Breaking Apart Quotes:

I'm putting up a great front, then because I feel like I'm breaking apart inside.

- Christine Feehan

source: Christine Feehan (2011). “Dark Prince: Number 1 in series”, p.107, Hachette UK

topic: Breaking Apart, Feels, Fronts

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

- Marilyn Monroe

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, When Things Go Wrong, Times Have Changed

Some god or Weltgeist has been making a movie out of us for the past six thousand years, and now we have turned a corner on the movie set of reality and have discovered the boards propping up the two-dimensional monuments of human history. The movement of humanism has reached its limit, and now at that limit it is breaking apart into the opposites of mechanism and mysticism and moving along the circumference of a vast new sphere of posthuman thought.

- William Irwin Thompson

source: William Irwin Thompson (1980). “Passages about Earth: An Exploration of the New Planetary Culture”, HarperCollins

topic: Moving, Past, Reality, Human Thought, Breaking Apart

Striding tall through Lauren St John's gorgeously written memoir is her father, and chapter after chapter their relationship is untangled and celebrated. Joy and a hunger for life infuse this book -- whether St John is writing about the harrowing years of Rhodesia's civil war, her childhood adventures in the bush, or the breaking apart of her family. Rainbow's End is a most generous and wise book.

- Lisa Fugard

topic: Wise, Father, War, Rhodesia, Breaking Apart

Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.

- Wally Schirra

topic: Break Up, Wife, Apollo, Breaking Apart

Will African-Americans break away from the pack thinking and reject immorality-- because that's the reason the family's breaking apart--alcohol, drugs, infidelity. You have to reject that, and it doesn't seem--and I'm broadly speaking here, but a lot of African-Americans won't reject it

- Bill O'Reilly

topic: Thinking, Alcohol, Drug, Breaking Apart

I don't know what's wrong with me. It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart.

- Stephen Chbosky

topic: Writing, Breaking Apart

One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world - your little carved-out sphere - is twisting and morphing, even breaking apart.

- Lauren Oliver

topic: World, Littles, Spheres, Morphing, Oblivious

closed my eyes and listened. It was like music I'd heard all my life, even more than "This Lullaby." All those keystrokes, all those letters, so many words. I brushed my fingers over the beads and watched as her image rippled, like it was on water, breaking apart gently and shimmering before becoming whole again.

- Sarah Dessen

topic: Eye, Water, Letters, Lullaby, Becoming Whole

Safety is relative. You can be so close to shore that you can practically feel it under your feet, when you suddenly find yourself breaking apart on the rocks.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.453, Simon and Schuster

topic: Rocks, Feet, Safety, Breaking Apart

it it strange, suddenly having a memory come back out of nowhere. you think you're going crazy; you wonder where this recollection has been hiding all your life. you try to push it away, because you think you've hammered out the whole timeline of your life, but then you see that one extra moment, and suddendly you are breaking apart what you though was a solid segment, and seeing it for what it is: just a string of events, shoulder to shoulder, and a gap where there is room for one more.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Memories, Crazy, Thinking, Timelines, Going Crazy

They would always be a family, but if she'd learned anything in the past few weeks it was that a family wasn't a static thing. There were always changes going on. Like with continents, sometimes the changes were invisible and underground, and sometimes they were explosive and deadly. The trick was to keep your balance. You couldn't control the direction of your family any more than you could stop the continental shelf from breaking apart. All you could do was hold on for the ride.

- Kristin Hannah

source: Kristin Hannah (2014). “The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front”, p.216, St. Martin's Griffin

topic: Past, Balance, Sometimes, Breaking Apart

I leaned forward and kissed him. And again. As if I were passing him all those silent words I cound not say, the ones that explained my biggest secret: that I might not have OI but I knew how he (Adam) felt. That I was breaking apart, too, all the time."-Amelia

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Secret, Might, Silent, Amelia, Breaking Apart

The largest fear in the world is to speak in public. We fear of stumbling, or public humiliation, and so we're fearing a face-to-face rejection. So, we'll say things in a text or e-mail that we would never say face-to-face. So, relationships are coming together faster and breaking apart faster, and they're a little bit more disposable.

- Ashton Kutcher

topic: Rejection, Together, World, Breaking Apart