Broken Spirit Quotes:

I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.

- Rose Kennedy

topic: Children, Broken Spirit, Risk, Broken Bone

America has a broken spirit, that the people that are saying, "Please help me, please let me keep my home, please let me keep my car, please recognize me as a vital human being," they are falling on deaf ears.

- Suze Orman

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Fall, Home, Broken Spirit, Deaf Ears, Saying Please

Married men live longer. Yes. And an indoor cat also lives longer. It's a furball with a broken spirit, that can only look out on a world it can never enjoy. But it does technically live longer.

- Bill Maher

topic: Cat, Men, Broken Spirit

How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?

- Yann Martel

source: Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.290, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Broken Spirit, Long, Water

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

topic: Inspirational, Life, Strength, Strong Man, I Am Strong

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

- Rumi

topic: Inspirational, Life, Broken Heart, Inspirational Sufi, Sufi Love

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

- James M. Barrie

topic: Love, Happiness, Broken Heart, Love And Heartbreak, My Heart Is Broken

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

- Ali ibn Abi Talib

topic: Squash, Broken, Broken Promises, Broken Spirit, Broken Man

A church without the broken is a broken church.

- Ed Stetzer

topic: Broken, Church, Brokenness, Broken Spirit, Broken Man

Towards himself a Christian should have a broken spirit, but towards God it should be one of rejoicing always in Him. He rejoices not for its own sake nor because of any joyful experience, work, blessing or circumstance, but exclusively because God is his center.

- Watchman Nee

topic: Christian, Blessing, Broken, Broken Spirit

The outrages of the powerful, the insolence of the rich, scorn of the proud, and malice of the uncharitable, all beating against the broken spirit of the unfortunate.

- Elizabeth Montagu

source: Elizabeth Robinson Montagu, Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) (1809). “The letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu: with some of the letters of her correspondents”, p.226

topic: Powerful, Broken, Proud, Insolence, Broken Spirit

I don't despise you for what you allowed to happen to me. I despise you because when I was released, you refused to be found and I needed you more than anything in my life. Not to mend my broken bones, Arjuro. I needed my brother to mend my broken spirit.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Brother, Broken, Spirit, Broken Spirit, Broken Bone

Some of you guys must have real jobs - office jobs. Anybody? By a show of broken spirits.

- Christian Finnegan

topic: Office Jobs, Broken Spirit