Torn Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

The tremendous world I have inside my head. But how free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times rather be torn to pieces than retain it in me or bury it. That, indeed, is why I am here, that is quite clear to me.

The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.

If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow.

To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.

We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known.

I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that others.

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.

The mask is torn off, while the reality remains

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

I’m torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy.

Rip Torn had, like, lessons in everything he said, and one of them was, "I know that an actor can undermine anything a director tells him to do by making fun of it." And he thought that that's what I did.

Even if our every attempt is a failure, and we bleed and are torn asunder, yet, through all this, we have to preserve our heart - we must assert our Godhead in the midst of all these difficulties.

There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?

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

I don't really want to direct myself, but I'm certainly torn in that direction.

As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond.

Only a smile can make the tears dissapear

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.

As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.

Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?

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

I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.

Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.

Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?

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

Love is meant to LIFT you up, not tear you down. It is meant to strengthen you, not weaken you.

...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.