75 Sad And Deep Quotes About Broken Family

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Your family is your world. That is where you feel the belongingness and be your true self without filters. We bring you broken family quotes that highlight the value of family in our life. A broken family is a curse to the kith and kin and also to the society. The hurt, sorrow, pain, and suffering keep brewing if problems between the family members are not resolved. If left unaddressed, it further leads to conflict, disunity, alienation, and estrangement. Check out this collection of melancholic quotes about a broken family that will leave a lasting impression. Read on and try to fix the problems because family is the priority in life.

75 Sad Deep Quotes About Broken Family

These sad deep quotes for broken families are a way toheal broken hearts. If you come from a broken family and find yourself grief-stricken and hurting, may these words provide solace. Read these quotes and have the patience to overcome the hard times.

1. “There is no such thing as a “broken family.” Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If you make those ties, those people are your family. And if you hate those ties, those people will still be your family because whatever you hate will always be with you.”―C. JoyBell C.
   

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2. “No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That’s already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.”―Dick Gregory

3. “Sometimes the best families are the ones God builds using unexpected pieces of our hearts.”―Melanie Shankle

4. “Wisdom starts when you know yourself. You will realise that everything aligns itself perfectly when you live your truth, break limiting habits and challenge yourself daily.”―Itayi Garande

5. “Too many children have suffered. Too many families have been broken. Too many girls have grown up alone. Or not at all. I won’t let them ruin anyone else.”―K.A. Wiggins

6. “If we’re sitting at dinner and there’s no conversation going on because everybody’s got their head someplace else in their iPhone, that’s a family problem that needs to be solved.” ―Ross W. Greene

7. “My father left me his words. From them I remember both his outlook on life and his voice, positive, and clear. He was someone who didn’t worry about small problems. His advice here—leave it; let it go— is inspiring.” ―Richard P. Feynman

8. “The family has become too scared of its children; the children too insecure in their remoteness from their parents; and the church too much of a social welfare organization for the good of the family, the church, or society.” ―A. Whitney Griswold

9. “Parentageis a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.” ―George Bernard Shaw

10. “Sometimes problems don’t require a solution to solve them; instead they require maturity to outgrow them.” ―Steve Maraboli

11. “Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts.” ―Les Dawson

12. “Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it’s the place where we find the deepest heartache.” ―Iyanla Vanzant

13. “幸福是拥有一个大的,爱,关怀,秘密地e-knit family in another city.” ―George Burns

14. “It’s frightening seeing in ourselves the same ingredients as dysfunctional members of our families. Fortunately, as it is with baking, the proportions, mix, and temperature of the exact same ingredients can yield anything from burnt cookies to elegant soufflés.” ―Alan Robert Neal

15. “The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.” ―Dalai Lama

16. “A busy mother makes slothful daughters.” ―Portuguese Proverb

17. “People talk aboutdysfunctional families; I’ve never seen any other kind.” ―Sue Grafton

18. “Making amends is not only saying the words but also being willing to listen to how your behavior caused another’s pain, and then the really hard part…changing behavior.” ―David W. Earle
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19. “The human race is one big dysfunctional family.” ―Robert Barron

20. “A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.” ―Mary Karr

21. “Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.” ―Shannon L. Alder

22. “We all come from dysfunctional families and these days I guess that’s pretty normal.” ―Carnie Wilson

23. “Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren’t solved, they’re dealt with.” ―Roger Ebert

24. “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” ―Leo Tolstoy

25. “After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul’s indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.” ―William R. Alger

26. “The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.” ―Bertrand Russell

27. “How many solutions are found to family problems if we take time to reflect? If we think of a husband or wife and we dream about their good qualities that they have? Don’t ever lose the illusion of when you were boyfriend and girlfriend!” ―Pope Francis

28. “It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.” ―John Steinbeck

29. “Parents kill more dreams than anybody.” ―Spike Lee

30. “Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.” ―George Eliot

31. “Sometimes it makes me sad that I didn’t get to have one family for my entire life.” ―Isabel Grillies

32. “As your kids grow they may forget what you said, but won’t forget how you made them feel.” ―Kevin Heath

33. “The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.” ―Charles Kuralt

34. “One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.” ―Margaret Mead

35. “In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” ―Eva Burrows
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36. “My family doesn’t do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise.” ―Hope Solo

37. “When I was a kid, there was unhappiness in my family – was dealt with partly by escaping to television. And from a very early age, for whatever reason, I became scornful and resistant to and angry about that. And some other time in my life, I realized that there’s a lot I loved in television.” ―Robert Pinsky

38. “Broken relationshipsare a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.” ―Jerry B. Jenkins

39. “Families don’t have to match. You don’t have to look like someone else to love them.” ―Leigh Anne Tuohy

40. “I don’t think female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It’s perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.” ―Toni Morrison

