(619 quotes found)
“And every occasion when a mask was torn off, an ideal broken, was preceded by this hateful vacancy and stillness, this deathly constriction and loneliness and unrelatedness, this waste and empty hell of lovelenessness and despair, such as I had now t”
Hermann Hesse
“Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent”
Will Durant
“Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“And when she ceased, we sighing saw / The floor lay paved with broken hearts.”
Richard Lovelace
“Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.”
Henry Miller
“The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.”
H. G. Wells
“Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven”
Charles Williams
“I gave you my whole heart. You gave it back in pieces.”
Shane Pendley
“If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“Some girls aren't searching for 'Mr. Right' they are looking for Mr. Right Now.”
Leif Ericsson Leo Veness
