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21 " Positivist man is a curious creature who dwells in the tiny island of light composed of what he finds scientifically " meaningful," while the whole surrounding area in which ordinary men live from day to day and have their dealings with other men is consigned to the outer darkness of the " meaningless." Positivism has simply accepted the fractured being of modern man and erected a philosophy to intensify it. Existentialism, whether successfully or not, has attempted instead to gather all the elements of human reality into a total picture of man. Positivist man and Existentialist man are no doubt offspring of the same parent epoch, but, somewhat as Cain and Abel were, the brothers are divided unalterably by temperament and the initial choice they make of their own being. "
22 " In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them. One way or another we are living the stories planted in us early or along the way, we are also living the stories we planted - knowingly or unknowingly - in ourselves. We live the stories that either give our lives meaning, or negate it with meaninglessness. If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change or lives. "
― Ben Okri , A Way of Being Free
23 " Our past sins, our fractured lives--soon nothing but drowned stars in dark skies. "
― Beatriz Fitzgerald Fernandez , Shining from a Different Firmament
24 " The fractured self is not something that needs to be rectified fixed and made whole; by freeing thought of the blinkers of representation, the space of fracture, of multiplicity (as opposed to unity) becomes a powerful place and one from which the most radical ideas can emerge. "
― Ria Banerjee
25 " We were made to be mirrors perfectly reflecting God's goodness, but with sin that mirror fractured and the reflection is distorted. "
26 " Heck, I don't know what it is. All I know is that my mind fractured like a mirror one day and here I am almost ten years later still cutting myself on the shards. "
― Addison Moore , Whiskey Kisses (3:AM Kisses, #4)
27 " We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trials , or fractured by a permanent, damming fault line. "
― Karen Marie Moning , Faefever (Fever, #3)
28 " Time seemed to stop; the world around them stilled. There was only her. His thumb caressed at her lips, the lips he wanted to kiss.Katianna rolled her face in his palm—a caressing nuzzle and he stilled, his breath froze in his chest.A response. A submissive one at that. His heart, stilled fractured by that single nuance, but his loins burst with a wave of warmth.A response—it had been a response. Oh fuck he had to kiss her. His whole body was screaming for her now. "
― Talon P.S. , Becoming His Slave (Dominion of Brothers, #1)
29 " The final entity was the beast. The steel juggernaut that raked claws made of screams along the bones of their soul.All of the pain that Jango had endured as a child had never left his mind. That pain had created a sort of primordial ooze in his fractured mind that sloshed and bled until the beast was birthed from the suffering. The beast lived in a cage forged of willpower deep in the recesses of the mad matrix of his splintered mind. It rattled the cage and roared for release, but he was loath to ever set the beast loose…again. "
― Cedric Nye , Rage and Ruin (Zombie Fighter Jango, #3)
30 " A personality disorder is not the foreign presence of demonic possession or a cancerous cluster of cells spreading among the internal organs. It is a pattern of cognition and reaction that impares the capacity to be productive, happy and generally at ease. It is a fractured sense of self giving way to the weight of stressful interpersonal dynamics. "
― Merri Lisa Johnson
31 " How were we so lucky? Two people lost in a world only to find solace and companionship in someone just as fractured as they are. I think destiny has played a hand in our union. "
― K. Webster , Becoming Countess Dumont (Becoming Her #2)
32 " We have a fractured understanding of how the body exists in physical space and also a deeper internal sense of the body and its purposes. We are, in a way, disconnected from equations of reproduction, or our sexuality has evolutionarily been tilted in a different direction. It begs the scientific question: to what purpose? It doesn’t feel accidental to me that throughout history queer people have been magical, holy, and artistic. "
― , Our Deep Gossip: Conversations with Gay Writers on Poetry and Desire
33 " As I lifted the ash dagger, something inside me fractured so completely that there would be no hope of ever repairing it. "
― Sarah J. Maas , A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
34 " She follows her nose and stands once more before the doors of a quintessential dilemma. Male or Female. Here is her paradox. A staccato voice seems to challenge her, berate her. Hombre or Mujer. Mann or Frau. Homme or Femme. Gentleman or Lady. Com on, decide. She knows them all. She is them all. Not fluid or all-encompassing, gathering the harvest of the reaping fields, but fractured and split and bleeding. Her inner core weeping out of itself. There is nothing for hermaphrodites. It's too confusing. The words rattle around in her earbones, androgynous and humming. How can she choose? She cannot choose. To choose is to sunder. "
35 " One hit, one moan of fractured air, one solid impact and the man went down. "
36 " The world is as I always intuited it to be: weird, fractured and full of monsters. "
― Charlie Human , Apocalypse Now Now (Apocalypse Now Now, #1)
37 " The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. "
38 " I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family. "
39 " I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: my state Senate seat or for the governor. I'm still trying to decide, but I do think people are ready for a change from the partisan, very fractured leadership we have in Texas. "
40 " If you're lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you're someone who's got a family that's all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that's a very sad place to be. "