Torn Quotes

Torn Quote of the day

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.

..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.

In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.

A man's eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.

These decrees of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth.

Is it not enough that we are torn from our country and friends, to toil for your luxury and lust of gain? Must every tender feeling be likewise sacrificed to your avarice?

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.

[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself.

I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.

When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace.

However often the thread may be torn out of your hands, you must develop enough patience to wind it up again and again.

My brain's gone, my soul's worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein operated on.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source.

This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.

If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.

I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

[Seeing an ornately chained Native American for the first time] What Eden have they torn you from?

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.

A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.

Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.

That's so her. You know, torn between Big Ideas and a party. She's always been that way.

The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.

Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've had some really bad parrot bites.

One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming to fill a gap in the drawing.

Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together what the other words have torn apart.

We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

The so-called right to privacy, as it were, is no longer a right inasmuch as it is now a privilege, to be enjoyed until it is torn away at a moment’s notice.

Oh, how with more than dreams the soul is torn, ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes.

Step by step, heart to heart, left right left. We all fall down like toy soldiers. Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win.

I became a big Kings fan, and then later on my hometown of Ottawa got a team, so then I was very, very torn. I just love both of those teams very much.

…I hate myself for not being able to go downstairs naturally and seek comfort in numbers. I hate myself for having to sit here and be torn between I know not what within me.

A 'social justice' society is a conflict which locks beneficiaries and victims alike in a struggle without end. It becomes a society torn apart by resentment over the wealth of capitalists.

O Sultan, my master, if my clothes are ripped and torn it is because your dogs with claws are allowed to tear me.

The goal is to live with God like composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces.

Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.

We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.

The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.

The fragile weave of natural sound is being torn apart by our seemingly boundless need to conquer the environment rather than to find a way to abide in consonance with it.

I am torn in two but I will conquer myself.

At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos.

Wolves ate even mighty hunters, for there was no honor or code among predators, and everyone's guts steam the same way when torn open on a cold night.