Top 1200 Things Fall Apart Okonkwo Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together

But things don't just fall apart. People break them.

Sometimes good things the best things coincide fall apart.

Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.

It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.

Otherwise I'll fall apart. I'm going to fall apart. I am falling apart.

Things have a tendency in the film business to fall apart more often than they come together.

All the time we spent in bed, counting miles before we said, fall in love and fall apart, things will end before they start.

I've always been good at putting things behind me - I fall apart, do my crying bit and then put it away and move it.

We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.

When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky.

Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate that the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw. Okonkwo’s fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself.

Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of peopleMaybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time. Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.

Although there are people who regard 'Do You Want More?!!!??!' as our first major release, I think 'Things Fall Apart' was the real arrival of The Roots, so to speak.

I've always been good at putting things behind me–I fall apart, do my crying bit, and then put it away and move on.

Entropy increases. Things fall apart.

Get through today – you can fall apart tomorrow. Get through tomorrow, you can fall apart the day after . . .

Making a film is hard because you're not dealing with the intangible. When you're writing, it's perfect because it's only in your head and then you have to take it into the physical world and that's where things drop off and things fall apart and you have to fix them.

People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.

Things fall apart, it's scientific.

It's only a matter of time before it all starts to fall apart, before things start to fall off. Short legs, long body. The kind of person who in the Middle Ages would come up over the hill on his horse, and they'd say, 'Get Wogan,' and I'd be there with my shield, the first to die.

You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things fall apart, letting the world come as it is - working with it rather than struggling against it. You're the only one who knows.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

Things fall apart, so they can fall together at a higher level of order.

We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy. (10)

Trust in God's timing. It's better to have to wait a while and have things fall into place then to rush into something and have things fall apart.

We were built to fall apart and fall back together.

Things seem to fall apart inevitably.

Things do fall apart. It is in their nature to do so. When we try to protect ourselves from the inevitability of change, we are not listening to the soul. We are listening to our fear of life and death, our lack of faith, our smaller ego's will to prevail. To listen to the soul is to stop fighting with life-to stop fighting when things fall apart, when they don't go our way, when we get sick, when we are betrayed or mistreated or misunderstood. To listen to the soul is to slow down, to feel deeply, to see ourselves clearly, to surrender to discomfort and uncertainty, and to wait.

If the family sticks together, things are easy. If not, it will fall apart. There are several examples in history. Take Troy or take Caesar.

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.

I thought I could rely on the plot in the novel and fill in the colour between the lines, but I made a mistake with that assumption. It was really, really hard because you pull a few things apart and then you realise how everything relies on everything else and it can all fall apart.

One piece of advice I have is: Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity shouldn’t rely on it, because it’s not guaranteed and it’s not permanent and it’s not sufficient. So work hard, fall in love with the writing — the characters, the story, the words, the themes — and make sure that you are who you are regardless of your life circumstances. That way, when the good things come, they don’t warp you, and when the bad things hit you, you don’t fall apart.

Even though I avoid buying clothes that are 'in fashion', choosing things I fall in love with and wearing them till they fall apart - and generally going for vintage when it comes to evening wear - I still, like every woman I know, suffer from occasional pangs of 'clothes guilt'.

That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart.

When you're in a band it's a 24/7 thing. If you don't get on or like each other things will fall apart very quickly, which is what it seems happened with Fifth Harmony.

You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart - you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don't hurt so much.

Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.

Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among the first to live and work after things fall apart.

We wouldn't ever sit down and pretend that our friendship didn't fall apart back in the late '80s. It wasn't like there was a massive bust-up. We just drifted apart.

In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.

I think most people, no matter what their situation, manage to find joy and comfort in their daily lives. I also think things fall apart.

Jesus praised faith and trust – even more than love. It takes a foundational trust to fall, or to fail, and not to fall apart.

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.

I love it when celebrities fall apart, you want them to fall apart like Charlie Sheen.

Movies come together and they fall apart. We try to focus on things we love to see. It is, they come together, they fall apart and they come together again and you're with them for a long long time.

I'm all of those things that I was brought up to really value: honesty, stick with it, don't quit, don't cut and run, stay in there. When you think things might fall apart, believe that you have enough for victory. That's the stuff I have in me.

We are seeing it. We are seeing the fabric of this country fall apart, and it’s falling apart because of single moms.

Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.

When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the presence of God.

There are a lot of things going into making a movie. So many things can go wrong. So many people that need to show up and bring their "A" game. If one thing is out of place, the whole movie can fall apart.

Just because your world is falling apart doesn't mean you have to fall apart. When everything seems crazy, you be calm. Don't let the outer chaos you are facing get inside of you.

Things fall apart, even when you think they're stronger than anything you could ever imagine.

When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

Sometimes there is no way to hold your life together. Sometimes things just have to fall apart.

Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.

If you disaggregate, things fall apart.

Maybe it is desperation. Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love.

Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness.

You know, things fall apart. You grieve. And then you sit around and wait for things to somehow get perfect again. But they don’t. They never can. There is no perfect. There’s just different. But different can be wonderful.