cross the Line
And when he broke, it was a miracle he managed to find all the pieces of himself again.
— Kiera Cass, Happily Ever After
The journey of reinvention is one of raw emotionsEmerging from dormancySurprising as a paper cutOverwhelming as a hailstormOne part vulnerabilityOne part rageOne part surrenderUncomfortableUnfamiliarUnsureFearfulAloneDamagedBrokenAnd finding a new SelfSlowlyDifferentHealingHumblePresentOpenLongingFree
— Dave Rudbarg
Sometimes the man of your dream only belongs in your dream.
— Precious Kerme
This heart, it's broke, it's totally broken. Entah kenapa pertahanan diriku akhirnya runtuh. It hurts so much and finally it tears me down.
— Unknown
Love...love is the only thing that doesn't hurt. So many people are afraid of it. I think I was five years ago. Afraid that loving you would hurt me, one way or the other. But love doesn't hurt. Abuse hurts, and loneliness hurts, and jealousy hurts, and lies hurt. But love? Love heals. Love puts back together things that were broken before. Which is what you've done for me. So promising you, that's easy. I don't want to be anywhere else but with you. No matter what.
— Laura Kaye, Ride Rough
I was born with a broken key in my mouth.
— Robert  Black
You are not flawed, you are as beautiful as you have always been and blessed with evidence of a life lived.
— Becca Lee
It is not a surprise that there are people we love and hate at the same time. Not as though we hate them, but we hate how they don't love us.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I know all about broken things. I came from a broken house, and a broken land full of broken people. I have a broken soul and a broken heart. This man doesn't know it, but all his cracks align with mine.
— Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives
I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
— Kami Garcia, Beautiful Chaos
No one is perfect till you make some feel you are perfect
— Nashofficials
So friendship is all about ignoring?...Fake smiles?...Lies...Promises which get broken?...
— Deyth Banger, Deeper Level C#N
Even though on the outside we glittered like gold, inside we were almost as black as coal. Sometimes the glitter people saw was only the shattered pieces reflecting among the broken glass.
— Tracy Krimmer, All That Glitters
I suppose most things in a person's life are good for a while, even if that doesn't last very long. Maybe that is why, even after something has gone wrong, we spend so much time trying to fix it. Because we remember when it wasn't broken.
— Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness
She was broken. She was useless. She was the pointless half of a friendship. The one who would live forever in shadows, no matter what she did. No matter whom she fought.
— Susan Dennard, Windwitch
Please don’t tell me, it was less painful than a broken backbone, a forgotten poem, a lost home.
— Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings
Sometimes you just want to hug someone and drown.
— Alamvusha
We’re all a little broken, on the sidewalk. On the street. In the city.
— Corey Ann Haydu, The Careful Undressing of Love
I mean, I tried to change, I did, everybody tries to change, Michael. Not just the queerboys. You look in the mirror and all you see is what's wrong, I'm not _this_ enough or I'm not _that_ enough, and you spend your whole life trying to fix yourself, because you just want to be okay inside your head, you know?I know you know this, Michael, that's why you're here. You're looking for the fix. Yeah, that's why they call it a fix. Because you think you're broken. Only you're not--that broken feeling? That's normal. That's how you know you're normal. If you're not feeling it, you really are broken, that's the joke
— David Gerrold, Thirteen Fourteen Fifteen O'Clock
Some broken vases can still hold beautiful flowers
— Munia Khan
Broken people are the most dangerous...because they just don't give a fuck
— Ashley Jade, Blame It on the Shame
The wold was full of us, the leftovers and the leavers, the bereaved and the broken.
— Joshilyn Jackson, The Opposite of Everyone
I don't know why, but watching someone else break made me feel a lot less broken.
— Wesley King, OCDaniel
The cops will break down your door to save you. God will break down your constitution. Brokenness is not the opposite of wholeness. It's how He gets in.
— Kate McGahan
Only two people knew this side of her—herself, and the one who had created it; the one who made her secretly loathe herself, made her feel used and dirty and broken—like tarnished scraps of silver. These night-time reminders made her too aware that like those silver scraps, even if she were somehow melded into something whole, she would be new—never the same as she once was. Never unbroken.
— Shona Moyce, Blood's Veil
Let someone love you just the way you are- as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe than sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room.
