75 Sad And Deep Broken Family Quotes

150+ 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.

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150+ Sad Deep Quotes About Broken Family

These sad deep quotes for broken families are a way to heal 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.

“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.”― JoyBell C.

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

“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.”― A. Wiggins
“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

“Oftentimes we try to change the world around us, our family members and our friends, while remaining the same. That is impossible. Sometimes we feel like we are making progress, expanding our horizons and our awareness, but with no real change in our lives.” ― Itayi Garande
“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.” ― Whitney Griswold

“Parentageis a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.” ― George Bernard Shaw
“Sometimes problems don’t require a solution to solve them; instead they require maturity to outgrow them.” ― Steve Maraboli
“Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts.” ―Les Dawson

“Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it’s the place where we find the deepest heartache.” ― Iyanla Vanzant
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” ― George Burns
“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

“The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.” ― Dalai Lama
“Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.” — Anthony Liccione
“Being part of a family means smiling for photos.”— Harry Morgan
“No family is sane, is it?” ― Rebecca Hall

“Adults who were hurt as children inevitably exhibit a peculiar strength, a profound inner wisdom, and a remarkable creativity and insight. Deep within them – just beneath the wound – lies a profound spiritual vitality, a quiet knowing, a way of perceiving what is beautiful, right, and true. Since their early experiences were so dark and painful, they have spent much of their lives in search of the gentleness, love, and peace they have only imagined in the privacy of their own hearts.” ― Wayne Muller

“Living your dreams, changing your behaviors, and overcoming negative habits is challenging. However, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” ― Itayi Garande
“What is it about me that gets them all crying? It’s not the end of the world.” ― Diane Samuels
“Sign of an abusive system: getting angry at other’s real needs.” ― Jeff VanVonderen

“Before I was born, my father disowned me. You know those ones who get the females pregnant, and then say the baby is not theirs? He rejected me, told my mother that I am not his child, so I never had a relationship with my father.”― Drexel Deal
“It always amazes me how swiftly problems can be solved once you start cutting things off people.”— Joe Abercrombie

“It’s not flesh and blood, but heart, which makes us fathers and sons.” — Friedrich von Schiller
“Any problem, big or small, within a family always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn’t listening.” — Emma Thompson
“No matter what you’ve suffered, the abuse was not your fault. Not as an innocent child, teenager, nor adult.” — Dana Arcuri

“A child should never feel as if they need to earn a mother’s love.”— Sherrie Campbell
“A toxic mother talks but never listens, and she gives advice but never takes any.” — Sherrie Campbell
“Narcissist parents don’t care about their children’s feelings at all. Only their feelings matter.” — Kim Saeed
“A busy mother makes slothful daughters.” ―Portuguese Proverb
“People talk about dysfunctional families; I’ve never seen any other kind.” ―Sue Grafton

“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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“The human race is one big dysfunctional family.” ― Robert Barron
“A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.” ― Mary Karr

“Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.” ― Shannon L. Alder
“We all come from dysfunctional families and these days I guess that’s pretty normal.” ―Carnie Wilson
“Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren’t solved, they’re dealt with.” ― Roger Ebert
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” ― Leo Tolstoy
“Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.” ― Mignon McLaughlin
“The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.” ―Bertrand Russell

“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
“Unfortunately, some family members are so psychotic that no matter how hard you try to forge a healthy relationship, nothing will help” ― Unknown

