Broken Inside Quotes:

I know too much; I've seen people at their worst, at their most desperate and selfish, and this knowledge makes me wary. So I am learning to pretend, to smile, to nod, to display empathy I do not feel. I am learning to pass, to look like everyone else, even though I feel broken inside.

- Christina Baker Kline

topic: Selfish, Broken Inside, People

When you aren't drinking or using drugs or spending lots of money on fancy toys or basking in the glow of fame or working all the time or eating your way through the refrigerator, being hateful and angry is a very handy shield from the truth. It lets you focus on everyone else's shortcomings, and all the ways they have let you down. You can bemoan how all these broken people keep finding you somehow. That way you don't have to focus on what really matters -- the tough work of fiing what is broken inside you.

- Glenn Beck

source: Glenn Beck, Keith Ablow (2012). “The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

topic: Drinking, Broken Inside, People, Spending A Lot Of Money, Basking

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

- Neil Gaiman

topic: Love, Broken Heart, Mean, My Heart Hurts, My Heart Is Broken

In this busy modernized age, it's easy to be blind to the light all around us. You see, there truly are real angels living among us that look just like you and I. If you pay attention, you can spot one because they're quite easy to find. They're the souls with the eternally deep eyes that always act like something is broken inside, but fail to realize it's just their wings.

- Suzy Kassem

topic: Real, Eye, Angel, Broken Inside

She knows too well what it's like to tamp down your natural inclinations, to force a smile when you feel numb....The expression of emotion does not come naturally, so yo learn to fake it. To pretend. To display an empathy you don't really feel. And so it is that you learn to pass, if you're lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you're broken inside.

- Christina Baker Kline

topic: Expression, Broken, Fake, Broken Inside

You don't write because someone sets assignments! You write because you need to write, or because you hope someone will listen or because writing will mend something broken inside you or bring something back to life.

- Joanne Harris

topic: Writing, Broken, Needs, Broken Inside

What are you going to do?,' he asked me. Me? Nothing. Something has just been broken inside me; you yourself will never be able to repair it.

- Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry

topic: Broken, Able, Broken Inside

And so it is that you learn how to pass, if you're lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you're broken inside.

- Christina Baker Kline

topic: Broken, Lucky, Looks, Broken Inside

Astley comes to my side. 'Are you well?' 'No,' I tell him, voice hoarse. 'I am not well. I am broken inside. I am broken almost all-the-way deep, and I don't know...I don't know if I can ever be unbroken, let alone well again'

- Carrie Jones

source: Carrie Jones (2011). “Entice”, p.83, A&C Black

topic: Voice, Broken, Way, Broken Inside

She wants to go home, but nobody's home. That's why she lies, broken inside. With no place to go, no place to go, to dry her eyes, broken inside.

- Avril Lavigne

source: Avril Lavigne, “Nobody's Home (Avril Lavigne Song)”

topic: Lying, Home, Eye, Broken Inside