Torn Apart Quotes:

Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together what the other words have torn apart.

- Linda Hogan

topic: Law, Together, Torn Apart, Back Together

When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to retain a little of the old life, end up torn apart by their own memories.

- Paulo Coelho

source: Paulo Coelho (2015). “Warrior of the Light -”, p.19, Booklassic

topic: Memories, Torn Apart, Littles

One world, one mankind cannot exist in the face of six, four or even two scales of values: We shall be torn apart by this disparity of rhythm, this disparity of vibrations.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

source: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Anne Applebaum (2007). “The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation”, Harper Perennial Modern Classics

topic: Wisdom, Two, Torn Apart, Disparity

Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?

- Daniel Handler

topic: Animal, Sound, Torn Apart, Olaf, Count Olaf

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.

- Anne Tyler

source: Anne Tyler (1990). “Anne Tyler: Four Complete Novels”, Avenel

topic: Mother, Thinking, Torn Apart, Jolly

Vengeous scowled. 'As you can see,' he said, 'you are vastly outnumbered.' I usually am.' Your situation has become quite untenable.' It usually does.' You are within moments of being swarmed by these filthy creatures of undeath and torn apart in a maelstrom of pain and fury.' Skulduggery paused. 'Okay, that's a new one on me.

- Derek Landy

topic: Pain, Doe, Torn Apart, Maelstrom, Skulduggery Pleasant

Social solidarities are torn apart, furthering the retreat into orbits of the private that undermine those spaces that nurture non-commodified knowledge, values, critical exchange and civic literacy.

- Henry Giroux

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Space, Torn Apart, Retreat

If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.

- Edgar Allan Poe

topic: Soul, Torn Apart, Havens

They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves.

- Neal Shusterman

source: Neal Shusterman (2012). “Full Tilt”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

topic: Reflection, Self, Torn Apart

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.

- Kurt Cobain

source: Interview with Frank Andrick, www.artistwd.com.

topic: Song, Writing, Torn Apart

There's an amount of love that can never - no matter what - be taken away or torn apart, no matter the situation. There are certain people who you will always, always love.

- Selena Gomez

source: "Exclusive Interview: Selena Gomez". Interview with Neha Gahdhi, www.seventeen.com. May 3, 2011.

topic: Taken, People, Torn Apart

The subject for a lot of non-fiction is very emotional, but if you read it, it's the most boring, dry stuff. I wanted 'Torn Apart' to be extremely accessible and readable.

- James Patterson

topic: Emotional, Fiction, Torn Apart, Non Fiction

I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.

- James Nachtwey

topic: Photography, Events, Forgotten, Remorseless, Torn Apart

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

- Jon Stewart

source: "The Daily Show". www.imdb.com. 1996 - ....

topic: Death, People, Religion, False Hope, Irreligion

Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling deteriorates into neurotic life-damaging passions.

- Erich Fromm

topic: Passion, Thinking, Two, Rational Thought, Torn Apart

...being torn apart by far too many loyalties that could not possibly live together in the same brain.

- Jeff Lindsay

source: Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.181, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

topic: Loyalty, Brain, Together, Torn Apart

I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope it will serve to remind us that history's deepest tragedies concern not the great protagonists who set events in motion but the countless ordinary people who are caught up in those events and torn apart by their remorseless fury. I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.

- James Nachtwey

topic: Memories, People, Tragedy, Collective Memory, Remorseless

The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself.

- Robert Walser

source: Robert Walser (2013). “The Walk”, p.10, Profile Books

topic: Book, Writing, Might, Torn Apart

Saigon, U.S.A. aptly documents the birth of a new American community, uprooted in the aftermath of war and forever torn apart by the wounds of the past, yet one capable of healing against all odds. An engrossing yet succinct film that captures not only a major incident in Vietnamese American life, but also an important chapter of American history. A profound film that manages to confront us with the deepest sorrow while allowing us to be hopeful about what it means to be human.

