Tearing Quotes

227 Tearing quotes by 198 unique authors

I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old… — Joseph Conrad
What happened to your foot?" "I had a little disagreement with an eagle --stupid birds, eagles. He couldn't tell the difference between a hawk and… — David Eddings
Stories heard but not recalled. Letters too. Words filling my head. Fragmenting like artillery shells. Shrapnel, like syllables, flying everywhere. Terrible syllables. Sharp cracked. Traveling… — Mark Z. Danielewski
What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and… — Margaret Atwood
The blessing hands of Christ are like a roof that protects us. But at the same time, they are a gesture of opening up, tearing… — Pope Benedict XVI
To run with the wolf was to run in the shadows, the dark ray of life, survival and instinct. A fierceness that was both proud… — O.R. Melling
When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. …People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they… — Unknown Author
My office is in a building in midtown Chicago. It's an older building, and not in the best of shape, especially since there was that… — Jim Butcher
she glanced down and saw that a glove of blood covered her lower arm from the elbow to the wrist. The arm was throbbing, stiff,… — Cassandra Clare
As Val jumped down onto the litter-strewn concrete after them, she thought how insane it was to follow two people she didn't know into the… — Holly Black
This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to… — Franz Kafka
Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils,… — Francis Bacon
He could feel it immediately when his shoulder snapped - the intense pain of his bones cracking. His skin tightened, as if it could no… — Kami Garcia
A frightening menagerie, my emotions are Too many and varied to number Like creatures they crawl and they fly above Tearing my body asunder. — Maggie Stiefvater
Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun. — Anthony Kiedis
You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing assunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What you thought was… — Rod Serling
And now she was just Gabby, currently staying in a dreamy, magnificent castle in Scotland with a Fae prince who did all kinds of non-nasty,… — Karen Marie Moning
Fire supposed he needed to be there in order to give rousing speeches and lead the charge into the fray, or whatever is was commanders… — Kristin Cashore
Loss of empathy might well be the most enduring and deep-cutting scar of all, the silent blade of an unseen emey, tearing at our hearts… — R A Salvatore
The dowager rose and slipped from her pew. There was the sound of tearing silk as she threw up her arms to embrace her son.… — Eva Ibbotson
Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside. — Steven Herrick
I feel like I am always the one tearing everything up and forever sewing it back together. — Saadat Hasan Manto
Well in case you failed to notice, In case you failed to see, This is my heart bleeding before you, This is me down on… — Jewel
The nation was tearing itself apart over pro-life and pro-choice but completely ignored the problems of the kids who were already here. I mean, no… — Neal Shusterman
What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without… — Patrick Ness

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