— Mark Hack
She is brave and strong and broken all at once. As she speaks it is as if her existence is no longer real to her in itself, more like a living epitaph to a life that was.
— Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
Sometimes broken people teach broken people how to be whole again.
— Q.Gibson
Promises are born broken, to fix them you keep them..
— Jenim Dibie
It's okay to keep a broken oven in your yard as long as you call it art.
— Jenny  Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
There comes a point where you have to stop trying to repair yourself and accept the fact that you're broken.
— Ilona Andrews, Sweep in Peace
Let's be incomplete together.
— Jenim Dibie, The Calligraphy of God
She grinned. Lifted herself up on her elbow so she could look down at him, and said, "Now that you've recovered, ready to go again?
— Dale Mayer, Scales
When they were only a foot apart, both nude, she swayed toward him. He tugged her close, feeling her shock as heated skin met hot skin. God, he wanted her. His need was something he couldn't hide. Lord was she beautiful. Long, lean, muscled, but gently rounded everywhere."Are you--"Her mouth latched onto his, silencing him as she began to explore his body.Yeah, he;d have to say...she was sure.
— Dale Mayer, Scales
Add boyish, slim as a board, pancake. It's okay, I've heard it all."He raised his head and said mildly, "I wasn't thinking in terms of your chest size.""Good thing as I don't have one." She smirked and popped a big chunk of potato into her mouth. "The nice thing is I can run without those things flying in my face, too." And damn if she didn't make a comical face that had him shouting with laughter.
— Dale Mayer, Scales
He'd never met anyone quite like her.Then he couldn't think as her hand slid down his back to his buttocks and squeezed. Her toes slowly climbed his calves, and he realized she hadn't just enjoyed the first time around. She had learned. As she slid her hand between them to find him, his eyes crossed."Christ", he whispered as her fingers closed around him, her body sliding lower and lower.She'd learned a hell of a lot.
— Dale Mayer, Scales
Seriously, how many times can a person break before the only things left are shattered fragments too small to piece back together?
— Jay McLean, Kick, Push
Broken things are precious. We eat broken bread because we share in the depth of our Lord and His broken life. Broken flowers give perfume. Broken incense is used in adoration. A broken ship saved Paul and many other passengers on their way to Rome. Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
— Fulton J. Sheen
You got beat up. Bones and bruises heal. Those girls didn't win because they didn't do what they wanted. They wanted to break you. I was already broken."You're not broken at all.
— Tijan, Fallen Crest Public
We are both broken people but our pieces fit together.
— Eunice Pinkard
We may be a little broken these days but I wouldn't trade it for anything.
— Mindee Arnett, The Nightmare Charade
...Here lie your hopes and dreams, shattered and swept aside...
— Dean Koontz, Saint Odd
She fixed me and broke me all at once.
— Claire Contreras, Darkness Before Dawn
Maybe I naively subscribed to the foolish notion that my love could save him. Whatever the reason, I entered the room and sank to the carpet beside that sad and broken boy.
— A. Meredith Walters, Find You in the Dark
In case you haven't noticed, we're already involved, Finch. And in case you haven't noticed, I'm broken too.
— Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
Broken?" I laughed. "Nah, princess. I'm a shattered fucking mess.
— Stevie J. Cole, Jag
You are not broken.Someone who did not love you,convinced you, you are...
— Dinesh Kumar Biran
These eggs are broken. Cracked.""Yes, ma'am. That happens sometimes.""Does it?""Yes, it's the unfortunate part of being an egg.
— Peter Hedges, What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Once, there were no predators, no prey. Only harmony. There were no quakes, no storms, everything in balance. In the beginning, time was all at once and forever — no past, present, and future, no death. We broke it all.
— Dean Koontz, Forever Odd
No matter who we are, we have to take the hand we're dealt, crappy though it may be, and try our very best to move forward anyway, to love anyway, to have hope anyway... to have faith that there's a purpose to the journey we're on... And try to believe that maybe more light shines out of those who have the most cracks.
— Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice
I’ll be fine. I’m always fine.
— Kiersten White, Perfect Lies
BAREFOOT BEACHTake off your shoes-You're on barefoot beach.Relax in the sunshine-Broken only by trees.
— Giorge Leedy
If one day she'll forgot the things about me, then I wish we haven't had this chance to know each other.
