Damaged Quotes

• My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Music
  • Guitar
  • Psychosomatic

• I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.

  

  Emily St. John Mandel
  • Life
  • Home
  • Earth

• We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't believe in Americans, who will?

  

  Mitch Daniels
  • American
  • Economy
  • Rebuild

• Damaged people gravitate towards damaged people.

  

  Norman Reedus
  • People
  • Damaged
  • Gravitate

• All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Person
  • Damaged
  • Family Life

• Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could be purged, somehow, of the projected not-them badness that they internalized and perhaps have acted out because their souls have been so damaged? Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could find the joy that comes with committing to our own goodness? Perhaps we would stop dividing ourselves into malignancies of various forms.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Committing
  • Malignancy
  • Projected

• I think I will tell her to come here, and if her house is damaged, I can go back with her and help with the cleanup. I'm just glad she's not in the Superdome.

  

  Ann Miller
  • House
  • Glad
  • Superdome

• There is a need for closeness, yet we can't get too close. The teacher-pupil relationship is a kind of tightrope to be walked. I know how carefully I must choose a word, a gesture. I understand the delicate balance between friendliness and familiarity, dignity and aloofness. I am especially aware of this in trying to reclaim Ferone. I don't know why it's so important to me. Perhaps because he, too, is a rebel. Perhaps because he's been so damaged. He's too bright and too troubled to be lost in the shuffle.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Relationship
  • Teacher
  • Balance

• The pressure on the engineering community at that time was to prove they could design buildings that wouldn't be damaged by earthquakes. We are still doing that.

  

  Chris Poland Circle Jerks
  • Community
  • Design
  • Pressure

• Pompeii is an extraordinary place to be because it was preserved exactly as it was. There are many other sites. If you visit any other antiquity-type sites throughout the world, they're very damaged with what's gone on over the centuries since they were abandoned. But this one was just, like, sealed, so you're looking at rock surfaces and the carving of letters and names in the stones looks like it was done yesterday.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Letters
  • Stones
  • Visit

• You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Life
  • Work
  • Success

• Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

  

  Josephine Hart
  • People
  • Survive
  • Damaged

• The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand.

  

  Juan Manuel Fangio
  • Hand
  • Damaged
  • Gear

• Even in his damaged state, he could light up a room. He could fill it with a presence that was large and rare.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Light
  • Room
  • Damaged

• As long as there's such a thing as time, everybody's damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner or later.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Happens
  • Changed
  • Damaged

• Only two towers remained standing, one of which was so crooked and damaged it looked ready to topple at a cough from a butterfly.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Butterfly
  • Damaged
  • Remained

• Who wasn't squatting in one of the handful of prefabricated subject positions proffered by capital or whatever you wanted to call it, lying every time she said "I"; who wasn't a bit player in a looped infomercial for the damaged life?

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Life
  • Player
  • Positions

• I'd say every second building is damaged - some completely.

  

  Alan Green
  • Building
  • Damaged

• Muscle is constantly being used - constantly being damaged. If every time we tore a muscle or every time we stretched a muscle or moved in a wrong way, cancer occurred - I mean, everybody would have cancer almost.

  

  Eva Vertes
  • Cancer
  • Muscle
  • Damaged

• When the need is so great, no matter how much love you pour into a bowl, it will never be full. Or sometimes it is damaged, and the love all runs out through the hole in the bottom.

  

  Elizabeth Chadwick
  • Love
  • Runs
  • Hole

• When I was fifteen, all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody’s reach. A place beyond the flow of time.” - But there’s no place like that in this world. - Exactly. Which is why I’m living here, in this world where things are continually damaged, where the heart is fickle, where time flows past without a break.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Heart
  • Wanted
  • Reach

• The moment the organic unity of belief and behaviour is damaged in any way, we are incapable of living out the full humanity for which we were created.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Humanity
  • Unity
  • Created