John Connolly Quotes

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

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

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.

Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.

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

Love is a horse with a broken leg trying to stand while 45,000 people watch.

Because i've suffered. Because many times in my life i have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being trampled or betrayed.

Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.

Everybody's damaged by something.

The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.

That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.

People play with pain all the time.

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.

Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.

The heart was made to be broken.

Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.

After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.

He stared at her fists and at her face and said with upset incredulity, "You promised me you would forgive me-" "Forgive you,"Tatiana hissed through her teeth, tears streaming down her face, "for your brave and indifferent face, Alexander!" She groaned in pain. "Not for your brave and indifferent heart.

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

Who hasn't sharpened the edge of his soul? When, just as our eyes are opened, we see hate, and just after learning to walk, we are tripped, and just for wanting to love, we are hated, and for no more than touching, we are hurt, which of us hasn't started to arm himself, to make himself sharp, somehow, like a knife, to pay back the hurt?

Sometimes broken people stay broken.

The one thing all that battle taught me, is that no one walks away without scars. No one. (Bad Moon Rising)

The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.

No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.