My heart shattered. My world shattered — Richelle Mead
They tore out my heart and stomped that sucker flat. — Lewis Grizzard
O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again! — Thomas Hardy
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
A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended. — Ian McEwan
Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin. — Bryant H. McGill
Once upon a time I was falling in love, now I'm only falling apart. — Bonnie Tyler
We're changing our ways, taking different roads, and love will tear us apart again. — Ian Curtis
When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death. — Dennis Quaid
My brain's gone, my soul's worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein operated on. — Eminem
As God is my witness, he is broken in half! — Jim Ross
I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it. — Rumi
Some things just can't be put back together. Some things can never be fixed. Two broken pieces can't make a lot of anything anymore. But at least he had the broken pieces. — Jamie Ford
Short Torn Apart Quotes
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart. — Haruki Murakami
When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again. — Bryant H. McGill
A house divided against itself cannot stand. — English Proverbs
How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole? — Lauren Oliver
May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in. — Mother Teresa
The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us. — Quentin Reynolds
I am a collection of dismantled almosts. — Anne Sexton
The one that embraces a lot cannot keep it together — Spanish Proverbs
I Just Got So Emo That I Just Fell Apart!! — Gerard Way
Torn Apart Image Quotes
Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion. — Jon Stewart
Be strong enough to stand alone, be yourself enough to stand apart, but be wise enough to stand together when the time comes.
Feeling Torn Quotes
Is it not enough that we are torn from our country and friends, to toil for your luxury and lust of gain? Must every tender feeling be likewise sacrificed to your avarice? — Olaudah Equiano
One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. — W. E. B. Du Bois
I feel bad because I haven't been able to say anything to the fans to let them know why I've been absent. I'm torn as I'm quite private. I'm not feeling well. I'm having some health issues. So please keep me in your prayers. — Avril Lavigne
One small crack does not mean you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn't fall apart.
I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude. — Albert Camus
The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. — T. S. Eliot
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
Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin.
On "Tonight" I think I was torn dreadfully between writing what I wanted to write, but keeping it in a style that would follow up what I had just done. That's where I feel I was untrue to myself as an artist . . . that album and, to a lesser extent, "Never Let Me Down." — David Bowie
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 be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I'm all out o faith, this is how I feel. I'm cold and I am shamed lying naked on the floor. Illusions never change into something real. I'm wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn. You're a little late, I'm already torn. — Natalie Imbruglia
Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark." "Nat Parson's a gobshite." Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite. — Joanne Harris
Being Torn Quotes
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
In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder. — Fulton J. Sheen
If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. — E.B. White
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
However often the thread may be torn out of your hands, you must develop enough patience to wind it up again and again. — Walter Gropius
One small crack does not mean you are broken, it means you were put to the test and you didn't fall apart.
Over his career, Buteyko would be censured by medical critics; he’d be physically attacked and, at one point, have his laboratory torn up. But he pressed on. By the 1980s, he had published more than 50 scientific papers and the Soviet Ministry of Health had. — James Nestor
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. — Henry Ward Beecher
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
In the act of worship itself, the experience of liberation becomes a constituent of the community's being . . . It is the power of God's Spirit invading the lives of the people, "building them up where they are torn down and propping them up on every leaning side". — James H. Cone
Tearing Apart Quotes
Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart. — Joyce Carol Oates
When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low. When resentment rides high, but emotion won't grow...and we're changing our ways, taking different roads. Love will tear us apart. — Ian Curtis
While countless Americans are pulling together to lend a helping hand, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pointing fingers in a shameless effort to tear us apart. — Ken Mehlman
One small crack does not mean you are broken, it means that you were put to test and you didn't fall apart.
This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security. — Henry A. Kissinger
Too often they don't realize what they have until it's gone. ...they're too stubborn to say, 'Sorry, I was wrong' they hurt the ones closest to their hearts, and we let the most foolish things tear us apart — Marilyn Monroe
Gonna be a twister to blow everything down That ain't got the faith to stand its ground Blow away the dreams that tear you apart Blow away the dreams that break your heart Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted. — Bruce Springsteen
Never be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along.
Some kind of settlement in Kashmir is crucial for both India and Pakistan. It's also tearing India apart with horrible atrocities in the region which is controlled by Indian armed forces. This is feeding right back into society even in the domain of elementary civil rights. — Noam Chomsky
Remember, conflict doesn’t always mean we have to fight against something and tear it apart.... Conflict can also mean we’re fighting for something to make it even better and stronger than it’s ever been. — Lysa TerKeurst
A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master. — Elizabeth Gilbert
If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing. In fact, most of my work is concerned with destroying—or at least deconstructing—conventional ideas of beauty, of the generic appeal of the beautiful, glamorous, bourgeois woman. Fashion fosters clichés of beauty, but I want to tear them apart. — Miuccia Prada
Family Apart Quotes
Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven. — Rose of Lima
I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British. — Maajid Nawaz
I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters. — Joaquin Phoenix
One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that our were put to the test and you didn't fall apart ~Linda Poindexter
Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them. — Mark Pryor
There are members - very, very close and dear members - of my family - I'm talking immediate family - who simply don't speak to me anymore and haven't done so for years. My marriage fell apart. — Maajid Nawaz
And now we're apart and you're just some stranger who knows all my secrets and all my family members and all my quirks and flaws and it doesn't make sense. — Gaby Dunn
I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work. — Lee Iacocca
The world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That cannot be,” said Machi. “You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies. — Chinua Achebe
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common. — Sam Shepard
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
If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry. — Edgar Allan Poe
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
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
Whenever someone calls me a Pollyanna, I consider it to be the highest of compliments. This courageous girl finds a community that has been torn apart with hate, fear, and pain and brings it love, courage and healing. Isn't that what our world today needs more than anything? — Joe Tye
Step by step, heart to heart, left right left. We all fall down like toy soldiers. Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win. — Eminem
A 'social justice' society is a conflict which locks beneficiaries and victims alike in a struggle without end. It becomes a society torn apart by resentment over the wealth of capitalists. — Hans F. Sennholz
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
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
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
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
Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks. — Charles Lindbergh
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
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
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
Love is a hard rock between two people and can't be torn apart — Lillian Gish
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
All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart. — Barack Obama
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
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
Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart. — John Berger
I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men. — Sharon Horgan
...being torn apart by far too many loyalties that could not possibly live together in the same brain. — Jeff Lindsay
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
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
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
This is the way I wanna die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song. — Regina Spektor
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
Good news is not news. Bad news sells. Confrontation sells. And that's what the press is always looking for. I'm not bragging, but I have the highest job-approval rating of any public official in the city. And I've had it consistently. The approval rating for the police department is 70 percent. This notion that stop-and-frisk has torn the community apart is false. — Raymond Kelly
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
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
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
It wouldn't bring her back. I know. Trust me, I do. And I would have done far worse, he says, if I'd thought there was a way to bring Regina back. I would have traded places. I would have sold souls. I would have torn this world apart. I would have done anything, broken any rule, just to bring her back. — V. E. Schwab
Souls bound together can't be forever torn apart by distance and neither by death. — Patti Callahan Henry
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
What should really be happening is a revolution. The system should be torn apart by the people and banks shouldn't be allowed to do what they do, and giant corporations shouldn't be allowed to run the world to the ground the way they're doing. But that's not happening for whatever reason. — Michael Shannon
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
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
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
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