Torn Quotes

522 quotes by 446 authors

The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered… — Michael Chabon
A society that doesn't know any longer how to observe every death with proper rituals, that does not know that death is not the end,… — Marina Warner
I believe the poor fierce-eyed child had figured out that with a mere fifty dollars in her purse she might somehow reach Broadway or Hollywood… — Vladimir Nabokov
Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when… — Rumi
I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy. — Leo Tolstoy
They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves. — Neal Shusterman
Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests… — J. G. Ballard
You can't put something together again unless you've torn it apart first. — Steven Brust
..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… — Paul Laurence Dunbar
People move because of the wear and tear of anxiety. Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will… — Yann Martel
Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Itâ€™s hard not to jump out instead of waiting to be found. Itâ€™s hard to be alone so long and then hear someone come around.… — Kay Ryan
From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn… — Sherwood Anderson
If God had not permitted the people of Jerusalem to be torn asunder and driven them from the land, but had let them keep it… — Martin Luther
But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her… — Pearl S. Buck
Thunder rumbled. My heart beat faster. I turned away from Evernight for the last time and looked back at the flower as it trembled upon… — Claudia Gray
I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn… — Saint Augustine
One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
How I will cherish you then, you grief-torn nights! Had I only received you, inconsolable sisters, on more abject knees, only buried myself with more… — Rainer Maria Rilke

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