Cat Stevens Quotes

There are places from which you cannot return. There is damage that can be irreparable.

It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

It makes twenty years or more of peace to make a man. It takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

There's some bells you can't unring.

We came into a broken world. And we're the cleanup crew.

There's nothing funny about violence. Death is a real thing.

There's no way I can go back and uninjure myself.

Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.

But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it. Do you get what I'm saying?

It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mum. We doused the burning bush and cannot rekindle it; we are lighting matches in vain under every green tree.

The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.

Things that came apart could be put together again, but never exactly the same.

What happens to the rest of something when you smash its heart?

To repair the irreparable ravages of time.

It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.

You can’t undo something that’s happened; you can’t take back a word that’s already been said out loud.

Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.

If you break someone's leg, shouldn't you have to be the crutch for a while?

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

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.

We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.

How much damage will have been done before we act?

Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero.