Broken Promises Quotes

“Promises are only as strong as the person who gives them ...”
― Stephen Richards

“He spoke again as if he hadn’t just shattered his promise and her security. Her house of glass now lay in a pile of shards.”
― Aleatha Romig, Consequences

“If love is not tied to a desire for reciprocity or mutual recognition, we should make no emotional investment, leaving behind only memories of lost hope or broken promises. ("Poste Restante")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves. (pg. 161)”
― Richard Paul Evans, Promise Me

“And they can’t understand, what hurts more— Missing the other person, or pretending not to.”
― Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings

“Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“Don't make any promises that you can't keep”
― Ann Marie Aguilar

“He started to estrange her...
And they became strangers
Who knew each other's heart,
So broken as they drifted apart.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine

“The world is always changing. Learn how to allow for it. Somone makes a promise, and then they break it. A play gets good notices, and then it folds. A marriage looks strong, and then they divorce. For a while there's no war, and then there's another war. If you get too upset about it all, you become a stupid, unhappy person—and where's the good in that?”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

“Loneliness isn't gray.
It is the color of the sky when it bleeds crimson rays in the horizon while there you are standing on the edge somewhere in this boulevard of broken promises, waiting, and waiting for a love that already left.”
― Verliza Gajeles

“He would doubtless have promised anything for the mere pleasure of breaking all bounds; perhaps he would even have liked her to ask him to swear on oath so he could add the attractions of perjury to his horrible pleasures.”
― Marquis de Sade, Incest

“At the point that our promises have become tactics to get what we want verses commitments that we intend to keep, the only thing that we are promising is the delivery of a broken promise.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you truly loved me, why did you create enemies for me?”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“I wrote your name in a book I cannot call poetry.”
― Verliza Gajeles, Diary of an old soul

“It's not painful anymore.
My heart doesn't bled just like before.
I am now free from this cold chain,
but a hint of sadness in me still remains.”
― Verliza Gajeles

“Love is knowing that your feet carry you to a painful place, and still go anyway.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Some people will rip out your heart with a steak knife then say, “Oops, sorry, do you need a plaster?”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“... I'd rather stand up here with my word broke this way than with it kept so good it hurt me.”
― Zona Gale, Christmas

“So much of what my generation had been promised disintegrated at our touch. Consider the friend, a painter of seascapes, who dreamed of affording waterfront property. On the day the levees broke, the Gulf flooded her studio and painted her walls with costly oils. Consider the friend who worked for six years at a company he hated on the promise of a sabbatical, only to be let go. The friend who complained about family reunions and lost every relative over the age of fifty to a virus. The friend who saved up to invest in a fund and saw her money dissolve like sugar on the tongues of bankers who barely got a scolding from the SEC. The life we'd been promised was a scam, the world a scam, the whole goddamn play a scam and there seemed nothing to do but burn it down as rioters did in Paris, New York, Nairobi—and then creep back through the embers because what other choice did we have?”
― C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

“Everything you see is unreal'' & ''Everything you don,t see is real”
― Casper_thounaojam

“When Trump said, at the first debate, “If it weren’t for me, you wouldn’t even be talking about illegal immigration,” Carly Fiorina was not on the debate stage. She had waited until she bullied her way into the second debate to say, "Immigration did not come up in 2016 because Mr. Trump brought it up; we talked about it in 2012, we talked about it in 2008. We talked about it in 2004. We have been talking about it for 25 years. This is why people are tired of politicians.”

She then proceeded to talk about it in the exact same way politicians have been talking about it for 25 years!”
― Ann Coulter, In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!

“Let dead relationships be dead.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“People are way too quick to make commitments and too quick to abandon them.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

“Ela levou o cigarro à boca, me seduzindo com a dança das chamas. Meus olhos não conseguiram se desviar, capturados por sua aura sombria. A maneira como ela tragou o cigarro foi como uma provocação, um convite audacioso para um jogo perigoso. Eu senti a tensão no ar, como uma corrente elétrica entre nós. Cada gesto dela era um feitiço, e eu estava preso em sua teia, ansioso por ser consumido por sua escuridão.”
― Callie Queiroz, Broken Promises

“A doce, inocente, delicada e altruísta princesa não existe. A menina comportada, que segue as etiquetas e as tradições, ela definitivamente não existe. O que existe é a garota quebrada, sufocada, prisioneira, sombria, com a alma escurecida.”
― Callie Queiroz, Broken Promises

“A Princesa carregava a minha alma em sua pele e meu coração em suas mãos. O que quisesse fazer com eles era uma decisão unicamente dela. Eu me perguntava se ela sabia... Que um mundo sem ela, era como apenas existir. E que para viver assim, eu preferiria desistir da vida.”
― Callie Queiroz, Broken Promises

“The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws.”
― Catherine Leroux, The Future

“Well, because even a broken promise brought hope once.”
― Jovan Stipic, Tournament of the Lost

“In the global arena, the rise of new powers is not merely a challenge to Western hegemony but an opportunity to reshape global governance with a more inclusive approach.”
― Jibril Mohamed Ahmed

“I need to realize that sometimes a shooting star isn't magic at all; sometimes it's just a bunch of space dust burning through the atmosphere. Sometimes you don't get a wish.”
― B.K. Borison, In the Weeds