A Quote by Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

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Broken Clowns Hearts Sorrow Whose

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Oscar Wilde
Irish - Poet
October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900

Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.

Orville Dewey

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

Oscar Wilde

Broken bottles, broken plates, broken switches, broken gates. Broken dishes, broken parts, streets are filled with broken hearts.

Bob Dylan

Don't dismiss the heart, even if it's filled with sorrow. God's treasures are buried in broken hearts.

Rumi

And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts; its happy tales are of broken heads.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If you share in a heart-felt sorrow, you can lighten the load of a friend. Sometimes facing the burden together can mend two broken hearts in the end.

Wes Fesler

This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people.

John Connolly

Everyone hates clowns," Otis said. "Even other clowns hate clowns.

Rick Riordan

A world's full of broken hearts. That's all this is. I wondered if there was anyone above the age of say, 18, in the world who hadn't had their hearts broken at some point.

David Bowick

Paris is the destination for brokenhearted American women. I think men go there and have their hearts broken, but women come there with their hearts broken.

Whit Stillman

Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.

Samantha Power

No clowns were funny. That was the whole purpose of a clown. People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The point of clowns was that, after watching them, anything else that happened seemed enjoyable

Terry Pratchett

Jesus knows the burdens we carry and the tears we shed, but He is the healer of broken hearts, broken dreams, and broken lives. Trust him. He never fails.

John Hagee

Bread of the world, in mercy broken, Wine of the soul, in mercy shed, By whom the words of life were spoken, And in whose death our sins are dead: Look on the heart by sorrow broken, Look on the tears by sinners shed; And be Thy feast to us the token That by Thy grace our souls are fed.

Reginald Heber

It's the notion that there is no perfection - that there is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still there is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances.