Top 189 Fragment Quotes & Sayings

The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.

The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.

There is no mystery in a looking glass until someone looks into it. Then, though it remains the same glass, it presents a different face to each man who holds it in front of him. The same is true of a work of art. It has no proper existence as art until someone is reflected in it--and no two will ever be reflected in the same way. However much we all see in common in such a work, at the center we behold a fragment of our own soul, and the greater the art the greater the fragment.

North America can easily fragment quickly as did the Eastern Bloc in 1989.

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging.

Sometimes the fragment of a conversation, the color of the sky, the image in a dream, has everything to do with where the song begins.

Everlastingly chained to a single little fragment of the Whole, man himself develops into nothing but a fragment; everlastingly in his ear the monotonous sound of the wheel that he turns, he never develops the harmony of his being, and instead of putting the stamp of humanity upon his own nature, he becomes nothing more than the imprint of his occupation or of his specialized knowledge.

A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience.

Jeffersonian democracy, faulty as it is, and only the fragment of it that we have, is a thing of such preciousness, a thing of such value.

As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance ... that I was seized with a violent tremour.

While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus.

You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

You have not known even a fragment of My reality. The full nature of this reality can never be understood by anyone.

Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.

Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.

One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming to fill a gap in the drawing.

All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.

A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece

Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.

The democratization of news is fine and splendid, but it's not reporting. It's based on a fragment of information picked up from television or the web, and people are sounding off about something that's not necessarily true.

In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck our planet is a microscopic dot. On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical properties, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded.

Waves of thought are stirring. In a twilight corner of her consciousness, one tiny fragment and another tiny fragment call out wordlessly to eachother, their spreading ripples intermingling.

No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.

What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment.

The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

the moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy

Make-up is such a huge fragment of my career and image.

Is there a chance? A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel? A reason to fight? Is there a chance you may change your mind? Or are we ashes and wine?

The sylph is a fragment of the earth's soul in faery form.

To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas.

If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.

The world is just going to continue to fragment, and that's a great thing.

Animals form an inalienable fragment of nature, and if we hasten the disappearance of even one species, we diminish our world and our place in it.

The Western planners are definitely trying to fragment the entire Middle East. They already have done, on several historical occasions.

If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.

This is only a small part of the totality. From this island earth we see only a fragment of creation and its knowledge.

I had bad back injuries; two bulging discs and a broken fragment off a disc, all in my sciatic nerve.

The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase.

My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem.

The more we can personalise, the more the market can fragment, because of all the availability that streaming presents. Things become old sooner. That's terrifying.

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.

I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.

You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!

Whatever you can conceive or imagine is but a fragment of yourself.

The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.

Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.

There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.

A journey is a fragment of Hell.

Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.

I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world.

The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.