Skip to content
quotesby

About this quote

What does it mean?
A comparison of broken glass to glitter suggests finding beauty or fascination in destruction.
In plain terms
Shattered glass looks shiny like glitter.
What can you take from it?
Notice the aesthetic in broken things.

Where it applies

  • artistic observation
  • coping with damage
  • finding light

Putting it to work

  • look for shine in broken places

Questions to consider

  • What beauty do you see in broken things?
  • How do you handle destruction?

Another view

Romanticizing breakage can obscure the danger or loss involved.

More from Peter Doherty

  1. I have a very bad relationship with the future. We don't get on. We just ignore each other.

    Permalink to quote #10
  2. 'Each man kills the things he loves'. I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.

    Permalink to quote #12
  3. The more you read and the more you teach yourself, the less you rely on something like drugs to take you to a better place.

    Permalink to quote #9

Related quotes

  1. Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.

    Elizabeth GaskellElizabeth Gaskell quote #1
  2. As I came down the Highgate Hill, The Highgate Hill, the Highgate Hill, As I came down the Highgate Hill I met the sun's bravado, And saw below me, fold on fol…

    Henry Howarth BashfordHenry Howarth Bashford quote #1
  3. This is the funeral pyre and Troy is dead That sparkled so the day I saw it first, And darkened slowly after. I am she Who loves all beauty - yet I wither it.

    Sara TeasdaleSara Teasdale quote #1