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.
again I am torn between the necessity and the impossibility of answering.
Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.
To be human, is to be able to love the unlovable, and hope when things appear hopeless
Another reason abusers don’t want to give up the ‘power’ is that they don’t want to give up the power.
This was my love, her love --torn, damaged, broken, ripped apart and put back together. This was our tattered love.
A comic book in mint condition is an offense against the multiverse. I only collect damaged comics with torn covers and missing pages.
I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
' Torn' is hopeful. It's a book that meets you in your pain and shows you how to move forward with life and in your walk with God.
My heart, always so strong in the past, was like the fishnet stockings that clung to my legs—torn, shredded, and full of gaping holes.
Walden is the report of a man torn by two powerful and opposing drives – the desire to enjoy the world and the urge to set the world straight.
I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well, a contradiction I never figured out.
We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known
A friend is he who can feel your heart's beating and dance with it when it is joyful, cry with it when it is torn, and inspire when it is in need.
Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then torn them up.
The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.
My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.
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.
My heart no longer felt as if it belonged to me. It now felt as it had been stolen, torn from my chest by someone who wanted no part of it.
The roof was torn off the gym. God's way of telling the jocks that they'd better remember who's really charge.
