Mark Lawrence Quotes

As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.

To be alive is to be vulnerable.

But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it.

Life is an incurable disease.

Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.

No, now he didn't want to let himself get too close because he knew it wasn't going to last. Good stuff never lasted. Change would come and wipe it away, and what was the point? It hurt too much every time it was ripped away and he was getting tired of losing pieces of himself. Pretty soon there wouldn't be much left, just scraps of gristle and bone without feeling. He didn't need that

We're all damaged somehow."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.

Broken china lasts longer than unbroken.

I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare.

This is how your heart gets snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away.

By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.

Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We all share the condition of brokenness even if our brokenness is not equivalent.

Everybody's damaged by something.

Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.

I've been through so much in my life. I've seen so much. I know how fast things can change. I know someone can be here one minute and gone the next.

Everyone gets hurt, but I've probably had the most injuries.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Sometimes, it is precisely when you discover that you are living very happily that you suddenly find yourself in danger. To be happy means to discover that you are exposed to being hurt.