Quotes about break
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“Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space…”

Mario Vargas Llosa (1936) Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, and essayist

Life, Books, Time

“One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline…. But also every single day a kid needs a break.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Children

“Everyone cries sometimes, Tory. There are some pains that run too deep for even the strongest to take without breaking. I don’t think any less of you for it. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Pain, Thinking

“But, true, I’ve wept too much! Dawns break hearts./ Every moon is brutal, every sun bitter.”

Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet

Variant: But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

Sun, Heart

“If you come back; I'll marry you. If you break your promise, you'll break my heart”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Heart

“You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.”

Thomas Moore Irish Melodies

Farewell! But Whenever You Welcome the Hour, st. 3. <br class="br">Source: Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)

“Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.”

Ray Bradbury book Death Is a Lonely Business

Source: Death Is a Lonely Business

“I close my eyes. And i scream. If my whole world is crashing down around me, then I am going to make the sound of the crashing. I want to scream until all my bones break.”

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

World

“Trace cursed. He actually wanted to hit something, but a tree would break his knuckles, he didn't want to put another dent in the truck, and Dare would hit back.”

Lori Foster (1958) American writer

Source: Trace of Fever

Tree

“The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi

Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

Life, Death, Light, Christ

“I am not breaking my rules,' I snapped, hating that I'd ended up on the advice-recieving end of things, jumping from Dear Remy to Confused in Cincinnati all in one summer.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

Hate, Summer

“Each day I live in a glass room
Unless I break it with the thrusting
Of my senses and pass through
The splintered walls to the great landscape.”

Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) English writer, artist, poet and illustrator

"Each Day I Live in a Glass Room," A Reverie of Bone and other Poems (1967)

Sense

“Whatever, crazy chick who maybe lives here and maybe also breaks into Michael's house when they're all gone. I'm out. Have a nice delusion. -Shayne”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Housing

“Green grass breaks through snow,
Artemis pleads for my help,
I am so cool.”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

Grass, Help

“The things that break your heart when you think there`s nothing left to break”

Meg Rosoff book How I Live Now

Source: How I Live Now

Thinking, Heart

“He can touch your soul. And there is a difference between having your heart break and having your soul shatter.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Soul, Heart

“Annabeth sat up and glared at her ankle.
"You HAD to break," she scolded it.
The ankle did not reply.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.”

Robert Fulghum (1937) American writer

Problem, Housing

“Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking.
- Tin Man”

L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Heart

“… there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe - but bored. Or you can care greatly, live greatly, until life breaks you on its wheel.”

Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879–1958) American author and social activist

Life, Way, Indifference

“Who am I helping, what am I breaking, what am I giving, what am I taking?”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Help

“Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.”

Jim Butcher Dead Beat

Source: Dead Beat

Feeling, Intelligence

“Adrian stood there leaning against the doorframe, watching me with his heart in his eyes. In my chest, my own heart was breaking. On my cheek, the lily reminded me who I was.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

Heart

“Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our hearts, or make us angry enough to change the world.”

Grant Morrison (1960) writer

Source: Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

World, Hope, Change, Reading

“In his eyes, there was no trace of what had happened earlier, and I could feel something inside me break. So that was that. We were finally, finally over.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Goodbye, Feeling

“He caught her by the wrist, brought her hand to his bare chest. Splayed her fingers over his heart. It beat against her palm, like a fist punching its way through his sternum. 'Break my heart,' he said. 'Break it in pieces. I give you permission.”

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Source: Lord of Shadows

Way, Heart

“There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.”

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet

Love, Heart

“Doesn't matter who it is
I'll friggin break 'em
-Grimmjow jaggerjaques”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Source: Bleach, Volume 24

“They didn't break me. I broke myself.”

Max Brooks book World War Z

Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

“THREE THINGS TO REMEMBER As long as you’re dancing, you can break the rules. Sometimes breaking the rules is just extending the rules. Sometimes there are no rules.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: A Thousand Mornings

Dance

“You've been busy using your breaking and entering skills," I said.
"I just enter. I don't usually break."
"You broke down Pitch's door."
"Lost my temper."

-Ranger and Stephanie”

Janet Evanovich book To the Nines

Source: To the Nines

Business

“Anyone worth knowing breaks once. Once. No shame, no foul if you survive it. You did.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Bloodfever

“Hearts don't really break. If only they could.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 22/11/63

Heart

“Who are these people?" my mother asked.
"Guess," replied Abe flatly. "Who would be foolish enough to break into court after escaping it?”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

People

“People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.”

Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest

Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

People

“Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

Love

“It's fairly easy to break hearts, Miss Duvall. The more interesting challenge is how to keep someone's love, not to lose it.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Someone to Watch Over Me

Love, Heart

“To love someone was not what she had expected. It was like falling from somewhere high up and breaking in half, and only one person having the secret to the puzzle of putting her back together.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Love, Secret, Personality

“Shoes off in the whale! And don't try and make a break for the anus.”

Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy

Source: Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

Shoe

“I wondered if Olympus had gone to a commercial break, or if our ratings had been any good.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

“It's painful and it's messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again.”

Tony Parsons (1953) British writer

Source: Man and Wife

Pain

“It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

For women, Hope, Positive, Heart

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.”

Pat Conroy (1945–2016) American novelist

Travel

“But there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you--knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don't let it break you when you discover that.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

People, Hurt

“I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.”

Diana Gabaldon book Dragonfly in Amber

Source: Dragonfly in Amber

Romantic, Flowers, Heart

“It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Perfection

“I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose… it'll be much harder to detect.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Hell, Parting

“If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?”

Kabir (1440–1518) Indian mystic poet

Thinking

“It's healthy to say uncle when your bone's about to break.”

Jonathan Franzen book How to Be Alone

Source: How to Be Alone

“Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me”

Chuck Klosterman book Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

Source: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

Hurt

“The aim of literature… is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”

Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) American writer, editor, and professor

"Florence Green is 81".
Source: Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964)
Context: His examiner... said severely: "Baskerville, you blank round, discursiveness is not literature." "The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart."

Literature, Heart

“… maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.”

Laura Hillenbrand book Seabiscuit: An American Legend

Source: Seabiscuit: An American Legend

Heart