- Nguyen Qui Duc

topic: War, Mean, Healing, Against All Odds, What It Means To Be Human

Zuniga Hides the Evidence ... Like the craven coward he is, Markos Zuniga, rising young star of the Democrats, has now removed the page at Daily Kos where he wrote "Screw them" about the four Americans torn apart and hung from a bridge in Fallujah.

- Charles Foster Johnson

topic: Stars, Bridges, Coward, Torn Apart

There is Pakistan's relationship with Afghanistan which will also be a very tricky issue in the coming years. Then there is a large part of Pakistan which is being torn apart from American drone attacks. The country is being invaded constantly by a terrorist superpower. Again, this is not a small problem.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: www.dawn.com

topic: Country, Small Problems, Years, Torn Apart

Each act of unfaithfulness toward our inner being is a blot on our souls. If we continue to be unfaithful, our souls are eventually torn apart and we slowly bleed to death.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Soul, Unfaithful, Torn, Unfaithfulness, Torn Apart

Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Nietzsche (2006). “Nietzsche: 'On the Genealogy of Morality' and Other Writings Student Edition”, p.57, Cambridge University Press

topic: Adventure, Men, Despair, Homesickness, Torn Apart

Coition is a slight attack of apoplexy. For man gushes forth from man, and is separated by being torn apart with a kind of blow.

- Democritus

topic: Blow, Men, Kind, Torn Apart

Anything that's really good, everybody wants to put their hands on. The multimedia puts their hands on it and everything happens that makes it global. Then people forget the roots of it and people forget why they care about it, and then it gets torn apart and turns so commercial that you don't even know what the essence of this art form is even about.

- Nas

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Art, Hands, Essence, Multimedia, Torn Apart

But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics. When you see what can happen to a page or a junior congressman, it passes on in a very real way, not in a history-class sense, that reality of what political power really is, .. Who are we to impose this emotional albatross on public servants? As a nation, we pretend to elect our leaders. It seems unjust to make them a special class to suffer for our sins over wrongheaded laws, or pay a continuing emotional price for securing their future careers.

- Leon Kass

topic: Real, Emotional, Law, Future Careers, Ptsd

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.

- Linda Colley

source: Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.53, Yale University Press

topic: War, Expansion, Fundamentals, Torn Apart, British History

Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving states of being degenerate into deathly specters of themselves. Solitude split off from community is no longer a rich and fulfilling experience of inwardness; now it becomes loneliness, a terrible isolation. Community split off from solitude is no longer a nurturing network of relationships; now it becomes a crowd, an alienating buzz of too many people and too much noise.

- Parker J. Palmer

topic: Loneliness, Opposites, Giving, Torn Apart

I came away from the forums with a profound concern about the highly addictive and destructive nature of methamphetamine. Families are torn apart, lives are destroyed and treatment is difficult to get.

- Greg Walden

topic: Profound, Treatment, Forums, Methamphetamine, Torn Apart

This is the way I want to die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song.

- Regina Spektor

topic: Song, Play, Different, Torn Apart

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 bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Bridges, Hatred, Division, Peacemaking, Torn Apart

The Greeks believed that once there were no male and female, that all souls were one. Then the souls were torn apart, male and female. The Greeks thought that when you found the other half of your soul, your soul mate, that it would be your perfect lover But I think if you find your other half, you would be too much alike to be lovers, but you would still be soul mates.

- Laurell K. Hamilton

topic: Thinking, Perfect, Greek, Perfect Lover, Torn Apart

For 179 years [The Book of Mormon] has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other religious history – perhaps like no other book in any religious history- and still it stands.” Jeffrey R. Holland

- Jeffrey R. Holland

topic: Religious, Book, Years, Famous Book, Examining

Count yourself lucky. I watched my entire family as they were eaten alive by the very pack of animals you have downstairs in your house with your child. The blood of my parents flowed from their bodies through the floorboards and drenched me while I lay in terror of being torn apart by them. I was only a year older than your child when it happened. My parents gave their lives for mine and I watched as they gave them. So you’ll have to excuse me if I have a hard time thinking good of any animal except those who are dead or caged. (Angelia)

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

topic: Children, Hard Times, Animal, Thinking Good, Torn Apart

My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ.

