Torn Quotes

Rock... is the expression of elemental passions... In the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath the elemental force of the universe.

Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is never cast down.

I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men.

yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the torn petals strew the garden plot; And there's but common greenness after that.

I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else

When Jesus died on the cross the veil in the temple was torn from top to bottom so that big sinners like me might fit through.

I’m torn. I want an ‘R’ (rating) because we can get a lot of cool scenes into it, but then I like the idea of younger girls being able to see it.

It's very disheartening to encounter a fearful twenty-one year old. They haven't earned the right to be that afraid. It's not like we're living in war-torn Bosnia or something.

they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach.

A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.

Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.

It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.

I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.

Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.

[On men:] I'm torn between wanting to have one and wanting to be one.

There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.

The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.

You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.

He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.

Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark." "Nat Parson's a gobshite." Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite.

A fundamental reason why Britain was not torn apart by civil war after 1688 was that its inhabitants' aggression was channelled so regularly and so remorsely into war and imperial expansion abroad.

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.

The mask is torn off, while the reality remains

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

I was tired of hanging on, taking the torn pieces to make something whole with them.

Every step that produces a single job for a currently unemployed European should be taken. Every centimetre of red tape that puts someone out of work must be torn up.

You think we're a family,' Cody said, turning back. 'You think we're some jolly, situation-comedy family when we're in particles, torn apart, torn all over the place, and our mother was a witch.

Even where love has run thin the child's soul musters strength... the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.

The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise.

Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.

During those formative times, I really didn't know what was going on, and I was sort of torn in a thousand different directions with how I felt about what I was doing.

I always know that I am where I am supposed to be. I don't feel torn and I think that is really important.

When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.

The moment the game (AL Pennant versus the Twins) was over I sprinted for the dugout. The fans were pouring onto the field. If they'd caught me they'd have torn my uniform into shreds for souvenirs.

...it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking on the necessity of death.

I hold the view that death is rather like changing one's clothes when they are torn and old. It is not an end in itself. Yet death is unpredictable-you do not know when and howT it will take place.

That strange, twisted, torn love. That conflict between what your heart knows is right and what your mind is told is right.

Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate.

The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.

Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired in a well of selfpity and pain.

A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.

It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.

In the tiny torn up pieces of his mind he's irresistible too.

each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.

Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.

Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated.

All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.