Life Torn Apart Quotes

#1. Have you ever closed your eyes and listened to the sound of your own mother's voice?

Dana Spiotta

#2. Getting over it/ just means getting around it/ and sometimes/ you gotta go through it/ leave it torn and blasted apart

Shane Koyczan

#3. I was surprised to find myself in tears. Because these women had trusted me to help as a writer, I began to see a way of bringing together two things - writing and activism - that until then had torn me apart in everyday life.

Gloria Steinem

#4. 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

#5. One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#6. 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

#7. I want my life back.
-Dear Blue Sky

Mary Sullivan

#8. What kind of a life could one have, after all, if a family allowed itself to be torn apart-by war, by necessitous circumstances, or a wedge driven into the heart by a crises of trust?

Geraldine Brooks

#9. Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.

Paul Bryant

#10. People want honest, flavourful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare.

Ted Allen

#11. It's a crime, when you think about how little time we get, that a man should ever be bored. When you are lying on your death bead, I expect you regret those weeks wasted more than your worst mistakes.

Joe Abercrombie

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Her life is a wrecked boat torn apart for kindling and set ablaze to send a message to the sky from a deserted beach. From a distance the words spell SAVE ME. The closer the sign the clearer the statement. Turns out it says FUCK YOU.

Merri Lisa Johnson

#15. ...An ethnically heterogeneous society without a unifying hero is bound to be torn apart by internal strife. Only a man capable of bringing about a workable consensus between the diverse people is truly a hero. Such a man has to be a true disciple of peace, unity, solidarity and justice.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#16. The Forest that had been about her all her life, certain as a mountain, was made ashes. The high gable that had stood for two hundred years fallen in ruin. Throvenland was torn apart like smoke on the wind. Nowhere would be safe, ever again.

Joe Abercrombie