1. “Parents kill more dreams than anybody.” – Spike Lee
2. “Don’t waste your energy worrying about a family that doesn’t worry about you. It’s their fault if they make the choice to miss out on the beauty of your children and the love your family could share. Focus on those who show you they care through both their words and actions. Those are the people worth your energy.” – Anonymous
3. “Family problems kill your happiness.” – Anonymous
4. “Family is supposed to be our safe haven, but very often it is the place where we find the deepest heartaches.” – Anonymous
5. “Letting go hurts, but it’s part of the healing process.” – Anonymous
6. “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
7. “Any problem—big or small—within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn’t listening.” – Anonymous
8. “Sometimes, when something breaks, it’s better not to mend it.” – Anonymous
9. “Isn’t it sad when even your own family doesn’t really know who you are.” – Anonymous
10. “Honestly, my family issues are the one thing that gets to me, but they have made me so much stronger than I could’ve hoped for.” – Anonymous
11. “A torn family can knit back together with a little love.” – Anonymous
12. “It’s so sad that even people closely related by blood can betray each other.” – Anonymous
13. “Family problems come in all shapes and sizes. Some are short-lived and easily managed, while others are more chronic and difficult to handle.” – Anonymous
14. “Holding a family together in the wake of a breakup requires tenacity and a lot of love.” – Anonymous
15. “Being family is determined more by behavior than blood.” – Anonymous
16. “I watched as my family tree crumbled apart, leaving me as its only branch.” – Anonymous
17. “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.” – C. Joybell C.
18. “Family isn’t defined only by the last names or by blood. It’s defined by commitment and by love. It means showing up when they need it most. It means having each other’s backs. It means choosing to love each other even on those days when you struggle to like each other. It means never giving up on each other.” – Anonymous
19. “Sadness is when everything you do reminds you of your family, but they are far away.” – Anonymous
20. “Sometimes, when the people you love hurt you the most, it’s better to stay quiet. Because if your love wasn’t enough, do you think your words will matter?” – Anonymous
21. “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 souffles.” – Alan Robert Neal
22. “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
23. “A child that’s being abused by its parents doesn’t stop loving its parents. It stops loving itself.” – Anonymous
24. “Here’s to the kids who are tired of going through the same family problems over and over again.” – Anonymous
25. “If you have a happy family, then you are lucky. Feel grateful that you were blessed with these special ones in your life.” – Anonymous
26. “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.” – Anonymous
27. “People always talk about family being the most important thing in life, but it’s usually family that hurts you the most deeply and painfully.” – Anonymous
28. “Sometimes blood isn’t thicker than water and family will cross you quicker than strangers.” – Anonymous
29. “Just because someone is ‘family’ doesn’t mean you have to tolerate lies, chaos, drama, manipulation, and disrespect.” – Anonymous
30. “I wish that I could move away from my broken family where love ceases to exist, so I don’t turn out like one of them.” – Anonymous
31. “Sometimes you have to give up on people, not because you don’t care, but because they don’t.” – Anonymous
32. “A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.” – Mary Karr
33. “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
34. “Absolutely no one can screw you over quite as well as members of your own family.” – Anonymous
35. “Sometimes, I’d rather hang out with my friends than my family because I feel more loved and understood.” – Anonymous
36. “As your kids grow, they may forget what you said but won’t forget how you made them feel.” – Kevin Heath
37. “Everybody’s family has problems.” – Anonymous
38. “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
39. “Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn’t a place you can be happy anymore. It’s hard, but it’s true.” – Anonymous
40. “Feeling envy to see the happy family hang out together while I’m alone in here.” – Anonymous
41. “Welcome to our big, old, happy, dysfunctional family. You are now in, and whether you like it or not, you can never get out.” – Hayley Williams
42. “I hate that my family can always make me cry, but if I say one harmful thing, I feel like a monster.” – Anonymous
43. “Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.” – George Eliot
44. “Many teenagers would like to have emotional outlet whenever they experience family problems.” – Anonymous
45. “All happy families are alike. Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” –
46. “Nothing can rip this family apart. We’re glued together with love.” – Anonymous
47. “Families don’t have to match. You don’t have to look like someone else to love them.” – Leigh Anne Tuohy
48. “Never doubt that you’re a vital part of this family.” – Anonymous
49. “You can shed tears and follow by shedding your old life.” – Anonymous
50. “Today, this family is stronger than yesterday.” – Anonymous
51. “Relationships are living things, and some have short lifespans, while others have long ones. Guess this one was a shortie and not a longie.” – Anonymous
52. “Family means we’ll get through this together.” – Anonymous
53. “Strength comes from family when we support each other.” – Anonymous
54. “This is my family. I found it, all on my own. It’s little, and broken, but still good. Yeah, still good.” – Lil’ O
55. “I hate the term ‘broken family’ to describe divorces. When my parents divorced, they didn’t ‘break’ the family. They fixed it. Their marriage was what was broken.” – Anonymous
56. “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
57. “Sadness is having a dysfunctional family.” – Anonymous
58. “Do you ever just want to pack up and leave, out of the blue, without saying goodbye to anyone and start a new life?” – Anonymous
59. “Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.” – Jerry B. Jenkins
60. “A million words would not bring you back. I know because I tried. Neither would a million tears, I know because I cried.” – Anonymous
61. “Sometimes you have to accept the fact that certain things will never go back to how they used to be.” – Anonymous
62. “I think my family might actually be happy if I wasn’t here. Or at least, hate each other a little less. I think I’m the reason my family is broken.” – Anonymous
63. “Breaking up with a friend, boyfriend, or girlfriend is one thing, and there’s a lot of advice out there for doing it, but what about a family break-up?” – Anonymous
64. “It hurts the most when your own family betrays you.” – Anonymous
65. “In a broken nest, there are whole eggs.” – Proverb
66. “No one can break my heart like my father did.” – Anonymous
67. “I know every family has its problems, but I admire those that stick together.” – Anonymous
68. “I wonder why I feel I am treated like an enemy in a place where I am supposed to be welcome.” – Anonymous
69. “I feel like anyone who’s ever said the words ‘your parents must be proud’ obviously have some deep-rooted family issues.” – Anonymous
70. “When you’re truly loved, you know it.” – Anonymous
71. “In our family portrait, we look pretty happy. We look pretty normal. Let’s go back to that. In our family portrait, we look pretty happy. Let’s play pretend, act like it goes naturally.” – Anonymous
72. “Sometimes it makes me sad that I didn’t get to have one family for my entire life.” – Isabel Gillies
73. “It’s very sad when members of the same family do not talk with each other. The children suffer from the adult ego. Cousins miss the wonderful opportunity to be together, and all due to a bruised adult ego. Stop getting offended. Reunite with your family members. One day, your imaginary conflict will all come to an end with or without you. Don’t wait until it’s too late.” – Anonymous
74. “In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.” – Anonymous
75. “I turn to a life of crime ’cause I came from a broken family.” – Shakur
76. “There is no such thing as the perfect family. Every family is unique with its own combination of strengths and weaknesses.” – Anonymous
77. “The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.” – Mario Puzo
78. “Burdens and opposition will always be there. What is really needed is a clear solid path towards problem resolution and then being mutually encouraged as a family.” – Anonymous
79. “No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?” – Anonymous