41. “When you inherit a broken family, you can’t throw it away and get a new one. What you can do is find people and situations that provide for you what your family cannot.” ―Iyanla Yanzat

42. “When you’re in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that’s the way they’re supposed to act. And girls think that’s an accepted way men will treat them.” ―Jim Costa

43. “This is my family. I found it, all on my own. It’s little, and broken, but still good. Yeah, still good.” ―Lilo & Stitch

44. “I have always been very family-oriented. I came from a dysfunctional, broken family growing up, and it’s probably instilled in me the need and the want to have a strong family and a great foundation. So I think that is something that I naturally gravitate toward.” ―Octavia Spencer

45. “I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family.” ―Tupac Shakur

46. “我认为很多时间,我只是写我最糟糕的fears, of the idea of losing my mom or my best friend or doing something so terrible to somebody that’s kind of deemed unforgivable, or having a really broken family.” ―Phoebe Waller-Bridge

47. “I was always the new kid in school, I’m the kid from a broken family, I’m the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I’m the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.” ―Dave Mustaine

48. “I loved him, but I didn’t know how to fix all of the things that were broken in our family.” ―Brodi Ashton

49. “There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future – that community asks for and gets chaos.” ―Daniel Patrick Moynihan

50. “Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness – broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.” ―Gary Bauer
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51. “If same-sex relationships are really sinful, then why do they so often produce good fruit-loving families, open homes, self-sacrifice, commitment, faithfulness, joy? And if conservative Christians are really right in their response to same-sex relationships, then why does that response often produce bad fruit-secrets, shame, depression, loneliness, broken families, and fear?” ―Rachel Held Evans

52. “No family is a perfect family. Every family experiences moments of outrage and anger. We have to understand each other, accept each other, and move on together.” ―Unknown

53. “The little killer who’s been living alone out here on the prairie is gone now, and all that’s left is the broken shell of a girl who has no place to call home and no people to call family.” ―J.A. Huss

54. “青春的问题之一是,全家ly unit is broken up. When we’d sit down to dinner together as a family, we’d learn about each other. We had something people don’t get today.” ―Paul Prudhomme

55. “Why? What had she ever done? What had any of them ever done? To give a child only to take him away. To make and then unmake, as if a family weren’t built of lives but of things that could be broken, returned, thrown out.” ―John Burnham Schwartz

56. “A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.” ―克里斯汀汉娜

57. “Getting a divorceis always horrible because you feel you’ve failed. Everyone hates to give up on a marriage. You think your family’s broken up.” ―Jerry Hall

58. “If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that’s broken apart, I think that’s probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.” ―Bridget Moynahan

59. “What makes a family is neither the absence of tragedy nor the ability to hide from misfortune, but the courage to overcome it and, from that broken past, write a new beginning.” ―Steve Pemberton

60. “I willingly devoted myself to my children and to my husband. I come from a broken home, and I decided a long time ago that I would put my family ahead of everything.” ―Andie MacDowell

61. “My father had to go to work, I used to think he was a jerk. I didn’t know his heart was broken, and not another word was spoken.” ―Madonna Ciccone

62. “Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it is with the family.” ―Thomas Jefferson

63. “You can’t teach a son to be loyal if the father is not loyal. The same applies with the mother and her daughter.” ―Mercy Pheona

64. “Family tragedies had a way of smashing everything apart and then gluing it all back together. The problem was no one ever knew how long the glue would hold.” ―Sarah Ockler

65. “No connection can ever be broken if love holds tight at both ends.” ―Shannon L. Alder

66. “Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me. Stranded on welfare, another broken family.” ―Tupac Shakur

67. “Sometimes it is like juggling with broken glass because both things are very sensitive and have to be handled with care. I can’t let the career be neglected and I can’t let my family and children be neglected either.” ―Kelly Price

68. “A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don’t live in the same place for very long.” ―Arthur Miller

69. “Even knowing that my presence brought a shadow over the lives of my loved ones, I can’t regret the experiences I’ve had with them. They gave me life, becoming an integral part of my soul. They healed me when I was broken and somehow they recovered those parts of me, I thought lost forever.” ―J.D. Stroube

70. “I learned a long time ago that most of my family and friends had plastic hearts. Plastic hearts are made so they cannot be broken. Cracked maybe, but never broken.” ―Lisa De Jong

71. “Sometimes it’s the ones closest to us who can destroy us the most. Sometimes it’s friends … family. It’s not always a romantic relationship that can leave us with a broken heart.” ―Shanora Williams

72. “When I was sixteen, there was no one to count on but myself. Everyone in my family was taking care of themselves, surviving, but everyone forgot I was sixteen years old. I had never felt so lost and so alone in my life.” ―Grace Lozada

73. “Deep inside us, we know what every family therapist knows: the problems between the parents become the problems within the children.” ―Roger Gould

74. “Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.” ―F. Scott Fitzgerald

75. “It doesn’t matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.” ―Scott Weiland
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