Top 94 Torn Between Quotes

#1. It may have been my youth that forged my heart but it is my adulthood that defines me now." ~quote by Roe'vaash in "Then'diel's HEART

K. Farrell St. Germain

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#2. You're torn between wanting to be closer and wanting to push me away," he said. "So I vote for closer. I'll always vote for closer.

Martina Boone

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#3. Waking, dreaming. She felt as if a woman torn between two lovers - one of them calm, and sweet, and still and good, and the other magnificent, stone-muscled and taciturn and bold enough to seize her and pull her close to him in the darkness of the night.

Gord Sellar

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#4. I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting till he rests in me, Drawn upward by the choice that makes him free, Leave him in tragic loneliness to choose, With all in life to win or all to lose.

Edwin Markham

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#5. Torn between violence and disillusionment, I seem to myself a terrorist who, going out in the street to perpetrate some outrage, stops on the way to consult Ecclesiastes or Epictetus.

Emil Cioran

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#6. Again I am torn between the necessity and the impossibility of answering.

Italo Calvino

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#7. Madame Semele seemed torn between her desire to threaten and to cajole, and the emotions chased each other so nakedly across her face that she seemed almost to vibrate with the effort of keeping them in check.

Neil Gaiman

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#8. America has always been torn between the ideal and the real, between noble goals and inevitable compromises. So was Jefferson. In his head and in his heart, as in the nation itself, the perfect warred with the good, the intellectual with the visceral.

Jon Meacham

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#9. Brave, stupid girl, Thorne muttered. He sank back down to the floor, his expression torn between relief and increased distress.

Marissa Meyer

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#10. We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other. We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence. We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.

Andy Rooney

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#11. Yeah, it's so popular it's almost legal. The customers are torn between needing someone and wanting to be alone at the same time, which has probably always been the name of that particular game, even before we had the neuroelectronics to enable them to have it both ways.

William Gibson

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#12. I felt torn
Between living and dying
Between sleeping and surviving.

Stacy Morris

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#13. 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

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#14. Christ can rid you of inner conflict. Man without God is always torn between two urges. His nature prompts him to do wrong, and his conscience urges him to do right.

Billy Graham

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#15. I'm torn between wanting the absolute best for my daughter and being jealous that she has it so much better than I ever did.

Jill Smokler

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#16. 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?

Jodi Picoult

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#17. I am torn between the beauty of the natural world, which you see all around us, and the idea that some dumb tornado could blow a telephone pole onto my sweet Camaro.

Werner Herzog

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#18. My heart ached inside me, torn between wanting to stop and wishing the would go on forever

Maggie Stiefvater

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#19. I was torn between anger and amusement.

Ashley Gardner

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#20. That's so her. You know, torn between Big Ideas and a party. She's always been that way.

Claire Messud

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#21. My prayers and dreams are wrapped up together, vague and contradictory. "Let me leave my mark in the world," I say to the air around me. I don't want to feel so invisible, yet I'm torn between wishing to move away from this place and wanting it to be me and I it.

Laurel Corona

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#22. Torn between obsessive insecurity and proselytizing zeal, between the requirements of Europe and the temptations of Asia, the Russian Empire always had a role in the European equilibrium but was never emotionally a part of it.

Henry Kissinger

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#23. Twelve men in Forelli gold galloped past in pursuit, so fast I barely caught a glimpse. I edged out, torn between crying out to them and hesitating to interfere in a chase. But as I stepped forward, I knew that the man at the front was Marcello.

Lisa Tawn Bergren

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#24. The moment Noah came up behind me and kissed the side of my neck, I was torn between leaning into him and skirting away. Every muscle in my body screamed to fall into him.

Katie McGarry

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#25. The way he spoke about Catherine made Theresa hurt for him more than she would have imagined. It wasn't just his voice, but the look on his face before he described her - as if torn between the beauty of his memories and the pain of remembering.

Nicholas Sparks

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#26. Maybe the greatest anger and frustration come not from unemployment or poverty or the lack of a future but from the feeling that you have no culture, because you've been torn between cultures, between incompatible symbols. How can you exist when you don't know where you are?

