Albert Einstein
Physicist
"If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905."
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Torn
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John F. Kennedy
Politician
"Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office."
Diana Gabaldon
Author
"Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither."
Denis Johnson
Author, Poet
"We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that"
Franz Kafka
Writer
"The tremendous world I have inside my head. But how free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times rather be torn to pieces than retain it in me or bury it. That, indeed, is why I am here, that is quite clear to me."
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"We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known."
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"I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that others."
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"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."
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"...it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking on the necessity of death."
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"Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them."
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"Even if our every attempt is a failure, and we bleed and are torn asunder, yet, through all this, we have to preserve our heart - we must assert our Godhead in the midst of all these difficulties."
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"Only a smile can make the tears dissapear"
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"Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?"
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