— Bradley B. Dalina
A man is in one piece until love finds its way to his heart ... it splits him in half ... vital to have both halves, yet excruciating to keep them glued together
— A.M.M Alusi
...the message being sent out by a broken window-the perception it invites-is that the owener of this building and the people of the community around it don't care if this window is broken: They have given up, and anarchy reigns here. Do as you will, because nobody cares.
— Michael Levine
I’m so broken inside that nothing or anyone can fix me
— Kat Unda
I am so filled with wrong I don’t remember what right is.
— Kiersten White, Mind Games
I wash myself clean of guilt, of pain, of fear, of emotion. I am the ocean. I am empty. I am nothing.
— Kiersten White, Perfect Lies
I barely know how to be with someone when I’m whole. How the hell am I supposed to be with you when I’m so fucking broken?
— Katie Ashley, Music of the Heart
As she climbed a ladder and started boarding up the smashed front windows, Helen realized that some things stay a little bit broken forever—even after they’ve been fixed.
— Josephine Angelini, Goddess
I don’t want to think about things like normal and safe, things I can’t have.
— Kiersten White, Mind Games
It seems we've been at cross purposes, doesn't it? But it's no use now. As long as there was Bonnie, there was a chance that we might be happy. I liked to think that Bonnie was you, a little girl again, before the war, and poverty had done things to you. She was so like you, and I could pet her, and spoil her, as I wanted to spoil you. But when she went, she took everything.
— Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
..Moloch who entered my soul early. Moloch in whom I am a consciousness without a body. Moloch who frightened me out of my natural ecstasy. Moloch whom I abandon. Wake up in Moloch.. Light streaming out of the sky.Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! Invisible suburbs! Skeleton treasuries! Blind capitals! Demonic industries! Spectral nations! Invincible madhouses! Granite cocks! Monstrous bombs!They broke their backs lifting Moloch to Heaven.. Pavements, trees, radios, tons. Lifting the city to Heaven which exists and is everywhere about us.
— Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems
Never run back to whatever broke you.
— Anonymous
I am a girl in want of complete destruction.
— Kiersten White, Perfect Lies
I've always loved fixing broken things.If something fixed by myself caused a smile, I'd feel saved. In that case it would be worth it. And I was delighted.
— Hiro Kiyohara, きみにしか聞こえない [Kimi ni Shika Kikoenai]
My bed is massive (I drown in it, and it doesn’t matter how big the bed is, my nightmares more than fill it)
— Kiersten White, Mind Games
When you don't know what to do, go back to the places, the people and the promises where you know you last heard God.
— Pam Farrel, Becoming a Brave New Woman
Don't look like that, Draco, you look like you did right before you pounced on the cat when you were two.
— inadaze22, Broken
You're not broken. You're perfect. And when you get to get away from these kids, you might finally have a good man.
— Ashley Newell, Freakhouse
Beautiful mosaics are made of broken or torn material. The most spectacular personal brands are compilations of the same.
— Ryan Lilly, #Networking is people looking for people looking for people
I think happy thoughts and feel happy things and I do not let myself near the swirling black edges of the hole that is my soul when I look at them.
— Kiersten White, Perfect Lies
Even when the strings are broken in our lives, the sweet music plays on in our hearts.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
It is when you are at your lowest, when you are broken and fearful of change, that you must learn to silence the voices of caution in your mind and leap forth to continue on your journey, further than you thought possible, and pounce on that prize you seek.
— S.A. Bouraleh, The Serpent's Son
No matter how hard she tried to maintain her calm and collected persona, she knew it was all a ruse. All she wanted to do was curl up in a ball and hide. Hide from the world. Hide from her memories. Enter a shell and never leave. But hers would always be a broken shell, with all her cracks and holes exposed for the world to see. The veneer she had carefully painted to protect and hold herself together was peeling away.
— Cristiane Serruya, Trust: Betrayed
Wish I could be a fragile piece of glass to accept my brokenness.
— Munia Khan
When one's life has been shattered into a million pieces, most set out to pick up the pieces & rebuild. Others look at those broken pieces & decide this is their opportunity to start anew, the bigger picture comes into view. They see more, & want better so they leave those pieces scattered as a memorial to who they used to be!
