Quotes About Promises That Are Broken Novels & Stories

The crowd's mood shifted fast, whispers rolling through the garden. "Kid's a dead ringer for Steven. Wouldn't shock me if he's the real deal." "Didn't Bella wreck her health saving him? Makes sense he'd drag in some bastard kid to lock down the inheritance." "Happens all the time with rich families. And here I thought theirs was true love. Poor Bella—she almost died for him, and this is how it ends." Rumors spread like wildfire, impossible to stamp out.

But pr omises are meant to be failed, especially ones made to oneself.

"No... No. I told you I’m staying. I don’t care what happened. I know you didn’t mean to hurt me... I know you were just overwhelmed, Jazper..." My voice cracked as more tears spilled. "It’s okay... I’m not going anywhere." I knelt in front of him and whispered, "You promised..." My voice was shaking. "Remember? You said you wouldn’t give me up. You said you’d never leave me, Jazper..." He slowly pulled his hands out of his hair. His face looked tired, broken, but his eyes burned with something sharp. "Promises are made to be broken, Audrey," he said flatly.

Vincent hoped his ears were playing tricks on him. Cyrus crushed that hope, word by word. "You can't stay here. Take the payment I gave you and leave." As the words landed, tears streamed down Vincent's face. He clutched his hiking pack and staggered back two steps, collapsing into the corner like a frightened animal desperate for safety. "You promised you'd keep me!" he shouted. "You said it yourself!" "I did say that. And I can take it back." Cyrus shook his head, weariness faint but clear. "We're adults. You should know that verbal promises are the easiest things to break. That was true before. It's even more true now."

“I’M SORRY. I didn’t mean to break my promise. I assure you I won’t do it again.” I frequently hear people say that when they breach their promise, they made to someone. And then that someone will just keep patiently waiting for you to do your promise because they instilled trust in you. But It is still up to the person who made the promise whether they will fulfill it or just keep making new promises each day even though they cannot fulfill them because of some reason.

, " Break the promise and your account will be frozen" " What?! You can't do that mum ", " Break the promise and see". Ashley grumbled and left knowing fully well her mother was a woman of her word.

-- END OF FLASHBACK -- Tears welled up in my eyes as I recalled the times when Kevin and I were still together. 'I'm sad, and a little bit upset right now, Kev.' I mumble in my mind and scoffs. 'Why didn't you come to me? Why didn't you come? Why didn't you show up?' I thought promises must be fulfilled. But then, promises are meant to be broken. I wanted to change that statement. Because, promises shouldn't be meant to be broken, since its an obligation of everyone that they should be fulfilled. "Right! If you can't keep your promise to me, then I will keep my promise to you. Wait for me, I will find you. I will go to you." I say in a whisper before I finally close my eyes to sleep.

"Alex, you promised me that you will be always with me, you will always stay because you are my best buddy, and you will never go away from me." A half-piece of a forgotten memory waved on the screen of my mind and so I laughed with agony, but along with the laughter, tears flowed from my eyes. "You have no idea how much you lie, you don't realize how much I love you, why are you so ignorant?" Scratching my hair, I was not in my senses at that time. "How much I take care of you, don't I? But how could you do this?" "No, you couldn't keep your promise. You broke your promise. You are against your promise."

A promise he broke. Vincent sighed and looked outside to where Alice and Simon seemed to be still talking. Simon was showing Alice something on his phone, and she laughed again. His face narrowed as he placed his hand on his hips with tensing shoulders. He wanted to punch Simon’s face. As Vincent stared intensely, his thoughts went back to when he made the promise to be with her. They would be together according to his promise. He didn't know what he was thinking, making such a pointless promise because he would not keep that promise. He broke it and hoped he would fix his mistake, but he was too late. Alice was moving on, and it was right in front of his eyes.

I always took promises seriously and hated it when other people did not. When I was eight years old, my father and I went to visit my grandfather, a recluse who lived in the woods. During our one week stay, I became friends with a boy called Tommy who was a son to a lumberjack. On our second last he had promised to teach me how to chop wood. I'd snuck out my grandfather's axe and was at the designated location in time but he didn't show. I decided to teach myself and ended up cutting the side of my foot with the tip of the axe. It wasn't too deep but it hurt like hell. As I limped towards grandfather's cabin, blood pouring out of my wounded foot, I swore to never break a promise. In my young