emotional wreckage Quotes

A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.

The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.

The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.

Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.

and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.

Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains.

This was not the old Chichikov. This was some wreckage of the old Chichikov. The inner state of his soul might be compared to a demolished building, which has been demolished so that from it a new one could be built; but the new one has not been started yet, because the infinitive plan has not yet come from the architect and the workers are left in perplexity.

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.