„We are broken open, or we willfully shed.“

„What moral obligation do you have to those who willfully refuse to open their eyes and deem you mad for seeing?“

—  Norman Spinrad, libro The Void Captain's Tale

Origine: The Void Captain's Tale (1983), Chapter 14 (p. 189)

„Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.“

—  Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay British historian and Whig politician 1800 - 1859

Epitaph on a Jacobite (1845)

„We work with broken families and broken people who've lost hope and are helpless.“

—  Kailash Satyarthi Indian children's rights activist 1954

Times of India interview (2014)
Contesto: We work with broken families and broken people who've lost hope and are helpless. If people oppose my work, launch personal attacks, we know that we are on the right path. One colleague was shot, another was beaten to death. I've injuries all over my body. We work against a social evil. If this evil isn't reacting it means we aren't a threat.

„We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken.“

—  E. Lockhart, libro We Were Liars

Origine: We Were Liars

„Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.“

—  Natalie Clifford Barney writer and salonist 1876 - 1972

As quoted in The Amazon of Letters, Ch. 10 (1976) by George Wickes

„It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.“

—  Jean Paul Sartre, libro Il diavolo e il buon Dio

Act 1
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

„How odd it is that we so often weep for each other’s distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!“

—  Anne Brontë, libro La signora di Wildfell Hall

Origine: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXII : Comparisons: Information Rejected; Helen

„We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.“

—  Clive Barker, libro Galilee

Origine: Galilee

„We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.“

—  Oscar Wilde, libro De profundis

De Profundis (1897)

„We few. We happy few.
We band of brothers, for he today
That sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother.“

—  William Shakespeare, Henry V

Origine: Henry V

„Without love, we are birds with broken wings.“

—  Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

Origine: Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)

„We are all broken—that’s how the light gets in.“

—  Ernest Hemingway American author and journalist 1899 - 1961

„This is exactly how minds are opened: through honest, frank dialogue. Tears may be shed, but not blood.“

—  Ayaan Hirsi Ali Dutch feminist, author 1969

Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (2010)

„It is to be broken. It is to be
torn open. It is not to be
reached and come to rest in
ever. I turn against you,
I break from you, I turn to you.
We hurt, and are hurt,
and have each other for healing.
It is healing. It is never whole.“

—  Wendell Berry author 1934

Origine: The Collected Poems, 1957-1982

„There is a difference between not understanding and being willfully obtuse.“

—  M. K. Hobson American writer 1969

Origine: The Hidden Goddess (2011), Chapter 18, “The Talleyrand Maneuver” (p. 275)

„We are not the healers, we are not the reconcilers, we are not the givers of life. We are sinful, broken, vulnerable people who need as much care as anyone we care for.“

—  Henri Nouwen Dutch priest and writer 1932 - 1996

In the Name of Jesus (1989)

„They reciprocated the great and saving lie--that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things--willfully playing the parts they wrote for themselves, willfully creating and believing fictions necessary for life.“

—  Jonathan Safran Foer, libro Ogni cosa è illuminata

Origine: Everything Is Illuminated

„We should not shed tears
That is a surrender of the body to the heart
It is only proof
That we are beings that do not know
What to do with out hearts“

—  Tite Kubo Japanese manga artist 1977

Origine: Bleach, Volume 01

„We must never shed tears
That is the life form’s defeat and if we give into the emotions then it only becomes proof of our inability to control it.“

—  Tite Kubo Japanese manga artist 1977