“Parents kill more dreams than anybody.” ― Spike Lee
“Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.” ― George Eliot
“Sometimes it makes me sad that I didn’t get to have one family for my entire life.” ― Isabel Gillies
“As your kids grow they may forget what you said, but won’t forget how you made them feel.” ― Kevin Heath
“The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.” ― Charles Kuralt
“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.” ― Margaret Mead
“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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“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
“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
“Broken relationshipsare a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.” ― Jerry B. Jenkins
“Families don’t have to match. You don’t have to look like someone else to love them.” ― Leigh Anne Tuohy
“I don’t think a 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
“In the narcissistic parent’s eyes, they do no wrong, nor do they feel they should be held accountable for the bad and wrong things they have done.” — Katherine Childress
“Narcissistic parents will try to hurt you any way they can emotionally. Be aware that if they can’t get to you directly, they will try to hurt you through your children.” — Tina Fuller
“Who said that parents’ beliefs should be adopted by their children?”— Lukasz Laniecki
“Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children’s most primitive fears.”— Henry Cloud
“People tend to raise the child inside them rather than the child in front of them.” — Joe Newman
“To all you parents out there, don’t make your little girls, or little boys, so thirsty for love that they will want to drink water that will poison them.” — Lisa Bedrick.
“It is the selfish parents who are to blame. Pay attention; be involved in your children’s lives. They are your legacy, your only hope.” — Aaron B. Powell
“Getting angry when something about their behavior is challenged in the nicest way is a typical reaction of a narcissistic parent.”— Diana Macey
“Family is where you’re meant to be most free, don’t let blood chain you down.”— Michelle Meleen
“You can miss a person every day and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”— Tara Westover
“Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.” — Richard Bach
“Fake relatives will give you a fake smile to hide the evil intentions they have against you.” — Samuel Zulu
“You can love them, forgive them, and want good things for them…but still, move on without them.” — Mandy Hale
“Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.” — George Washington Carver
“Hatred imprisons the haters; love opens doors.” —Debasish Mridha
“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 Vanzant
“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
“This is my family. I found it, all on my own. It’s little, and broken, but still good. Yeah, still good.” ― Lilo & Stitch
“Pick a dysfunction, and it’s a family problem.” ― Robert Downey, Jr.

“I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family.” ― Tupac Shakur
“I think a lot of time, I’m just writing my worst 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
“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
“I loved him, but I didn’t know how to fix all of the things that were broken in our family.” ― Brodi Ashton
“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
“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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“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
“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
“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.” ― A. Huss
“One of the problems of our youth is that the family 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

“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
“A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.” ― Kristin Hannah
“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
“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
“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
“I wonder why I feel treated like an enemy in a place where I am supposed to be welcome.” ― Unknown
“I can’t say it’s not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise”― LaToya Jackson
“Controllers, abusers, and manipulative people don’t question themselves. They don’t ask themselves if the problem is them… they always say the problem is someone else.”— Darlene Ouimet
“You create more space in your life when you turn your excess baggage to garbage.” — Chinonye J. Chudolue
“The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.”— Chris Jami
“Letting go of toxic people in your life is a big step in loving yourself.”— Hussein Nishah
“Someone who smiles too much with you can sometimes frown too much with you at your back.” — Michael Bassey Johnson
“Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.”— Ismail Haniyeh
“A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.” — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“A person raised in a healthy family is equipped to live a confident and independent life; someone from an unhealthy family is filled with fear and self-doubt.”— Christina Enevoldsen
“Being brushed aside is the easiest way to discard a child.” — Sherrie Campbell
“Toxic mothers are image-oriented rather than love-oriented.” — Sherrie Campbell
“All that fake and jealous family members can give you are lies, drama, and jealousy.”— Samuel Zulu
“Blood doesn’t make you family. Some of the most demonic and demeaning people in your life share your DNA.”— Temi Ade
“If the family you choose before your birth no longer supports your path towards fulfilling your true destiny, it is never too late to find a new tribe.”— Anthon St. Maarten
“When you notice someone does something toxic the first time, don’t wait for the second time before you address it.” — Shahida Arabi
“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
“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
“You can’t teach a son to be loyal if the father is not loyal. The same applies with the mother and her daughter.” ― Unknown
“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
“No connection can ever be broken if love holds tight at both ends.” ― Shannon L. Alder
“Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me. Stranded on welfare, another broken family.” ― Tupac Shakur
“You cannot expect to live a positive life if you hang with negative people” ― Joel Osteen
“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

