Broken People Quotes

“Some of the most beautiful things worth having in your life come wrapped in a crown of thorns.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“You will never see things as they are; you will only see things as you are.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“When people are broken on the outside, society is taught to never be rude to them. When people are broken on the inside, society is taught to rub happiness in their faces and show them how perfect life should be. When someone has half of an arm, you are not supposed to go up to them and show them how great of an arm wrestler you are. But when someone has a broken mind or a broken soul, you're taught to go up to them and tell them to look for joy in everything. Society has a very long way to go in terms of what it means to heal this world's broken people.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“There are two things that may happen to a person: the first is that you become so soft that no one and nothing can break you, and the second is that you become so hard that nothing and no one can break you. Either way you go, the path will be very painful. But herein is the great sadness of it all: that anyone must try to become something that cannot be broken (whether the soft or the hard). Why must we be born into a world where we must spend our lives struggling to become unbreakable?”
― C. JoyBell C.

“In this life, we reap the results of everything that we do; even if the things that we do and the things that we become, are the direct results of circumstances that we could have never controlled, in the first place. They say we are never given more than we can handle; but I don't believe that. We are often given more than we can handle, and that's why so many of us are so broken. The jar breaks when there's too much to handle. The only beauty in all of this, is that jars can be repaired with gold; and because of that, they can become even more beautiful than they were before.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“...healing isn’t just the part that looks like healing. You don’t just get fixed in a weekend. You have to keep making the choice to fix yourself. Every time you choose to be nice to yourself instead of being unkind. Every time you decide to experience life fully in all its shades of joy and sorrow. Every time you participate in the boring drudgery of self-care. The whole thing was the healing—everything that came before and everything that’s happened after.”
― Sam Lansky, Broken People

“It’s strange how easy it was, once we tried, to just spend time being broken together.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Tied Within

“We are all broken. I mean, aren't we now? I am. The whole wide world is.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“I can't pretend to be all better because that's what you want.”
― Krystal Sutherland, Our Chemical Hearts

“The light only truly shines through people who have been broken.”
― Julie Ann Walker, Built to Last

“Rather than assuming weakness or defectiveness, we should acknowledge that getting through depression requires considerable strength. Rather than assuming permanent debility, we should recognize that some depressions are followed by thriving.”
― Jonathan Rottenberg, The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic

“So tell me: were you born broken just like me, born hungry? Are we all of us born with some part of us missing? Are we each us born with a hole?....Born with a hole and no earthly way of finding just the exact right plug to fill it, not 'til you've tried 'em from A to Z and back once more: booze, fags, work, candy, men, girls, heroin, methedrine, methadone, God. Tried having a baby. Tried killing yourself. A hundred religions, from Calvin to the Dalai Lama and back again; tried every damn thing you could think of and some you had to stumble over....You stick a plug in your weakness like a finger in the proverbial dike and let pressure build up let it swell and swell 'til there's nothing left but tension, nothing left but what's left over--the absence, not the presence. The wound you shape your soul around.”
― Gemma Files, We Will All Go Down Together

“The children never troubled themselves about whether they were fixable or not, as they did not consider themselves broken in the first place. You may decide for yourself what to think about it, but it is worth remembering that often people who are told they need fixing are perfectly fine as they are. It is our own narrow notion of how things ought to be that is truly in need of repair.”
― Maryrose Wood, The Long-Lost Home

“People who can't communicate think everything is an argument.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The idea of loving and helping “broken” people seems romantic. I’m going to rescue girls from the sex trade. I’m going to see addicts freed from drugs. I’m going to protect abused women. Then you get hurt.”
― jamie west zumwalt, Beloved Chaos: moving from religion to Love in a red light district

“Steve's laugh was brittle. “Sarah, we all have our own wounds. We’re all broken in our own way. Mine might look different than yours, but they were deep enough to enlarge my heart.”
― Talena Winters, Finding Heaven

“It's a lie that all the elements work together in unison—they fight for prominence, just as we fight for the one we need, filling our core, giving us life.
I needed air to move.
To end.
To begin.”
― Rachel Thompson

“This one night we were smoking a joint up on the roof of this apartment over on Santa Monica and Wyatt said, ‘I love you so much and I don’t understand why you don’t love me.’
I said, ‘I love you as much as I’m willing to love anybody.’/
And then he had this chorus about me having a big heart but no love in it. I kept looking at the words, thinking, This isn’t right. He didn’t understand me at all. So I thought about it for a little while and got out a pen and paper. I wrote some things down.
When he woke up, I said, ‘Your chorus should be more like Big eyes, big soul/big heart, no control/but all she got to give is tiny love.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Broken people do broken things, but it doesn't mean that those things should be excused. Like broken things, broken people can be 'mended'.”
― Naomi Abiah :)

“So tell me: were you born broken just like me, born hungry? Are we all of us born with some part of us missing? Are we each us born with a hole?....Born with a hold and no earthly way of finding just the exact right plug to fill it, not 'til you've tried 'em from A to Z and back once more: booze, fags, work, candy, men, girls, heroin, methedrine, methadone, God. Tried having a baby. Tried killing yourself. A hundred religions, from Calvin to the Dalai Lama and back again; tried every damn thing you could think of and some you had to stumble over....You stick a plug in your weakness like a finger in the proverbial dike and let pressure build up let it swell and swell 'til there's nothing left but tension, nothing left but what's left over--the absence, not the presence. The wound you shape your soul around.”
― Gemma Files, We Will All Go Down Together

“Andrew stood, facing Peter and Natalie with a wry smile on his face. "You know, one of the reasons I started this sanctuary is because the best way to treat broken animals is with broken people. Each fixes the other.”
― Dawn Reno Langley, The Mourning Parade

“We didn’t explode.
It was more a quiet implosive retreat.
Patiently gathering my forces and wits,
Strategically placing every moment on my hidden board of fools.”
― Rachel Thompson

“In stories, a person can be terrible just because, but in real life, I don't think that is true. In real life, people are terrible because they are broken, or people are terrible because they are lonely, or people are terrible because they want or need something they can't have and they justify all sorts of crimes in order to get it. And sometimes, people are terrible because they are afraid.”
― Kelly Barnhill, winner of the Newbery Award for The Girl Who Drank the Moon

“When someone tells you who and what they are. Believe them the first time. They know themselves better than you do. They know what they’ve lived. You don’t. You only see an exterior. And whether you choose to invalidate them or not then, is up to the person that ‘you’ are.”
― Maya Angelou

“After all, maybe that was the most beautiful part of God's mercy. Not that it made people perfect, but that it could take broken people, make them whole again, and give them a happy, bright tomorrow.”
― Naomi Rawlings, Love's Bright Tomorrow

“Maybe that’s how Eric felt about him, too, and this realization felt like the most vicious twist of the knife—that you had to see people as they truly were, not for who you wanted them to be.”
― Sam Lanksy

“I think there are two types of people. Ones who have a scream inside them and ones who don’t. People who have a scream are too angry or too sad or laugh too hard, swear too much, use drugs or never sit still. Sometimes they sing at the top of their lungs with the windows rolled down. I don’t think people are born with it. I think other people put it inside you with the things they do to you, and say to you, or the things you see them say or do to other people. And I don’t think you can get rid of it. If you don’t have a scream, you can’t understand.”
― Wendy Walker

“We like to fix broken people. We like to care for others. Nurture them. But the truth is, we can’t fix people. People must fix themselves.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“I think if we stop running towards broken arms, we’d all be just fine.”
― Dominic Riccitello