— Sanjo Jendayi
One part of Judaism called tikkum olam. It says that the world has been broken into pieces. All this chaos, all this discord. And our job – everyone’s job – is to try to put the pieces back together. To make things whole again ... Maybe we’re the pieces. Maybe what we’re supposed to do is come together. That’s how we stop the breaking.
— Rachel Cohn, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Lately I find myself staring at people’s faces... I find myself frantically searching through the crowds for one face. I don’t find that face
—  I cry inside. Weeping for the identity I know no more.
Maybe the reason nothing seems to be 'fixing you' is because you're not broken. Let today be the day you stop living within the confines of how others define or judge you. You have a unique beauty and purpose
—  live accordingly.
The broken can always be fixed
— Ricky Maye
Ending a problem is not a solution for that Problem.
— pavankumar nagaraj
My destination is only 50 miles away, all I have is a bike with a broken wheel.
— Britany Lopez
Mary praise the rosary for my broken mind.
— Lana Del Rey, Lana del Rey - Born to Die: The Paradise Edition
Sometimes that’s all it takes. Just one person to turn everything on its head. Remind you of the person you were.
— Samantha Towle, Trouble
Until you are broken, you don't know what you're made of.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
But the truth is that I'm gloomy - gloomier than I ever was during the war. Everything is so broken, Sophie: the roads, the buildings, the people. Especially the people.
— Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Maybe the reason nothing seems to be "fixing you" is because you're not broken. Let today be the day you stop living within the confines of how others define or judge you. You have a unique beauty and purpose; live accordingly.
— Steve Maraboli
Some of us are so terribly broken.
— Vannary Rang
I watched her—the way her shoulders moved with the tilt of her head, how her smile lit up the six people around her, how her hair, tucked behind her ears, framed her face like baby’s breath. I thought about how the sound of her heart beating sounded the rhythm for our dance atop the magnolia floor. I wanted to tell her all this, but didn’t know how. Just because something is broken doesn’t mean it’s no good. Doesn’t mean you throw it away. It just means it’s broken, and broken is okay. I wanted to tell her that broken is still beautiful, still works, still wakes me in the morning, and at the end of every day past and those to come, I can love broken.
— Charles Martin, Maggie
When God wants to do an impossible task, He takes an impossible person and breaks her.
— Mary E. DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus
I learned the rules mastered them like a pro. Then break them easily like an artist without any trouble." ― Sage Canny
— Sage Canny
We are all broken in some way. But it’s all the shattered pieces that give us depth. Like stained glass, it’s how the pieces and colors fit together that truly makes us beautiful.
— Adriana Law, Falling for a Bentley
Behind every dancer there’s someone that broke her, a song that moved her, a moment that inspired her and a dance floor that healed her.
— Hope Alcocer
Even things that aren't broken can be fixed.
— Lauren DeStefano, Sever
Eyes as dark as her heart and as empty as her soul
— Shayna Rodriguez
Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the worlds indifference to spilled Arab blood.
— Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin
She looked around the room, glanced over him and Micah waited.Her Gaze passed him, then again. On the third pass she lingered as she continued to watch her, allowing his gaze to memorize those features just before her eyes met his.A jolt od power flashed through him. Her ligth blue eyes flickered with interest, fear, then interest again, as though she wasn't certain which she should feel.He let his gaze continue to hers, let his mind reach out to her, soothe her, ease her. He used his eyes rather than his expression to calm the fear that he knew he would be rising within her.Micah knew the power of a look. When two people touched from across a distance, that touch could be frightening, wary, or a stroke of gentleness. He stroked her gently. He never let his eyes dip below her chin; rather, he let himself take in every nuance of expression, every shift of each facial motion, the flicker of her lashes, the shadows in her eyes, the tension in her small body.She was like a little bird ready to fly. Poised at the edge of her seat.her body stiff and prepared to run.Easy, little bird, he thought, letting his thoughts touch his gaze. There is no pain here; there is no fear.
— Lora Leigh, Maverick
This drama had become her mess to deal with, and she had no idea where to even begin trying to mend all of the broken pieces back together. If mending them was even possible.
— J.B. McGee, Mending
I may have survived, but I am broken," I remind him sadly."No, Sunny, you're just a bit battered. We both are. Or if we're broken, that's only when we're alone. But now we're together, baby! And together, we're both whole.
