Torn Quotes

522 quotes by 435 authors

Everything is always a story, but the loveliest ones are those that get written and are not torn up and are taken to a friend… — Janet Frame
Don't die on me," she ordered. "You are not dying on me." "Yes, ma'am." He felt light-headed, but she was about the most beautiful thing… — Rick Riordan
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I want to hear raucous music, to see faces, to brush against bodies, to drink fiery Benedictine. Beautiful women and handsome men arouse fierce desires… — Anais Nin
I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are exciting. Even… — Anne Carson
I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn't be… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
This was nonsense, he thought. The need of her was a physical thing, like the thirsty of a sailor becalmed for weeks on the sea.… — Diana Gabaldon
Your heart is the beacon, your heart is the storm. Dare to embrace it; you'll never be torn. — Vanna Bonta
Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death? — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a… — Iain Pears
I could become a nun even if I am a non-believer. I'll learn to fake it like Nick did with me. I will minister the… — Rachel Cohn
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… — Henri Nouwen
He thought of the jungle, already regrowing around him to cover the scars they had created. He thought of the tiger, killing to eat. Was… — Karl Marlantes
I hung my head, and I felt someone, Fang, gather me gently to him. My cheek rested on his shoulder, and my silent tears soaked… — James Patterson
As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds. — Jodi Picoult
The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits. — Dean Koontz
...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… — Charlotte Bronte
here was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing… — Daphne du Maurier
You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a… — Mahatma Gandhi
The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the… — Saint Augustine

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