#shatter

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#eternal #his #human #human being #individual

I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner and she invited me to dinner and the hostess had seen me and said, 'You cannot bring him.' but I think that I've done enough to shatter the image. ↗

— Michael York

#been #bring #british #cannot #dinner

To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#function #hope #idea #liberate #means

In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with unguessed kinship. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#meaninglessness #nature-and-man #equality

When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone. ↗

— Tori Amos

#everything #just #mothers #shatter #start

Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame. ↗

— Gordon Lightfoot

#being #blame #call #dream #ever

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

— Dennis Quaid

#break up #death #identity #like #shattered

Show me some magic...please ↗

— Ankur Kumar Shah

#broken #hope #hopeless #love #magic

The desperation his expression,the anguish carved into his features, the way he looks at me, like he might die if I do. ↗

— taherah mafi

#shatter-me #taherah-mafi #unravel-me #love

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. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#cart #even #hopeless #inspection #into