— Olivia Lynde, Summer's Desire
Holiness has most often been revealed to me in the exquisite pun of the first syllable, in holes- in not enough help, in brokenness, mess. High holy places, with ethereal sounds and stained glass, can massage my illusion of holiness, but in holes and lostness I can pick up the light of small ordinary progress, newly made moments flecked like pepper into the slog and the disruptions.
— Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
Um, you don’t have to join me, but if you’re looking for a table, there are a couple good seats over there.” He nodded toward the far end.
— J.M.  Richards, Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
Broken love is the most dangerous love. It will slice you open with every touch.
— Tiffany Reisz, The Siren
In Nature, things are broken with a purpose—clouds break to pour rains, rivers break to water fields, fields break to yield crops, seeds break to yield plants … so if ever you feel broken, understand that you must be part of a better and more beautiful purpose...
— Debashis Dey
You look…” he shook his head looking her up and down, “You look delicious. If I don’t get you out of here, I’m going to devour you like it’s my birthday, and you’re my cake.
— J.B. McGee, Mending
A SCAR SHOULDN’T REMIND YOU OF HOW YOU GOT HURT AND THE PAIN THAT CAME WITH IT…A SCAR SHOULD SIMPLY REMIND YOU THAT YOU SURVIVED
— mihoko shijo
In that moment her heart fell out of her chest. Like the glass filled vase he had brought to her, it dropped. It was shattered into a million small pieces.
— J.B. McGee, Broken
Anything worth having is never simple or easy, Gabby ....
— J.B. McGee, Broken
No, you were certainly not trying to seduce me, more like trying to wound my ego, break my heart, I dunno. Did you like how you felt when you walked away? Do you prefer that emotion to this?
— J.B. McGee, Broken
There are no people who are whole" he says. "Everyone has issues of their own to deal with. Mine might be a little harder, but the main thing is how on deals with them.
— Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
A broken man learned to savor what he could when he had the opportunity.
— Jennifer Ashley, The Seduction Of Elliot McBride
You make me greedy for you. I just can't get enough. I wish you would just accept it for what it is and trust me.
— J.B. McGee, Broken
If what we are doing isn't enough for you, I need you to tell me now.
— J.B. McGee, Broken
Miss Gerhart, the last time I saw you, you had quite a mouthful to shout at me. You’re really quiet today. Cat got your tongue?
— J.B. McGee, Broken
Pieces"Isn't that what all of life is anyway?Shards. Bits. Moments.Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?Am I just as full as anyone else? Enough?Pieces.Allys saying "I like you"Gabriel snorting out bread freeing me to laugh.And Ethan reminding me how much I do know.Pieces.I hold them likethey are life itself.They nearly are.
— Mary E. Pearson, The Adoration of Jenna Fox
The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Of course I’m shielding her, you broken feather!
— Kim Harrison
And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.
— Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
This pool is a triumph of imagination. That's how you win at life, Gin. You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can't be done. There's always a solution, even if it's weird.
— Maureen Johnson, The Last Little Blue Envelope
Don't get too deep, it leads to over thinking, and over thinking leads to problems that doesn't even exist in the first place.
— Jayson Engay
Quitting’s not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy.”“Really? Was that how you quit me?” And just like that, without thinking, without saying it in my head first, without arguing with myself for days, it’s out there.“So,” she says, as if speaking to an audience under the bridge. “He finally says it.
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the world beyond recall.
— Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
There is no greater torture than being forced to watch as your love, your reason for living, breathing, and existing, sinks into oblivion. Your heart stops no matter how you try to get to her, she just gets farther and farther away." ~Fane from 'Beyond the Vail'"Attention shoppers, just a brief announcement, crazy ass werewolf on isle three. Those with abundance of testosterone, don't touch their lady merchandise and you might walk out of here intact." ~Jen from 'Fate and Fury'."In the event of some sort of gathering, if one of the bossy, overbearing, possessive fur balls has not flipped his switch and attacked some poor young pup in some misguided attempt to protect his woman's virtue, then the night is not over.
— Quinn Loftis, Beyond the Veil
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike.An all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless.We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
— John Steinbeck
Fate is a funny character. She puts obstacles in your path to see what character ye have. Life isn't fair,life is a test.
— Melissa Francis, Bite Me!
I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary.