- Sinead O'Connor

topic: Jesus, Children, Names, Torn Apart

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 temporal because of familiarity.

- Saint Augustine

source: Saint Augustine (1998). “The Confessions”, p.151, OUP Oxford

topic: Long, Soul, Doe, Torn Apart

New York is such a competitive place; it tears people apart. People come here and, if they can't make it in the first month, they get torn apart and they have to go back to where they came from. I don't think that's terribly healthy.

- Moby

source: "Moby Discusses His ISSUEs". Interview With Nell Alk, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2009.

topic: New York, Thinking, People, Torn Apart

The middle way is still driving on the wrong side of the road; it still permits the killing of the fox for pleasure. One cannot kill half a fox. Like Monty Python parrot, a fox torn apart by hounds remains dead, deceased and off its perch for ever. Before the fox has been dispatched - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly - it will have suffered the agonies of the pursuit by animals four times its size and four times its strength. The middle way is a compromise that still seriously compromises the welfare of the fox.

- Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison

topic: Hunting, Animal, Python, Middle Way, Driving On

Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.

- Charles Lindbergh

topic: Space, Flying, Yardsticks, Great Aviation, Torn Apart

The sciences have sworn among themselves an inviolable partnership; it is almost impossible to separate them, for they would rather suffer than be torn apart; and if anyone persists in doing so, he gets for his trouble only imperfect and confused fragments. Yet they do not arrive all together, but they hold each other by the hand so that they follow one another in a natural order which it is dangerous to change, because they refuse to enter in any other way where they are called. ...

- Marin Mersenne

topic: Confused, Science, Hands, Torn Apart

We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all.

- Albert Camus

source: Albert Camus (1967). “Lyrical and critical”, Hamish Hamilton Ltd

topic: Meaningful, Hope, Men, Torn Apart

All these people that you meet or I meet, there's not a prayer in hell that they're ever going to run for office or major office because if they're that smart, they're also smart enough to know they don't want to take everything that they've built up and have it torn apart by a sensationalized media that's so hungry for any kind of salacious detail that they'll make that the emphasis of the person's life. And then all of sudden, 50, 60 years of hard work and accomplishment go out the window.

- Mitch Albom

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Running, Prayer, Smart, Torn Apart

We can't stand any more! We don't want any more of what we've had to put up with for eight years and many years prior. The country we know and love is being torn apart and rebuilt in ways that we don't want, and the Republican Party doesn't even seem to care about that.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Country, Party, Love Is, Torn Apart

Love and charity share the same root word (caritas). How is that possible, when everything in our recent history suggest they cannot coexist, that they are antiethical, that if you put the two of them together in a sack they would bite and scratch and scream, until one of them is torn apart?

- Nick Hornby

topic: Two, Roots, Together, Torn Apart

In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb, The third big war will begin when the big city is burning

- Nostradamus

topic: Brother, War, Cities, City Of God, Torn Apart

Love does not terrify me. But the going away of it does. I have been made terribly aware of how everything can be wrenched away from you and your life torn apart. If I had known very secure nights all my life, if I had never seen or felt the fear of being tortured or deported or blown up into a million pieces, then I would not fear it.

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Night, Going Away, Doe, Torn Apart

How can one talk in a classical language about a child who's torn apart in an explosion in the market near his school? People in Iraq don't talk about their joys, their problems, and the destruction of the country in literary diction.

- Hassan Blasim

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Country, Children, School, Torn Apart

Love is a hard rock between two people and can't be torn apart

- Lillian Gish

topic: Valentines Day, Flower, Love Is, Torn Apart, Hard Rock

Souls bound together can't be forever torn apart by distance and neither by death.

- Patti Callahan Henry

topic: Distance, Forever, Soul, Torn Apart

Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.

- John Berger

topic: Loss, Space, Together, Torn Apart

The fragile weave of natural sound is being torn apart by our seemingly boundless need to conquer the environment rather than to find a way to abide in consonance with it.

- Bernie Krause

source: "A great silence is spreading over the natural worl" by John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2012.

topic: Sound, Needs, Way, Consonance, Torn Apart