Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist “Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.” Men Done Broken ♥ 3
James Joyce Novelist, Poet “Broken heart. A pump after all, pumping thousands of gallons of blood every day. One fine day it gets bunged up and there you are... Old rusty pumps: damn the thing else. The resurrection and the life. Once you are dead you are dead.” Heart Blood Broken ♥ 3
ML Mark Lawrence Author “something in me had got broken, but not so broken I didn't remember what it was.” Remember Broken ♥ 3
LA Lily Allen Singer-Songwriter “I've actually broken up with boyfriends for inspiration.” Inspiration Broken ♥ 3
Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher “Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background. They should at least, like the life of the anchorite, be as impressive to behold as objects in a desert, a broken shaft or crumbling mound against a limitless horizon.” Life Broken Solitude ♥ 3
James Russell Lowell Poet, Essayist “It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.” Purpose Broken Vain ♥ 3
Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor “In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.” Years Summer Broken ♥ 3
Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor “To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.” Broken Cost Viruses ♥ 3
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poet, Educator “The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed.” Broken Flames Smoking ♥ 3
Friedrich Schiller Playwright, Poet “A sublime soul can rise to all kinds of greatness, but by an effort; it can tear itself from all bondage, to all that limits and constrains it, but only by strength of will. Consequently the sublime soul is only free by broken efforts.” Effort Broken Greatness ♥ 3
Friedrich Schiller Playwright, Poet “Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!” Broken Promise Sorrow ♥ 3
Mark Twain Writer, Humorist “My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular intervals this neutrality was broken, and suffering ensued; but I will be candid enough to say that the breaking and the suffering were always divided up with strict impartiality between us--which is to say, my father did the breaking, and I did the suffering.” Father Boys Broken ♥ 3
