{"quotes":[{"text":"She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd taken for granted.","author":"Freya North","tags":["broken-dreams","future","heartache","past","present"],"id":43343,"author_id":"Freya+North"},{"text":"Down below people were clipping by going nowhere fast. You could feel the long despairing history of the place. You could actually hear it, a low hum like the buzz of a sick bee that resonated with the fragments of a million broken dreams.","author":"Sol Luckman","tags":["broken-dreams","city","depressing","despair","desperation","disillusionment","dreams","others","people","urbanity"],"id":56874,"author_id":"Sol+Luckman"},{"text":"My life had become a puzzle - its pieces scattered about like paper in the wind, with no one there to chase them but me.","author":"Meredith T. Taylor","tags":["broken","broken-dreams","broken-heart","choices","confused-emotions","heartbreak","life","love","path","puzzles-of-life"],"id":95804,"author_id":"Meredith+T.+Taylor"},{"text":"What if you are just destined to get hurt, to be helplessly stuck in a point of time you no longer want to be? Maybe life is all about trying to get up while you fall a little bit deeper in the pits of hell, each time you try not to...","author":"Sanhita Baruah","tags":["alone","break-ups","broken-dreams","broken-heart","cry","dark","deep","depression","destiny","fiction","grief","hell","helpless","hurt","hurtful","inferno","let-go","life","loneliness","lonely","love","melancholy","move-on","pain","painful","people","pits","red","relationships","sad","sadness","solitude","stuck","tears","time","trap","trapped"],"id":123523,"author_id":"Sanhita+Baruah"},{"text":"And because you not always can keep your eyes shut there comes the real trouble--the heart pain--the world pain. I tell you, my friend, it is not good for you to find you cannot make your dream come true, for the reason that you not strong enough are, or not clever enough. . . . Ja! . . . And all the time you are such a fine fellow too! Wie? Was? Gott I'm Himmel! How can that be? Ha! Ha! Ha!'’The shadow prowling amongst the graves of butterflies laughed boisterously.","author":"Joseph Conrad","tags":["bad-reputation","broken-dreams","broken-spirit","heart-pain","heartache","lost-souls"],"id":123767,"author_id":"Joseph+Conrad"},{"text":"Please don’t tell me, it was less painful than a broken backbone, a forgotten poem, a lost home.","author":"Khadija Rupa","tags":["broken","broken-backbone","broken-dreams","forgotten-poem","grief-and-loss","khadija-rupa","lost-home","please","sad-poetry","unexpressed-feelings"],"id":131310,"author_id":"Khadija+Rupa"},{"text":"I've heard you say so many a timeThat I know just the right words to say, just the right lines to rhyme...Today it's been 7 years since we last metI have learnt to say just the wrong words, just the lines you hate....","author":"Sanhita Baruah","tags":["alone","break-ups","broken","broken-dreams","dreams","goodbyes","grief","hate","heartbreak","just","last-meeting","leave","life","lines","lonely","love","meeting","move-on","people","people-leave","poem","relationships","rhymes","right","sad","separate","today","words","wrong","years","yesterday"],"id":146828,"author_id":"Sanhita+Baruah"},{"text":"Where are the memories that held us together? Where are the dreams that were yet to come? I'm afraid to be happy. I shouldn't be happy. If I'm happy without you does that mean I've told you goodbye?","author":"Donna Lynn Hope","tags":["broken-dreams","dreams","goodbye","holding-on","letting-go","memories"],"id":242943,"author_id":"Donna+Lynn+Hope"},{"text":"You write poems with your fingertipsAnd I keep listening to the songs written on my skinBy some distant dream, similar wordsBut the verses never meet...","author":"Sanhita Baruah","tags":["apart","art","body","broken","broken-dreams","distant","dreams","fingertips","first-meetings","life","love","lovers","meet","poems","poetry","poets","relationships","romantic","sad","separate-writers","singing","skin","songs","verses","words","write","written"],"id":250368,"author_id":"Sanhita+Baruah"},{"text":"I didn’t want a story—a beginning. Not anymore. I have long ago stopped walking on a road where my dreams walk around. I change my destination a hundred times if I ever see an old wish of mine standing there in its real form. I don’t know them. I don’t want to. They too must not know me. They too must not recognise me as their owner.","author":"Khadija Rupa","tags":["broken-dreams","depressed","destination","dream","i-dont-know","khadija-rupa","life","owner","sadness","unexpressed-feelings","wishes"],"id":278330,"author_id":"Khadija+Rupa"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}