Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

This aphorism riffs on the Beatitudes (“Blessed are…”), replacing spiritual virtue with “crackedness”—damage, imperfection, or eccentricity. The punchline suggests that flaws can be apertures: vulnerability, nonconformity, or life’s breaks may allow insight, empathy, or creativity to enter. Read this way, the line offers a consoling inversion of shame, reframing what looks like weakness as a condition for illumination. Its enduring appeal comes from that paradoxical blend of humor and uplift, though it is often circulated more as a modern proverb than as a traceable Marx quip.