Muriel Barbery

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#27. I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.

David Levithan

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#28. I'd no particular ambitions beyond being either widely admired or stealthily influential - I was torn between the two.

Karen Joy Fowler

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#29. ... I hate myself for not being able to go downstairs naturally and seek comfort in numbers. I hate myself for having to sit here and be torn between I know not what within me.

Sylvia Plath

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#30. What are you going to do first when we get out of here?"

"Have a bath. What about you?"

"I'm torn between drinking, showering, and pizza."

"You're such a guy you might as well have said 'scratching my balls and getting my prostate examined'.

Eve Dangerfield

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

Cathy Guisewite

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#32. I hadn't been able to trust since the age of four. I was torn between wanting to be cradled and telling the world to go fuck itself, and those were opposite sides of the same coin.

Betsy Lerner

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#33. I know you are reading this poem listening for something, torn between bitterness and hope

Adrienne Rich

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#34. She hesitated, torn between excitement and terror, amazed that she was actually considering it.

Nicholas Sparks

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#35. I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.

E.B. White

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#36. I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well,
a contradiction I never figured out.

Charlotte Eriksson

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#37. For long years I felt torn between the greatest grief and the greatest love. . . . Whenever I attempted to sing of love, it turned to pain. And again, when I tried to sing of pain, it turned to love. Thus were love and pain divided in me.

Franz Schubert

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#38. No matter how I feel about his beliefs,he's the one truly losing here. I knew the risks,but he was just a pawn,torn between so many playing an invisible game.

Victoria Aveyard

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#39. Have you ever been torn between two impossibilities and knew in your heart that no matter which way you went or which path you chose that you were doomed to unhappiness?

Maya Banks

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#40. If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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#41. You're torn between wanting to fill in all the spaces and knowing that's really going to screw up the screenplay. And yet, how are you going to communicate it to people who really don't understand the process?

Robert Towne

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#42. I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.

Ian Goldin

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#43. The American Indian, once proud and free, is torn now between White and tribal values; between the politics and language of the White man and his own historic culture. His problems, sharpened by years of defeat and exploitation, neglect and inadequate effort, will take many years to overcome.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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#44. Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour ... the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn, bewildered, foolhardy soul.

Dorothy Parker

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#45. It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!

Arthur Conan Doyle

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#46. Nobody knew what it was like to be torn between what it meant to be human and what it meant to be Pack better than me.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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#47. The scientific study of the vital relationship between infants and their mothers was started by upper-class Englishmen who were torn from their families as young boys to be sent off to boarding schools, where they were raised in regimented same-sex settings.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

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#48. She would've been torn between acting cool and nonchalant and wanting to geek out over the experience.

Hugh Howey

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#49. I stared at him, torn between wanting to laugh and to punch him in the face

Jennifer L. Armentrout

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#50. A pang of deep longing ripples through me. I'm torn between my promise to send Aydan to the Abyss and my need to keep him safe. The opposing forces fragment what remains of my mind, breaking me down once again.

Christine Fonseca

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#51. She was torn between the impulse to run and the urge to curl up like a pill bug, close her eyes, tuck her head beneath her arms, and play the game of since-I-can't-see-monsters-monsters-can't-see-me.

Holly Black

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#52. Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.

E.B. White

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#53. She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude.

Bill Bryson

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#54. WHEN YOU'RE TRYING SOMETHING NEW,
YOU'RE TORN BETWEEN
ANTICIPATING A DELIGHTFUL SURPRISE
AND THINKING YOU'RE A FOOL TO
IGNORE WHAT YOU KNOW YOU LIKE.

Jenny Holzer

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#55. If you are a woman, you might feel torn between logical agreement and emotional resistance. Why? It seems like a simpler solution to blame men for the pay gap than to engineer your own bridge to higher pay.

Warren Farrell

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#56. Because I was playing Idi Amin, who dealt with the colonisation issue, I became aware of this internalised conflict of what it means to be torn between cultures, what it means to be taken over by other cultures.

Forest Whitaker

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#57. Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.

Carl Sandburg

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#58. I'm torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy.

