Broken Things Quotes

“And Jabim is the Lord of broken things, who sitteth behind the house to lament the things that are cast away. And there he sitteth lamenting the broken things until the worlds be ended, or until someone cometh to mend the broken things. Or sometimes he sitteth by the river's edge to lament the forgotten things that drift upon it.

A kindly god is Jabim, whose heart is sore if anything be lost.”
― Lord Dunsany, The Gods of Pegana

“The universe sometimes breaks things without telling them why - that is when the process of healing will hurt the most.”
― Laura Chouette

“River: There’s nothing wrong with being broken. Some things aren’t meant to be whole. And some things don’t need to be fixed.

Priest: Some things are broken and aren’t meant to be fixed. But that doesn’t mean they’re fine the way they are. It just means they are the way they are. There’s no changing them or undoing the past. There’s no gluing the pieces back together and remaking the whole how it once was. There’s just sorting through the shards and making something new out of them. That’s all you can do.”
― Eva Ashwood, Kings of Chaos

“Most people these days chase new things - new houses, new cars, new objects. But, they don't realise that old houses, old cars, and old objects have something that new things don't have - their history and culture.

We must look at life from each other's perspective. There is nothing fascinating about chasing new things.

My Mom and Dad choose to stay in our old house in my hometown, because it was the house they built with their hard work and love. It is the house where my mother writes her beautiful poetry. It is the house where my father treats his patients. It is a house which has books, culture, cracks and yes history.”
― Avijeet Das

“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 :)

“Many things get broken in a war.”
― Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

“She paints all kinds of things: stones, rocks, cracked walls, old houses, broken bicycles. She loves old things; the history attached with dilapidated structures. The strugglers of life have a soul she says.

A building has a soul; the architect who designed it gave a part of his soul. And the workers who gave their sweat and blood to build it gave a part of their soul too.

New things make her feel revolted. She asks "Where is their soul?"
Of what good is a broken bicycle I ask her. She flashes me a contemptuous look. As she knows that I already know her answer.”
― Avijeet Das

“Sometimes you gots to choose what you see. And sometimes God uses broken things to save us.”
― Janyre Tromp, Shadows in the Mind's Eye

“All broken things.
Augmented with hope of Gold.
A new Kentsugi Heart.

(Haiku)”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“Imagination starts where nothing works. Where people say: Nothing works—this is a disaster. I say: I’ll take it from here.”
― Giannina Braschi, Putinoika

“Broke my skin, fractured the rim, only one to rescind with such skill.”
― Dominic Riccitello