Sylvia Plath
Poet, Novelist
"I felt dull and flat and full of shattered visions."
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Shattered
26 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Ali Smith
Author
"Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness."
Oprah Winfrey
Television host, producer, philanthropist
"If you feel incomplete, you alone must fill yourself with love in all your empty shattered spaces"
Djuna Barnes
Author, Poet
"There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole."
Rainer Maria Rilke
Poet, Novelist
"Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces."
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"After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for his pouch, and there was some tobacco in it, and that was something more. Then he felt for matches and he could not find any at all, and that shattered his hopes completely."
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