“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.” ― D. Stroube
“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
“Fake people are like costume jewelry: They look great for a while, then all of a sudden, their true selves’ Shine’ thru.”— Nitya Prakash
“Toxic people attach themselves like cinder blocks tied to your ankles, and then invite you for a swim in their poisoned waters.” — John Mark Green
“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” — George Bernard Shaw
“Family or not I will cut you off. That saying “but that’s family” means nothing if a family is toxic and means you are no good.” — Morgan Sharee
“Humans are more venomous than snakes.” — Atef Ashab Uddin Sahil
“I’ve got more respect for someone who comes out and says they don’t like me than for the ones who act like they do, but talk bad about me when I’m not around.”— Mitchell Perry
“If I doubt your intentions, I will never trust your actions.” — Carlos Wallace
“Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.” — Joseph Kesselring
“If your actions are dictated by who might be watching, they’ll never be genuine—and neither will you.”— Vincent H. O’Neil
“If you’re more concerned about our reputation than about me, then I’ll just withdraw and not have a family anymore.”– Gregory R. Reid
“In general, the more dysfunctional the family, the more inappropriate their response to disclosure. Never expect a sane response from an insane system.”— Renee Fredrickson
“In my family, you can rot to hell on the inside as long as you’re flawless on the outside, which is really sick, but also hard to unlearn.” — Laura Wiess
“Instead of promoting healthy development, they unconsciously undermine it, often with the belief that they are acting in their child’s best interest.”— Susan Forward
“It’s hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.”— Nicole Richie
“Just because someone is your family doesn’t mean you have to keep them around if they are toxic or abusive. Don’t let people guilt you.” — Winnie Nantongo
“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
“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
“Deep inside us, we know what every family therapist knows: the problems between the parents become the problems within the children.” ―Roger Gould
“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.” ― Scott Fitzgerald
“It doesn’t matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.” ―Scott Weiland
“Love them from a distance. Pray for them, wish them well, but don’t allow them to abuse you.”— Kimber Waul
“Fire false friends as early as possible. Do it before they dig out the dream seeds you’ve planted. The earlier, the better; the quicker, the safer.”— Israelmore Ayivor
“Most people want to see you do better, but not doing better than them.” — London Mond
“I hate fake people. You know what I’m talking about. Mannequins.”— Jarod Kintz
“People may not always tell you how they feel about you, but they will always show you. Pay attention.” — Keri Hilson
“Better an honest enemy than a false friend.” —German Proverb
“People wear masks of lies so that they look attractive, so be careful.”— Muhammad Saqib
“Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.” — George R.R. Martin
“Some humans spend their whole lives making something that isn’t real look like something that is.”— Anna Banks
“Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.”— Oliver Hudson
“Sometimes it’s not the person who changes, it’s the mask that falls off.” — Unknown
“Sometimes the person you’d take a bullet for is the person behind the trigger.”— Taylor Swift
“Feigned interest is worse than brutal honesty.”— Stewart Stafford
“Stab the body, and it heals, but injure the heart, and the wound lasts a lifetime.” — Mineko Iwasaki
“Stop entertaining two-faced people. You know, the ones who have split personalities and untrustworthy habits.” — Amaka Imani Nkosazana
“Trolls and haters are only distractions from your greater purpose. When you achieve your goals and success, not only will the trolls and haters be forgotten, but they will definitely be looked upon as the biggest fools.”— Kailin Gow

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. Why is a broken family a problem?

If a family breaks, the people who are affected the most are children. Breaking a family hampers their physical, emotional, and social development. Children need a loving family environment while growing up, and in the absence of love and care, they develop insecurity, fear, rage, and a lack of self-confidence. These negative emotions may change their behavior, disrupt their education, and make them grow into dysfunctional adults.

2. How does a broken family affect relationships?

A broken family may often push individuals into grief, disappointment, frustration, and confusion. The partner who stays behind to take care of the family may face many challenges and can be filled with bitterness for the other person. These experiences may overwhelm them and affect them psychologically.

3. Who suffers the most in a broken family?

The degree of suffering in a broken family varies for every family member. Children experience enormous emotional suffering, which can alter their personalities and behavior and even lead to mental ailments in adulthood. At the same time, the parents may struggle with feelings of distrust and abandonment even years after the separation. This can affect their children with children, their careers, and their personal life.

4. When do family relationships break down?

A family might break apart for a variety of reasons. There may be some tension between the parents due to financial difficulties, problems at work that cause a work-life imbalance, or a recent tragedy that causes emotional strain. Furthermore, codependency, infidelity, and substance abuse may also put pressure on either person, ultimately leading to separation.

Breaking away may seem an easy way out, but it causes tremendous anguish and misery and never assures the peace, security, and happiness one has with their family. Family members may differ in their thoughts and opinions and may have their own problems. The family members might harbor grudges and endure a life filled with despair, resulting in ongoing strife among them. Working together to find solutions to such problems helps them tide over difficult situations and stick together. These broken family quotes are sure to make you understand the importance of a family and inspire you to look for ways to co-exist among imperfections.

Infographic: Dealing With A Broken Family

When you sense that your familial relationships are on the verge of breaking to the extent that you may not be able to fix them again, it could be bewildering, anxious, and disheartening. However, whether your family members have chosen to walk away voluntarily or due to unavoidable circumstances, you must find ways to cope with the situation. Here is an infographic to help you deal with a broken family.

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A broken family can cause tremendous pain and suffering. Perhaps some inspiring quotes might help ease the pain. This video with quotes on broken families might give you the strength to cope with difficult times.