Charles M. Schulz

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#59. That strange, twisted, torn love.
That conflict between what your heart knows is right and what your mind is told is right.

David Levithan

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#60. A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.

Susan Cheever

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#61. As human beings, we are always torn between individual freedom and the ability of choose our actions, and the need for at least enough social structure so that anarchy, chaos, and warlordery - or the war of all against all - can be avoided.

Margaret Atwood

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#62. Ou always have to choose between the path of needles and the path of pins. When a dress is torn, you know, you can just pin it up, or you can take the time to sew it together. That's what it means. The quick and easy way or the painful way that works.

Rosamund Hodge

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#63. We are being torn apart between the avidity for knowing and the despair of having known. The goad will not renounce its sting and we our hope.

Rene Char

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#64. In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.

Octavio Paz

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#65. I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

Robertson Davies

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#66. Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in his old age and seems torn between a fear they will betray him into sentimentality and a resigned acceptance that a man can't be ironic all the time.

Angela Carter

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#67. I know there is a moment when sound slips down the torn lining of itself into silence, is carried unheard and secret in its own pocket. But the crimson birds could find no such escape, no means of slipping beyond themselves between the cracks of color and song to a white undiscovered silence.

Janet Frame

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

John F. Kennedy

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#69. Edward was dead. The magnitude of the news reverberated through me, thickening the air. His suffering was over. Yet what had he left behind? An England torn between Catholic and Protestant.

Ella March Chase

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#70. Rahel's "list" was an attempt to order chaos. She revised it constantly, torn forever between love and duty. It was by no means a true gauge of her feelings.

Arundhati Roy

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#71. I am constantly torn between the attitude of the conscientious journalist who is a recorder and interpreter of the facts and of the creative artist who often is necessarily at poetic odds with the literal facts.

W. Eugene Smith

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#72. I am torn between the freedom of this adventure and the benefits of civilization despite its constraints.

Sara Sheridan

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#73. 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.

Paulo Coelho

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#74. Hammer and tongs! I am so torn between rage and joy, that if I do not burst, it will be a marvel!

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#75. I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy.

Bono

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#76. With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.

Maurice Jarre

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#77. Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe; so that he is torn in pieces between the two, without a possibility of its ever being otherwise.

William Hazlitt

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#78. American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

Katherine Dunn

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#79. Spellbound

My heart is torn between two worlds,
Your love for me always unfurls.
I dream of you no matter where I am
Will this spell ever end?

S.L. Ross

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#80. A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.

Khaled Hosseini

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#81. I'm torn between none of your business and kiss my ass.

Elle Todd

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#82. Rather, it was the manshape that held them there, their necks craned, torn between the promise of doom and the disappointment of the ordinary.

Colum McCann

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

Diana Gabaldon

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#84. The space between the next two buildings was crowded with four torn bodies, limbs shredded from torsos, intestines strewn like party streamers. Suddenly one of the torsos jerked into the darkened alley beyond, dragged by something hidden in shadow.

James Rollins

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#85. We all rush through life torn between a desire for the future and a weariness of the present. But he who devotes his time to his own needs, who plans out every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears for tomorrow. How

Seneca.

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#86. There were torn between wanting to look back and wanting to exist absolutely in the new life they'd created

Cristina Henriquez

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#87. I feel like the squirrels that so often run in front of our car
& then stand paralyzed in the forward crunch of the tires
i'm torn between the compulsion to run
& the urge to stand still & hope the danger will pass

Koren Zailckas

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#88. People are torn between the pathetic safety of not knowing, and the desire to know.

Lawrence Thornton

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#89. A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious emotion ... A race whose typical member is eternally torn between a passion for righteousness and a desire to get on in the world.

Samuel Eliot Morison

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#90. ...Marx was constrained to think within a horizon torn between the aleatory of the Encounter and the necessity of the Revolution.

Louis Althusser

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#91. 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

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#92. I was torn between wanting to rush out of this moment, toward that more, and wanting to stay in it, living in a state of constant anticipation and constant safety.

Maggie Stiefvater

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#93. ...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

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

Francoise Sagan

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