— Alan Moore, Promethea, Vol. 5
This is one hell of a suicide note.THE SUICIDE SOLILOQUY-Yes! I've resolved the deed to do, And this the place to do it;The heart I'll rush a dagger throughThough I in hell should rue it!Sweet steel! Come forth from out your sheath,And glist'ning, speak your powers;Rip up the organs of my breath,And draw my blood in showers!I strike! It quivers in that heartWhich drives me to this end;I draw and kiss the bloody dart,My last-my only friend!
— Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.
— Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer
— Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone.
— Johann Georg Hamann
...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant
— Justin Cronin, The Twelve
I was out of sorts. They are deep, my sorts, a deep ditch, and I am not often out of them.
— Samuel Beckett, Molloy
I heard you on the phone with her. I happened to be in your arms, and you happened to be inside of me, balls deep from what I remember, so I felt the difference, felt what you felt for her, heard how your voice changed when you talked to her.
— Eric Jerome Dickey
A woman of European heritage sporting a preacher's collar had the opposite effect of a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. She used her privilege and the favored religion to look like a golden child.
— Eric Jerome Dickey, Finding Gideon
I went to public school but kept to myself. When you live in a brothel, you don't want anyone coming to your home.
— Eric Jerome Dickey, Finding Gideon
I discovered that being someone you are not is often easier than living with the person you are.
— Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse
...that this monster, who is only one in form, has a heart so humane that he should not be persecuted for a deformity which he refrains from rendering more hideous by his actions...
— Gabrielle Suzanne Barbot De Villeneuve
If life gets you down.Just try digging a deeper hole.
— Anthony T. Hincks
What happens to sanity when you chain it to a wall?
— Ian Rankin, Strip Jack
Sometimes, you just meet someone who reminds you of why people get up every day, despite the weight of the world pushing against them. When you come across someone who has the strength to keep going, based on something as small as hope. Even though they have nothing good in their lives. You want to be better for them. Sometimes, you meet someone who just makes you want to be a better you. So that maybe one day, you deserve to have their light in your life.
— Tovaley B. Kysel, The Scion Princess
...khalepa ta kala...It means that that which is worth having--the good, fine, honorable, and noble things--are difficult to attain...It means something else as well...It means 'beauty is harsh'.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
When despair has hooked them and dragged them deep into the depths of their own personal Hells,” he said as he clenched his fist and turned to face his nephew again, “not many are strong enough to climb back out. You gave her something to believe in. You made her do something she never knew how to do.”“What?”“You got her to love herself. You got her to realize she deserved better, and that, is the best thing one can do for someone.
— Tovaley B. Kysel, The Scion Princess
Deep things are revealed to you in every encounter with God
— Sunday Adelaja
And that’s how we live: wandering endlessly, concentrically outward, seeking in others a kindling spark of the love which has long lain, dormant, dark, unstoked in our own deepest souls.
— Jordan Sonnenblick, Falling Over Sideways
The thing is - any author on the internet doesn't weigh nearly enough as an author in the real world.
— Joel Landau, Source Journalism and News Values
Turning his back on the village of Unwin, Chiave lumbered into the forest, barely able to walk under the weight of all he carried.
— Amanda Orneck, Shadow of the Owl
Well, Greg, I think that it just means that even after somebody dies, you can... you can still keep learning about them, you know, their life. It can keep unfolding itself to you just as long... just as long as you pay attention to it.
— Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
If all you do it "live with it"...then that's not much of a life.
— Ichigo Takano
A universe that can wink into existence can wink out again.
— Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything
Ideas are not in textbooks and journals, Ideas are more deeper than the shallow written works of men. You are the idea that comes like an idea.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, when time stalls and slips, when life -real life- seems to exist at one remove.
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hour, when time stalls and slips, when life -real life- seems to exist at one remove
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
I said that sometimes it's too much.""Well, I want someone who doesn't thinks so. I want someone who's heart is big enough to hold me.""You want someone whose love will fit around your finger.
— Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
I'm going to remember this, I told myself sternly. I'm going to remember how awful they made me feel today. So when I'm scared and alone and whatever else is going to happen to me starts to happen, I'm going to remember that nothing could be as bad as being stuck here. Nothing.
— P.C. Cast
Am I shallow? she asks the mirror. Yes, I am shallow. The sun shines on the ripples where it's shallow. Deep is too dark.
— Margaret Atwood, The Heart Goes Last
The quietness here had an agreement with dust
—  neither settled.